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category: PROMIS Scandal
summary: DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software
  was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale.
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
- DoJ
---

[Donald Carr](/people/donald-carr/) was writing a biography of [Elliot Richardson](/people/elliot-richardson/). He served with [William Bradford Reynolds](/people/william-bradford-reynolds/) in the [Edwin Meese](/people/edwin-meese/) and [Richard Thornburgh](/people/richard-thornburgh/) [Justice Departments](/organizations/department-of-justice/) as a Republican political appointee. In 2005, Carr showed [William Bradford Reynolds](/people/william-bradford-reynolds/) a document dated May 16, 1985, which Reynolds authenticated. This document advised that the [PROMIS](/programs/promis/) software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution.[^1]

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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.