You’ll pay for that & other news
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“This contract will double the size of our company in the next two years and allow us to greatly expand our employee base in the Virginia Beach area,” Luke Hillier, the company’s CEO, said at the time.
So far, however, the reality has been much more modest.
As of Dec. 16, the contracts had generated $177 million in business for ADS.
How can the government set a contract ceiling apparently so out of whack with the business generated? (Click HERE for article)
Mabey & Johnson Holders to Pay Back Dividends Over Kickbacks Paid in Iraq
Aoife White – (Bloomberg) - January 13, 2012 – Mabey & Johnson Ltd.’s owner was ordered by a U.K. court to pay 131,201 pounds ($201,370) in dividends gained after the bridge builder paid kickbacks to win contracts from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government.
Mabey Engineering Holdings Ltd. will repay “sums it received through share dividends derived from contracts won through unlawful conduct,” the Serious Fraud Office said in an e-mailed statement.
Two former directors of the closely held U.K. construction company were found guilty last year of paying more than 420,000 euros ($538,600) to Iraq to win contracts, in violation of United Nations sanctions against the country. (Click HERE for article)
Spanish judge reopens Guantanamo torture probe
Carol Rosenberg – (McClatchy Newspapers) – January 13, 2012 – A Spanish judge on Friday re-launched an investigation into the alleged torture of detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, one day after a British authorities launched a probe into CIA renditions to Libya.
The twin developments demonstrated that while the Obama administration has stuck to its promise not to investigate whether Bush administration officials acted illegally by authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques, other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.
In Madrid, Judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez handed down a 19-page decision Friday in which he said he would seek additional information — medical data, a translation of a Human Rights Watch report, elaboration on material made public by WikiLeaks, and testimony from three senior U.S. military officers who served at Guantanamo — in the case of four released Guantanamo captives who allege they were humiliated and subjected to torture while in U.S. custody.
Ruz said, however, that it would be premature to notify the former U.S. officials named in the former detainees’ complaint that they are under investigation. Those officials include former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and two former Guantanamo commanders, retired Marine Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert and retired Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller. (Click HERE for article)
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