Defending KBR’s honor; the case of the missing CHU’s and other news
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Army Space and Missile Defense Command Engineer Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes
BIRMINGHAM—A Scottsboro man pleaded guilty today in federal court to accepting bribes when he worked as an engineer with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, and to evading payment of taxes on the bribery income, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Pat Maley and IRS Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigations, Reginael McDaniel announced.
STEVEN EARL BRYANT, 39, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor to being a public official who accepted bribes in relation to Space and Missile Defense Command contracts with private companies that were supposed to provide material for missile defense research. He also pleaded guilty to evading taxes of $33,370 on $110,694 of unreported income for the 2006 calendar year. The charges were brought in a two-count information filed in federal court in May. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.
“Mr. Bryant was a public official with the U.S. Army who was willing to sell his influence in that job in order to enrich himself,” Vance said. “By accepting payments in return for preferential treatment of private contractors, he violated the contracting process and the Army’s trust, and enabled a larger fraud. Protecting the military, and the American taxpayer, from this type fraud is a priority of this Justice Department and my office,” she said. (Click HERE for article)
Behind the media contractors’ veil
Mark Prendergast – July 12, 2010 – When the U.S. military in Afghanistan canceled a media services contract with the Rendon Group last summer, Stars and Stripes, which had assailed Rendon’s analyses of journalists’ work as an affront to press freedom and a Pentagon effort to skew public perception of the war, saw it as a white flag and moved on.
Had journalists here and elsewhere instead pressed on, they might have found more to report with regard to the untold millions of dollars spent yearly on information services provided by contractors like Rendon.
For one, the identities of large companies are sometimes masked in public records with the designation “miscellaneous foreign contractors” – even when they are prominent, registered American firms, their contracts are unclassified, the companies and Pentagon officials are open about what they do, and the contractors have not asked to be shielded from public view. (Click HERE for article)
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Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 9:09 am |
Here is another article on the Anham/KGL fight for the logistics contract:
Rivals go in hard for US logistics contract
Last Updated: July 25. 2010 8:33PM UAE / July 25. 2010 4:33PM GMT Two logistics companies are at loggerheads over a US$2.16 billion (Dh7.9bn) contract to supply US troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan.
ANHAM, the Dubai-based contractor, last weekend said it had won approval from the US government accountability office (GAO) for the contract.
A GAO investigation evaluated a protest made in April from Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport (KGL), which claimed ANHAM did not meet the minimum bidding requirements.
But yesterday, KGL said the lucrative contract was still up for grabs and the US government would accept “amended bids”.
Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 9:31 am |
Thanks for the news Forseti. This IS big news in Kuwait! I’d love to know what exactly is being amended. I hear Anham made unrealistic assumptions in the operational plans and didn’t follow the USG estimates when pricing their bid. Hello Anham. Why else would the USG provide these estimates to all bidders? For your entertainment? LMAO. Between Agility and Anham the laughs and amazement never end.
Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 9:45 am |
Seems KBR’s legal dept. has been busy this week. Mark S. Williams, president of KBR Infrastructure, Government and Power, is a “guest columnist” on Oregon Live. Here is the link to his version of everyone has a right to their own opinion. Feel free to offer your opinion and set him straight, by leaving a comment.
KBR and Qarmat Ali: Army twice cleared Iraqi plant where troops served
As the old saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. Many of the statements and assertions in The Oregonian’s recent editorial about Kellogg, Brown and Root (“Justice for poisoned soldiers,” July 18) are misleading. KBR believes that it must set the record straight.
Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 7:39 pm |
yes you do have a right to voice their opinion
he can’t say anything that would damage their case
Tuesday, July 27th 2010 at 3:15 am |
Here is a link to an interview given by ANHAM’s spokeswoman, Trish Wexler
ANHAM Spokeswoman Grants Live Interview to Al Arabiya on Dismissal of Protest
WASHINGTON, July 26 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Trish Wexler, spokeswoman for ANHAM FZCO, LLC, provided a live interview to Al Arabiya on the recent news that the U.S. Government Accountability Office has dismissed all protests to the selection of ANHAM as “Prime Vendor” to the U.S. Government, providing food and support services for the U.S. Government in Kuwait and Iraq. The following is a summary of the questions and responses, with further detail provided below than time allowed for on air:
You issued a press release last Friday announcing that the U.S. Government Accountability Office dismissed the protest filed by losing bidders for the Prime Vendor contract. What was the basis for this announcement?