| IRAQ: US Firms Suspected of Bilking Iraq Funds by Farah Stockman, The Boston Globe April 16th, 2006 American contractors swindled hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi funds, but so far there is no way for Iraq's government to recoup the money. |
| IRAQ: Navy Won't File Charges in Iraq Contractor Fracas by Griff Witte and Josh White, The Washington Post March 25th, 2006 Military investigators will not file charges after completing a investigation into an incident in Iraq last May in which a group of Marines alleged they had been fired on by U.S. security contractors. |
| US:Saudi Company Official and Former Halliburton Employee Charged in Kickback Inquiry by James Glanz, The New York Times March 24th, 2006 The United States attorney's office also unsealed charges against a former employee of Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary, who is accused of receiving the kickbacks, which the office said totaled $124,000. |
| IRAQ: Breaking the Silence by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek March 22nd, 2006 A prominent former insider is criticizing the administration’s handling of Iraq’s reconstruction. And there’s more to come. |
| IRAQ: British Companies Making a Fortune out of Iraq Conflict by Robert Verkaik , The Independent March 13th, 2006 A total of 61 British companies are identified as benefiting from at least £1.1bn of contracts and investment in the new Iraq. But that figure is just the tip of the iceberg. |
| IRAQ: The Fatal Divide at the Heart of the Coalition by Max Hastings, The Telegraph March 12th, 2006 US security contractors and regular US soldiers who are evangelical Christians," writes John Geddes, the ex-SAS soldier "see themselves in a crusade against the Muslim hordes. In my view, they're not much different to the Iraqi militiamen and foreign fighters who see themselves at the heart of a jihad against the Christian crusaders." |
| US: Defense Department Reviews Possible Halliburton Overcharges on Katrina Work by Pamela Hess, United Press International March 10th, 2006 A review of KBR's bills to the Navy by the Department of Defense's inspector general for work last year restoring damage by Hurricane Ivan suggest Halliburton subsidiary KBR may be charging the Navy too much in labor. |
| US: Contractor Found Guilty of $3 Million Fraud in Iraq
by Erik Eckholm, The New York Times March 10th, 2006 In the first corporate whistle-blower case to emerge from Iraq, a federal jury in Virginia yesterday found a contractor, Custer Battles L.L.C., guilty of defrauding the United States by filing grossly inflated invoices for work in the chaotic year after the Iraqi invasion. |
| IRAQ: Mystery as Men in Police Uniform Raid Baghdad Firm by Mariam Karouny, Reuters March 8th, 2006 Armed men in police uniform seized dozens of Iraqi private security guards from their firm's compound on Wednesday, police said, but officials contradicted each other over whether they were arrested or kidnapped. |
| US: Contentious Close in Private Security Contractor Whistleblower Case by Andrew Miga, Associated Press March 7th, 2006 |
| US: Private Security Cofounder Denies Bilking Government by John E. Mulligan, The Providence Journal March 7th, 2006 Cofounder Scott Custer says the company, which is facing war-profiteering charges, performed well under dangerous and "extremely difficult" conditions in Iraq. |
| US: Bechtel Contractor Based in Dubai Gets Lucrative U.S. Security Contracts by John Byrne and Ron Brynaert, The Raw Story March 6th, 2006 The revelation that a Dubai-based firm provides security consulting for myriad U.S. operations at home and abroad shows the increasing tendency of the U.S. government to privatize security efforts. |
| US: Arms Dealers Fight for Sales in Asia by Peter Pae, The Los Angeles Times March 6th, 2006 With Pentagon buying likely to slow, firms show off hardware in Singapore. |
| US: Fighting War Profiteering, Truman-Style by Sarah Anderson, Alternet March 6th, 2006 If Rumsfeld hopes to bask in Truman's aura as a military leader, he'd do well to take a stand against the rampant corruption that is occurring on his watch. |
| US: Congressman Gets Prison for Contractor Bribes by Tony Perry, The Los Angeles Times March 5th, 2006 US Congressman 'Duke' Cunningham sentenced to 8 years, 4 months Former congressman took millions in bribes. |
| US: Accountant Testifies for Custer Battles by John E. Mulligan, The Providence Journal March 4th, 2006 Kevin Carter, a Warwick accountant, says he reconciled most of the $12.8 million spent by the company that now stands accused of war profiteering. |
| US: Sometimes, Government is the Answer
by Moshe Adler, The Los Angeles Times March 4th, 2006 Thanks to Halliburton, U.S. taxpayers are getting an expensive lesson in the costs of private contractors. |
| US: Democrats Want Tougher Government Contracting Terms Reuters March 2nd, 2006 Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, a co-sponsor of the new bill, said the legislation would set new standards to "restore integrity to a federal contracting process that has too often been operated in a manner that neither ensures confidence nor that taxpayers get a fair return for what they have paid." |
| UK: UK attacked for Uganda arms deal by Karen Allen, BBC News March 1st, 2006 The UK has failed to act on promises to plug loopholes that allow the sale of arms to countries with poor human rights records, aid agency Oxfam says. It says that military vehicles were sold to Uganda by a South African subsidiary of the UK firm BAE Systems. |
| US: Being Timely Was Key to Halliburton Bonuses by David Ivanovich, The Houston Chronicle February 28th, 2006 Houston's Halliburton Co. earned nearly $100 million from its controversial no-bid contract to repair Iraq's oilfields and import fuel into that violence-torn country, Pentagon records show. |