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Indictments, convictions, rewards & let’s make a deal

Posted on: January 30th, 2010 at 10:42 am — by Forseti

Federal fraud case against Kuwaiti company (Agility/PWC) postponed
Atlanta Business Chronicle – by Dave Williams - January 29, 2010
The challenges of serving a federal court summons on a foreign business have led to several delays in the arraignment of a Kuwait-based logistics company charged with defrauding the U.S. military.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Hagy of Atlanta agreed Friday to the latest request for a postponement by lawyers representing The Public Warehousing Co. K.S.C. (PWC) and rescheduled the arraignment for Feb. 8.

PWC is accused of submitting false information to win three contracts to supply food to American troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, and then overbilling the government for the items it delivered. (Read the rest of the story here…)

KBR rapist David Breda sentenced to two years

Posted on: January 29th, 2010 at 1:29 pm — by Ms Sparky

Former Contractor Sentenced to Prison for Iraq Sex Assault

A former civilian defense contractor convicted of sexually assaulting a female co-worker at an Iraqi air base has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.

David Charles Breda Jr. of Pearland received the maximum penalty from U.S. District Judge Gray Miller in Houston on Friday. Miller also ordered the 35-year-old ex-contractor to register as a sex offender and serve a lifetime term of supervised release. (Read the rest of the story here…)

Posted in GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, LOGCAP III - KBR, Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment. Tags: David Charles Breda, Judge Gray Miller, KBR Convictions, Rape, Sexual Harassment. 111 Comments »

KBR’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy against rape victims

Posted on: January 29th, 2010 at 8:52 am — by Ms Sparky

"Hear No Evil - See No Evil - Speak No Evil" KBR employees from Left to Right (L) Richard Harsey-Plumber-Camp Harper (C) Rick Solomon-Security Coordinator-Camp Harper (R) Eric Barnhart- Security Manager for T-Sites including Camp Harper (photo allegedly taken by William Risner Feb 2008)

Raped and Drugged at KBR, Woman Says

By CAMERON LANGFORD – Courthouse News Service – January 29, 2010

HOUSTON (CN) – At least two fellow workers drugged, raped and sodomized a paramedic working for Kellogg Brown and Root in Iraq, after KBR failed to warn her about the numerous sexual assaults that KBR employees had inflicted upon other women there, the woman says in a federal complaint.

The plaintiff was hired as a paramedic/medic in July 2007 and after her first assignment in Iraq was assigned to Camp Harper outside of Basra, where she says she was brutalized on Feb. 3, 2008.

She says she began to feel strange after drinking a screwdriver with some of her civilian colleagues after work that night on base. While she was incapacitated, she says William Risner, a KBR employee, led her to his room where Risner and a “special forces agent” identified only as “Jason” raped and sodomized her together, she says. (Read the rest of the story here…)

Defense contractors to DoD – “The taxman is calling; it’s for you”

Posted on: January 28th, 2010 at 9:01 am — by Forseti

Contractors ask DoD to reimburse offshore payroll taxes

By ELISE CASTELLI | Jan 27, 2010
In 2008, Congress passed a law to force contractors to pay payroll taxes for employees who are U.S. citizens working for their offshore subsidiaries. The IRS is collecting more taxes as a result, but much of that new tax revenue is leaving government in the form of higher contract costs for the Defense Department.

Defense contractors have billed the department for more than $140 million in reimbursements for payroll tax expenses they’ve paid since the law was passed, a new Government Accountability Office report says.

And that’s just on five contracts — worth a combined $6 billion — that were reviewed by GAO.

Executives from some of the biggest Defense contractors — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and KBR — told GAO that, before the law was passed, they hired U.S. citizens at their offshore subsidiaries as a way to lower their costs and remain competitive. The companies say they only use the offshore subsidiaries to hire employees to perform work overseas. (Read the rest of the story here…)

Posted in GOV. CONTRACTORS, Huffington Post, KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR, Politics, Reports & Investigations, Working Overseas. Tags: Boeing, David Isenberg*, General Dynamics, Government Accountability Office, IRS, KBR, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman. 2 Comments »

KBR employees not sure if they can sleep on company time or not

Posted on: January 27th, 2010 at 12:56 pm — by Ms Sparky

Sometimes KBR just makes it so damn easy to highlight the blatant ineptitude that would be KBR LOGCAP management. Below is an email sent out today to 1000′s of KBR employees from Patricia Murphy KBR HR manager.

Just a quick explanation first. Many KBR employees must go to Entry Check Points (ECP’s) daily to pick up their Subcontract Workers(SCW’s)/Third Country Nationals(TCN’s) and Local Iraqi employees to escort them onto the Camps/Bases where they work. Evidently at this Entry Check Point (ECP), there is a whole lot of time spent waiting. (Read the rest of the story here…)

Posted in KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR. Tags: Employee Issues-KBR. 22 Comments »

ITT employee (formerly KBR) Luis Draco killed in Iraq

Posted on: January 27th, 2010 at 10:54 am — by Ms Sparky

Luis Draco

Luis Draco formerly KBR IT and currently ITT recently died at the hands of cowardly terrorists. Cowards who lob mortars and rockets (aka Indirect Fire-IDF) into camps congested with unarmed civilians. I lost a friend this way in the Green Zone. I can’t think of anything else so cowardly! C3 Warhorse is located approximately 35-45 miles northeast of Baghdad on Baquba Airfield.

Here’s the email sent out announcing the Memorial (Read the rest of the story here…)

Posted in CONTRACTOR DEATHS, GOV. CONTRACTORS, LOGCAP III - KBR. Tags: Employee Issues-KBR, Luis Draco. 5 Comments »

DoJ finds bowling for contractors more lucrative than bowling for dollars

Posted on: January 26th, 2010 at 5:57 am — by Ms Sparky

Looks like the long arm of the law is finally reaching out and bitch slapping some of the contracting cronies and culprits who believe the law does not apply to them. All I have to say is, “IT’S ABOUT TIME!”

The Department of Justice (DoJ) seems to be getting serious about enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Last year’s record breaking settlement with Halliburton and KBR to the tune of $579 million appears to have been only the beginning. Last week the DoJ unsealed indictments against 22 high ranking individuals working for undisclosed (in the indictments) Defense contractors and then followed up with an indictment for one of their very own undercover operatives, Richard Bistrong, who helped them sting the first 22 alleged wrong doers. (Read the rest of the story here…)