The New York Times

September 4, 2008

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

HOUSTON - Albert J. Stanley, a former executive with a Halliburton subsidiary, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he conspired to pay $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in return for contracts to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas complex.

Mr. Stanley, 65, had been chief ( Read more... )

KBR, Partner in Iraq Contract Sued in Human Trafficking Case

By Dana Hedgpeth

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2008; A13

A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.

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Aug 08 2008 KBR Bans Cell ( Read more... )

Hearing on Electrocution of Troops: Waxman Questions ( Read more... )

By Adel Safty, Special to Gulf News

Published: July 14, 2008, 00:08

Recently unsealed US court records shed light on the inner world of war profiteers. According to the Chicago Tribune, the records show how bribery and kickbacks played a role in securing Iraq war contracts for serving the US military even before the war started.

Four former ( Read more... )

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Pentagon Inspector General Won't Probe KBR Rape

Pentagon's top investigator to resign

By RICHARD LARDNER

The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 2, 2008; 8:10 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight ( Read more... )

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Will the Pentagon correct Major Gen. Jerome Johnson's tainted testimony on the potentially contaminated water KBR provided to the troops? "

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

June 05 , 2008 When Major Gen. Jerome Johnson appeared under oath before a congressional committee last year, he told enough untruths about KBR's work for the military that ( Read more... )

US confirms KBR Nigeria bribes

By Upstream staff

US authorities say they have evidence that an agent used by Halliburton’s former subsidiary KBR did issue bribes to Nigerian officials in connection with a Shell project in that country, according to a filing made by Halliburton to the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) at the end of last month ( Read more... )

AP

Fri May 9, 10:34 PM ET

A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Jamie Leigh Jones filed a federal lawsuit last year, saying she was attacked while working for a Halliburton Co. subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005 ( Read more... )