It's official: the Virginia defense facility run -- on taxpayer dollars -- by one of the central felons in the Duke Cunningham scandal is closing Monday.

The news comes just days after the Pentagon announced it would not renew the contract for the Martinsville-based Foreign Supplier Assessment Center, which was created and sustained largely through earmarks from Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA). Goode received over $90,000 in contributions from Mitchell Wade, who's spilling his guts to federal investigators in an attempt to dodge jail time.

And it's bad news for the burg of Martinsville, an "economically strapped city" which, by the terms of the deal brokered by Goode, will have to repay as much as $500,000 now due to state business development offices because MZM/Athena has broken its promise to hire 150 employees at the FSAC.

As a sad postscript to all this, the Waldo Jacquith blog turned up a video of the FSAC groundbreaking in 2003. The event featured all the clipart-style trappings of red-state patriotism: exhortations to God and country, a local high school Junior ROTC color guard, a Baptist minister -- even an American flag which had flown over the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Military HQ in Iraq.