---
alias:
- Accumenics Inc.
category: Private Organization
created: 2026-09-22
location: Virginia
summary: Litigation-support software company bought by Earl Brian's Hadron about 1983,
  alleged by Bill Hamilton to have received a 40-million-dollar Justice Department
  contract in October 1987 through the Meese associate James L. Byrnes, who told the
  Bua inquiry he knew nothing of it.
tags:
- Organization
- Accumenics
- Hadron
- PROMIS
- INSLAW
- DOJ
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Accumenics, Inc., a maker of litigation-support software, was acquired by [Hadron](/organizations/hadron/), the company controlled by [Earl Brian](/people/earl-brian/), together with SIMCON Inc., a police-software firm. In the telephone call of April 1983 that [Bill Hamilton](/people/bill-hamilton/) attributed to Hadron's chairman [Dominic Laiti](/people/dominic-laiti/), the purchases were explained as part of a strategy "to become the leading vendor in the United States of software for law enforcement and courts," the ambition behind Laiti's offer to buy [INSLAW](/organizations/inslaw/) and its [PROMIS](/programs/promis/) software.[^1]

Hamilton's affidavit in the INSLAW litigation alleged that [James L. Byrnes](/people/james-l-byrnes/), a deputy assistant attorney general with "close ties to [Meese](/people/edwin-meese/)," "spearheaded the award by DOJ in October 1987 to a Hadron subsidiary of a 40 million dollar computer services contract for litigation support" in the Land and Natural Resources Division. Byrnes told the investigators of the special counsel [Nicholas J. Bua](/people/nicholas-j-bua/) that he had transferred to that division in November 1987, a month after the alleged award, that he was unaware of any such contract and did not know whether one had ever been made, that he had no knowledge of or contact with Hadron, [Simeon](/organizations/simeon/) or Accumenics, and that his relationship with Meese was the ordinary one of a [Department of Justice](/organizations/department-of-justice/) official. Bua's report treats the dollar figure and date as unconfirmed and the Byrnes connection as unsupported. The contract is distinct from [Project Eagle](/programs/project-eagle/), the department's litigation-automation program whose 30-million-dollar systems contract went to Tisoft, Inc., in January 1986, and which INSLAW separately theorized had been intended for Hadron.[^1]

[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, and the department's review of September 27, 1994, on Project Eagle. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport No procurement record of the alleged 1987 award was located.