Salvation Revelation

Halliburten Subsidiary KBR Guilty of Bribary, $20 Billion Taxpayer Dollars

Federal investigators have discovered that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburten was involved in a network of “kickbacks, bribes and fraud.”

KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, was caught illegally inflating charges for flying freight into Iraq in support of the war.

Kevin Andre Smoot, a former executive for an air-freight carrier hired by KBR pleaded guilty in federal district court to dispensing bribes and lying to federal investigators. Smoot was a managing director for Eagle Global Logistics Incorporated, a freight carrier that received a subcontract from KBR to ship the freight.

Smoot admitted to handing over bribes, which he called gratuities, to the employees of KBR on 90 occasions between 2002 and 2005.

KBR, previously known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, won a contract priot to the start of the Iraq war. The contract gave KBR the rights to supply the American military with food, fuel, housing and other necessities. The value of the contract soared with the Iraq invasion, and KBR has been paid $20 billion.

The company hired Eagle in a subcontract to fulfill part of that mission, carrying military goods from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Baghdad. But the scheme by the Eagle executives began in November 2003 when a plane operated by a rival carrier, DHL, was struck by a missile and landed in Baghdad with its left wing in flames. The Eagle executives used that incident to charge a fraudulent “war-risk surcharge” of 50 cents for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of freight on its own flights, the papers say.

Between November 2003 and July 2004, Eagle made 379 flights as part of the subcontract, charging some $13.3 million — an amount that included $1.1 million in overcharges. It is not clear whether KBR knew of the overcharging scheme, but the papers say that Mr. Smoot and an Eagle subordinate delivered nearly $34,000 in gratuities to KBR employees “to obtain or reward favorable treatment” in connection with the contract.

According to the papers, the gratuities included “meals, drinks, golf outings, tickets to rodeo events, baseball and football games and other entertainment items.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/washington/21contract.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Imagine that, American citizens willing to sell out America and steal from American Taxpayers for “meals, drinks, golf outings, tickets to rodeo events, baseball and football games and other entertainment items.”