A mere one day after Wilson left the House of Representatives in 2009, she signed a contract with Sandia National Laboratories, a New Mexico-based lab that works on maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal…

Also known as SNL, the U.S. government owns the lab and funds it with taxpayer dollars. However, a private contractor called the Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiarity of Lockheed Martin, manages and operates the facility. Wilson went on to establish contracts with three other nuclear facilities: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Nevada National Security Site. In total, these contracts were worth $450,000 between 2009 and 2011.

However, a 2013 investigation by the by the Department of Energy Inspector General into the administration and management of the consulting agreement could find no documentation of the services she had agreed to provide under those deals. The National Nuclear Security Administration, responsible for the safety and security of America’s nuclear weapons, among other tasks, requested the review.

The contractors in charge of the work at the four nuclear facilities ultimately repaid the almost half a million taxpayer money spent on Wilson’s alleged consulting services. However, Wilson’s company, of which she was the sole employee, kept all of the funds it had already received through the deal — for doing who knows what.