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12/5 GOP Corruption Continues:
http://halliburtonwatch.org/news/whistleblower_hearings_denied.html
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| halliburtonwatch.org/news/whistleblower_hearings_denied.html org) -- Five former Halliburt on employees and one former executive of a Halliburton subcontractor des cribe egregious examples of abuse involving Halliburtons Iraq contracts. letter written by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), these whist leblowers describe instances where Halliburton employees would abandon o r torch new trucks -- worth $80,000 -- if they acquired a flat tire or o ther minor mechanical problems. Halliburton would subsequently purchase new trucks with US taxpayer dollars. The former employees also described repeated instances of theft involving both Halliburton and Army personnel. One employee complained to Hallibu rton's KBR chief, Randy Harl, about the contracting abuse, but two weeks later he was fired. Another former employee said Halliburton purchased soda for $45 per case and laundry bags for $100 each. Employees billed the government for work even when they sat around and di d nothing all day. These employees spent weeks in Iraq with virtually no thing to do, but were instructed by Halliburton to bill the government f or 12 hours per day for seven days of work. Halliburton also billed the government $1 million to house 100 employees for three months at a Kuwaiti hotel. Those costs could have been dramati cally lower if tents, instead of a hotel, were used to house the employe es. But a former employee said Haliburton's "corporate culture is one of intimidation and fear." Consequently, any vocal criticism of over-charg ing US taxpayers is met with scorn and indignation. Halliburton is paid a fee by the government of one to three percent of it s costs for all purchases it makes. So, the company earns a higher fee i f it illegally inflates its costs. Waxman's letter was written to the ch airman of the US House Committee on Government Reform, Tom Davis (R-VA ), after Davis refused requests by Democrats to hear the testimony of th e former Halliburton workers. |