Darleen Druyun Darleen A . Druyun ( born November 7 , 1947 ) is a former United States Air Force civilian official ( Principal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Acquisition ) and Boeing executive . Education . Druyun graduated from Chaminade University of Honolulu and the executive education program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . Appointment . Darleen A . Druyun was Principal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force nominated by George W . Bush . Operation Ill Wind . In 1993 Darleen Druyun was investigated for her involvement in a plan to speed up payments by the Air Force to McDonnell Douglas . Although dozens of other people involved were convicted or discharged , Druyun kept her position . In 2000 Druyun sent the resumes of her daughter , a recent college graduate , and her daughter ' s fiancé , a published PhD Aeronautical Engineer , to Boeing and both were hired . United States Air Force tanker contract controversy . In May 2003 , the United States Air Force announced it would lease 100 KC - 767 tankers to replace the oldest 136 of its KC - 135 s . The 10 year lease would give the USAF the option to purchase the aircraft at the end of the contract . In September 2003 , responding to critics who argued that the lease was vastly more expensive than an outright purchase , the United States Department of Defense announced a revised lease . In November 2003 , the Air Force decided it would lease 20 KC - 767 aircraft and purchase 80 tankers . Buying one KC - 767 outright costs $ 150 million . The contract called for 100 aircraft being purchased or leased at an aggregate price of $ 26b , or $ 260m per plane . Therefore , the contract , if it had been executed , would have forced the DOD to pay Boeing much more money for each plane than it would have had to if the aircraft were purchased individually . After leaving the Air Force in 2003 Druyun took a job with Boeing at an annual salary of $ 250 , 000 . She also received a $ 50 , 000 signing bonus . In December 2003 , the Pentagon announced the project was to be frozen while an investigation of allegations of corruption by Druyun was begun . Druyun pleaded guilty to inflating the price of the contract to favor her future employer and to passing information on the competing Airbus A330 MRTT bid ( from EADS ) . CBS News called it " the biggest Pentagon scandal in 20 years " and said that she pleaded guilty to a felony . In October 2004 , she was sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption , fined $ 5 , 000 , given three years of supervised release and 150 hours of community service . She began her prison term on January 5 , 2005 . She was released from prison on September 30 , 2005 . The ramifications extended to Boeing CFO Michael M . Sears , who was fired from Boeing , and Boeing CEO Phil Condit resigned . On February 18 , 2005 , Sears was sentenced to four months in prison and Boeing ended up paying a $ 615 million fine for their involvement . According to " The Federal Times " , Darleen Druyun will still be receiving a federal pension . Druyun was also found guilty in awarding the initial Small Diameter Bomb contract to Boeing . Donald Rumsfeld stated that he was told that " what she did was acquire a great deal of authority and make a lot of decisions , and there was very little adult supervision " .