Kerry aide tapped for security role

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002 | 9:52 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp., jostling for a piece of the information-technology windfall expected from the creation of the federal homeland security department, has hired a senior adviser from Sen. John F. Kerry to lobby for the software giant.

Thomas Richey, a former Coast Guard officer, was named Microsoft's federal director of homeland security, the company announced Wednesday. Working in Microsoft's offices in Washington. Richey will stump for the company's interests as the government builds and integrates computer systems for the $38 billion Department of Homeland Security.

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