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x-colonels sentenced in military contre’ ise Page 2 of 2 i lanieri testified that O'Hair approved numerous invoices dividing the appropriation of over $8 million among lanieri's company and four smaller companies including Schaller engineering. On Tuesday, Collier denied a request by Schaller to leave prison to attend his daughter's November wedding. Collier said he felt the retired colonel had shown no remorse for manipulating the earmark system. U.S. Attorney Stephen Pressier said Schaller's conduct was a betrayal of his military service. "It is inconsistent with the nobility that comes from being a retired officers of the U.S. Air Force. You have somebody that in his mind thinks that they are above the law," he said. But Albert Oram, Schaliler's attorney, said his client and O'Hair were trying to help airmen and soldiers on the ground by working to obtain earmark funding for high-tech research that would save lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oram said it was something Air Force officials encouraged. Collier disagreed. “The evil of the earmark process is that | don't even know how they come up with the money and the contractor that has the relationship with the congressman then gets the money," he said. What's This? A Associated Press is a wire service at The Associated Press . Recent Posts p Business travel pitched as 6... Bankruptcy judge defers acti... Continental Airlines Inks mo... “Taser Unique Visiort By Regios (Miiona) 2 7 Sign up for the Chart of The Day pes ee t aoe t a { faraazy-june 2009Milorsp | . | Delivered free to your Inbox daily Ne eee . BR Subscribe now! >>