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with separate telephone lines, computers, printers, and copiers; all I

needed to keep CGS running. We were cranking out proposals left
and right on the weekend and after hours. I started contacting other

colleagues at other firms and began staffing family and friends at those
companies. I understood America makes its money offer of labor and

the temporary staffing business provided the start-up cash to take

CGS to the next level. I ended up making $60,000 the first year in
business from the temporary staffing gigs. The problem with the

staffing business was the pool of people I had to draw from, family
members of my team who were unemployed. I came to find out many

of them were on drugs and had just gotten out of jail. Again, always in
"My help a brother, help a sister program". However, they became a

hassle because they always wanted to get paid before I had gotten paid.
I ended that service and concentrated on determining where my main

contract was going, the same one I had continued to manage
throughout the drama.

The contract was scheduled to end and had been decided that it
would go to METS, Inc. a company who was headquartered in Texas.

This is when I began to understand contracts were wired. METS, Inc.

was close to the Bush administration and METS was picked to receive
this contract.

Michael Davis was the owner of METS, Inc. and he was a
southern boy from Texas and had no clue as to the cutthroat mentality

of Washington, DC. As the deal had been cut by the government, the
TLM group would become subcontractors to METS, Inc. I would join

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