Bunny Greenhouse, a former Army Corps of Engineers official, blew the whistle on a controversial deal that awarded KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, a massive contract in Iraq without competition. She faced retaliation, discrimination and a booby trap that injured her, but won a settlement in 2011.
Enron, the Houston-based energy trading giant, had blown up in a massive accounting scandal a few years earlier. News of investigations and trials filled the daily newspapers. ... Halliburton ...
Halliburton's KBR held one of the largest contracts given during the Iraq war effort, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP, which was part of the trend of government outsourcing ...
Halliburton's guilty plea and sentence, and the criminal charge announced today against Badalamenti, are part of the ongoing criminal investigation by the Deepwater Horizon Task Force into matters related to the April 2010 Gulf oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon Task Force, based in New Orleans, is supervised by Acting Assistant Attorney ...
Sep 28, 2004THE FACTS. Halliburton's business with the military has grown substantially since Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney took office. The company rose to seventh-largest military contractor in 2003 from 22nd ...
The most recent controversy surrounds the extension of a troop-support contract in the Balkans held by Kellogg, Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary. Bunnatine Greenhouse, the contracting official, objected to the 11-month extension worth an estimated $165 million because she felt it was not justified. She has asked for an independent ...
Jul 7, 2023Engineering and services firm KBR, which was a subsidiary of Houston oil-field services giant Halliburton until 2006, will pay more than $100 million to settle a 2011 lawsuit claiming it defrauded ...
KBR Inc. and Halliburton jointly agreed to pay $177 million in disgorgement of profits relating to those violations. "Today's guilty plea by KBR ends one chapter in the Department's long-running investigation of corruption in the award of $6 billion in construction contracts in Nigeria. This bribery scheme involved both senior foreign ...
Halliburton's $29.2 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week stemmed from a decision by an anonymous whistleblower to report to the company a scheme to secure lucrative contracts in Angola.. After receiving the whistleblower tip, Halliburton disclosed the information to the US Department of Justice, which worked with the SEC to investigate.
Halliburton Co will pay a $559 million fine to end an investigation of its former KBR Inc unit if the U.S. government approves the settlement, the largest penalty against a U.S. company for ...