According to Kit's personal database, what LCDR Joseph Garibaldi told her checked out. Of course there was some information in her database that the LCDR did not mention. Probably because it was more background info in nature...
Kettering was at the academy when Lasiter was. Only Kettering was a senior as Samuel Lasiter was a plebe (freshman), and the two had a long history of competition while at the academy and on their early assignments- Ensign Samuel Lasiter was assigned to the same starship that Lt jg Kettering was. This rivalry was described by one on looker as the talented, self assured, rather arrogant, win at all costs, power junkie aka Kettering versus the equally talented, self assured, team focused, thrill junkie aka Samuel Lasiter. The important side note was that Kettering, as a then LCDR, served on Bajor where he met an ex Fleeter turned governmental bureaucrat. The pencil pusher would later become the current Bajoran Ambassador to the Federation. Kettering would later owe his promotion to Vice Admiral to an influential Federation official, who (you guested it) was the ex fleeter. As the Ambassador from Bajor, he personally advocated the selection of Vice Admiral Kyle Kettering to the post of Commander, 9th Fleet with a promotion to Admiral. So, Kettering was quite possibly indebted to the Bajoran...
Additional research into some of what the young Gariabldi had mentioned about the elder Garibaldi came up interesting as well. It appeared as if there were records of all transfers of materials. All perfectly in order. The exception being that there was nothing to be found about the the materials ever being received. The rules were followed to the letter, except for the last part of the process. Receiving. The number of mid transit transfers from one vessel to another. From one cargo holding area to another, only served to complicate the paper trail. At face value it appeared that Marcus Garibaldi was using the general apathy that existed in Starfleet to cover his tracks. That if he could make the trail complicated enough, sooner or later anyone interested in following up would just give up. It had worked up until now. However, that was not the strangest part. That could be summed up in just two simple questions... 'Just why would someone that has the ability and know how to hide records and cover his trail leave such an obvious paper trail? Was it carelessness or was it cunning?'
Black market materials were nothing new, nor were military personnel making a fortune on stolen government property. But almost always the perpetrators were enlisted personnel or low-ranking officers trying to make a quick credit until they could fulfill their commitment and get out. They also tended to steal directly, or with few middlemen to increase their profit margin. Kettering, though, was a very high-ranking officer, who would have innumerable middlemen who would have to be bribed or paid off. Profit, therefore, seemed an unlikely motive. But there were other reasons to steal military hardware and supplies.
Kit took a closer look at what exactly was going missing.
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