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  • September 2008

    • Ex Halliburton Exec Pleads Guilty to $180M Bribery

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 4, 08 4:04 AM CDT

      Ex Halliburton Exec Pleads Guilty to $180M Bribery

      (Newser) - A fired Halliburton exec has pleaded guilty to bribing Nigerian government officials, the Wall Street Journal reports. Albert Stanley, CEO of KBR when it was a Halliburton subsidiary, faces up to 7 years in jail and a restitution payment of nearly $11 million. Stanley was appointed by Vice President Dick Cheney, and many of the bribes occurred when Cheney still ran Halliburton.  More »

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      Dick Cheney  • Nigeria  • bribery  • oil companies  • bribe  • KBR  • Halliburton

  • August 2008
  • June 2008

    • Army Overseer Ousted After Rejecting Bogus Iraq Bills

      New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 7:54 AM CDT

      Army Overseer Ousted After Rejecting Bogus Iraq Bills

      (Newser) - Did a top Army official lose his job for trying to save the Army money? Charles Smith was ousted from his job after refusing to pay then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $1 billion in charges deemed bogus by Army auditors. “They had a gigantic amount of costs they couldn’t justify,” Smith tells the New York Times . “The money that was going to KBR was money being taken away from the troops, and I wasn’t going to do that.” Smith’s successor coughed up the money. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq contractors  • KBR  • Halliburton  • defense spending

  • June 2007

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