Asensio’s book primarily chronicles his successes, but in a chapter called Abusing the Process, in a section
called “Fiends [sic] in High Places: Network Solutions,” he details a notable failure:
“Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL) achieved its fortune on the basis of a government affirmative action contract
that was snatched up by a huge, money-laden defense contractor. The contractor then leveraged this prize many
times over by working the political system, applying a political headlock at the highest levels of the federal
government. …
“In March 1995 McHenry and his partners sold Network Solutions for $48 million to Science Applications
International Corp. (SAIC), a huge, privately owned, astonishingly well-connected defense contractor based in
San Diego.
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