More Annals of Global Greed Inc.

New York Times by New York Times Editorial | Feb. 14, 2009 (Editorial)

Halliburton and its former KBR subsidiary have agreed to pay $579 million in fines to settle criminal and regulatory charges of having bribed foreign officials to win billions in construction contracts. There may be some taxpayer comfort in the fact that this scandal was rooted in Nigeria, not Iraq, where the Halliburton megacorporation (you know, the one Dick Cheney ran before he became vice president) reaped multibillions as the Bush administration’s ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Africa, Bush Administration, Law Enforcement, Money and Politics
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Posted by: Posted by Norman Farrell - Feb 15, 2009 - 11:58 AM PST
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Edited by: Norman Farrell - Feb 15, 2009 - 11:58 AM PST

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 by Norman Farrell - Feb. 15, 2009

This reports that Halliburton and KBR agreed to pay $579 million in penalties for bribing Nigerian public officials. The NYT reminds that many unanswered questions remain about the companies' practices in Iraq. The newspaper pays rather too little attention to what the answers might be.

The current KBR hierarchy declares that the malefactors are now all gone. Possibly true because at least one worked in Washington for the past 8 years along with his entourage of toadies.

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