Halliburton Subsidiary Faulted For Hurricane Work

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

Reports of problems with defense contractor KBR Inc. just keep piling up.

The Houston-based company's efforts to repair Navy facilities following Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina were deemed shoddy and substandard, auditors say, prompting one technical adviser to claim that the federal government "certainly paid twice" for many KBR projects because of "design and workmanship deficiencies," according to a report released today by the Defense Department's inspector general.

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KBR awarded sole-source or limited competition subcontracts that overpaid hourly rates to roofers and paid $4.1 million worth of services and meals that should have cost only $1.7 million

The Navy entered into an illegal "cost-plus-percentage-of-cost" contract with KBR, the audit found. As a result, higher costs meant higher profit and KBR was rewarded for "inefficiency and non-economical performance."

KBR was paid nearly all of the contract amounts despite "marginal-to-average performance," the audit found.



Read more: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/06/reports_of_just_keeps_piling.html?hpid=topnews

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And Cheney will make out like a bandit. Obama better ban them from all govt. contracts when he gets in to office, and the AG ought to be looking in to charges against KBR.

[Bob Dobbs]

1. Blatant and cynical corruption.

busholini inc sneers at us while they rob us blind in broad daylight.

Because we are allowing it with our willful ignorance.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "So?" - Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney de Halliburton

[spag68]

3. KBR

I think some of you young smart bloggers should dig a little deeper into KBR. I seem to remember a company owned by the Ladybird Johnson family called Brown and Root. Is it possible that is the BR in KBR?? They had many cost plus contracts in Vietnam.

[mhatrw]

4. War is a Racket. n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Audit Faults KBR's Repairs of Hurricane Damage

Source: Washington Post

Report by Pentagon Inspector General Cites Substandard Work, Overpayments

Efforts by defense contractor KBR to repair hurricane-damaged Navy facilities were deemed shoddy and substandard, and one technical adviser alleged that the federal government "certainly paid twice" for many KBR projects because of "design and workmanship deficiencies," the Pentagon's inspector general reported in an audit released yesterday.

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command gave KBR, then known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, three repair contracts worth $229 million over five years in July 2004, according to the report. At the time, KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton, the Texas energy company whose former chief executive is Vice President Cheney.

After Hurricane Ivan struck the Gulf Coast that September, and Hurricane Katrina a year later, KBR was given a number of tasks. They included removing water-damaged carpet and drywall; applying temporary roofing; removing debris; and building trailer parks for displaced families at naval air stations in Pensacola, Fla., and Gulfport, Miss., the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi and other facilities in the region.

The inspector general reported that its audit of KBR's work found:

The Navy entered into an illegal "cost-plus-percentage-of-cost" contract with the company. Higher costs meant more profit for KBR, which rewarded the company for "inefficiency and non-economical performance," the report said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702672.html?nav=rss_nation

[indepat]

6. Rewarding a crony for inefficiency and non-economical performance, but far too few care about

the massive fraud, waste, and abuse that are the hallmarks of this administration. :D

[mwb970]

7. But the bush cabal was never an "administration".

Legitimate presidents (i.e. the other 42) had administrations. This is a criminal enterprise, a form of organized crime run right out of the White House.

bush and his treasonous thugs are enemies of the state and should be treated as such. America has been under attack from within for eight long years. Where's the pushback?

[Bob Dobbs]

8. Guillotines.

They worked very well in a similar situation.