More Annals of Global Greed Inc.
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 »
Posted by Norman Farrell
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.