Halliburton Hired for Storm Cleanup
From the Houston Chronicle
Excerpt: The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina. More
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Justice Department opens Bribery Probe of Halliburton
From the Houston Chronicle
Excerpt: The Justice Department is looking into allegations that a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was involved in payment of $180 million in bribes to win a contract for a natural gas project in Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.
The $4 billion Nigerian liquefied natural gas plant was built in the 1990s by a consortium that included Kellogg, Brown & Root, now known as KBR, during a time when Vice President Dick Cheney headed Halliburton...
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Halliburton Probed over Military Meals
From MSNBC
Excerpt: Halliburton Co. allegedly overcharged more than $16 million for meals at a U.S. military base in Kuwait during the first seven months of last year, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing Pentagon investigators auditing the company's work...
...According to the paper, the latest dispute involves meals served at Camp Arifjan, a large U.S. military base south of Kuwait City. In the e-mail memo that went out Friday, it said that in July alone, a Saudi subcontractor hired by KBR billed for 42,042 meals a day on average but served only 14,053 meals a day, the paper said...
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Halliburton wins contract to build new cells in Guantanamo
From the Miami Herald
Excerpt: Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $9.7 million contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold additional suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said on Friday. The move will expand the high-security prison on the base, where hundreds of such "detainees" from Afghanistan are already being held in 612 small cells.
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