Halliburton Refunding $27 Mln for Meals

[cjbuchanan]

Halliburton Co.(NYSE:HAL - news), under close scrutiny for its work in Iraq (news - web sites), has promised to pay $27.4 million to the U.S. military to cover potential overbilling for meals served to troops, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Tuesday.

The planned reimbursement followed a refund to the Army by the Texas-based company last month for $6.3 million after Halliburton admitted its employees took kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040203/bs_nm/energy_halliburton_dc

Now what about the other few Billion?

[arcane1]

1. "overbilling for meals served to troops"

how GOD-DAMNED DESPICABLE can these bastards GET???????


:grr::mad::grr:

[Skittles]

14. they can get a lot lower

and believe me, they will

[arcane1]

15. over-billing for ROTTEN RANCID FOOD

no less! :mad:

[truthisfreedom]

2. haliburton is a cesspool of unpatriotic thieves, beginning with cheney,

whose time at the helm influenced their approach to emptying the nation's coffers at an ever-accelerated rate.

[JuniorPlankton]

3. I am pretty sure they ARE guilty but

they have NOT admitted it yet. And their guilt wasn't established yet.
Boy, I am looking forward to more scrutiny of these *people*.

[onebigbadwulf]

4. isn't CBS playing halliburton is great commercials?

[Fargin Ice Hole]

5. Meals on Steals.

talk about a corrupt corporation.

[yellowcanine]

6. Wait a minute - usually when a contractor overbills U.S. gov

they don't get to pay it back and everything is hunky dory - Particularly if they do it several times and particularly if kickbacks are involved. Better men have gone to jail for war profiteering like this. Wouldn't the kickbacks automatically dictate a criminal investigation?

[Karenina]

7. Very white of them.

And what about the food poisoning?

[mbperrin]

8. Just so! If the food is maggoty and spoiled, it is worth less than

nothing!

Let the Dickster eat randomly selected meals daily from the selection there, and we'll get this cleared up quick!

[K.B.]

11. How the hell do you overcharge by 27 mil for meals served?

Huh??

in the article is says ""Auditors found "discrepancies" that indicated the company had overcharged by more than $16 million for meals at a single military base in Kuwait." "

16 million dollars overcharged for a single base--- holy crap, even if you charged 100 bucks a meal that's 160,000 meals...

It's not like some waitress at Dennys saying "Oh, you're right. You didn't have dessert. I'm sorry, I'll take that off your bill right now."

Aren't these the same messhalls that pentagon auditors have called "dirty"?

Hey, the important thing is that Dick Chaney's stock-options are getting more valuable every day. Right?

[jean]

17. Hey K.B. ~ Welcome! Two days ago NPR reported

Haliburton thought they should overestimate the number of meals because "you never know how many people will show up to eat in a war zone."

Rep. Harry Waxman (D-CA) was interviewed at the end of the report and said Haliburton nearly tripled their estimate, charging for 42,000 meals at a base having 14,000 troops. He's looking into it.

[pacifictiger]

9. hand caught in the cookie jar again

Well, I didn't really steal because I put it back when you found out and I was caught. How about turning your back on those pesky contract oversight requirements so I can have another shot at that cookie jar? Wink wink nod nod.

[pinto]

10. love that: "potential overbilling"............n/t

[metisnation]

12. TAXED

That means that Halliburton with a market cap of about 16 billion was only taxed 15 million in 03' that plus this makes 43 million they have given back you do the math divide the two and you get .0026 for a combined total of .2% tax compared to the 20-20% that most Americans pay for. Time to make them ante up!!!!!!!


:kick:

[0007]

13. Gee! I bet this is cutting into Cheney's desert, 'eh?

[Malva Zebrina]

16. It is a crime what Cheney and Bush enabled in Iraq with their

slaughter.There is no other word to describe it. It is a slaughter and these connected corporations are making money hand over foot on the deaths of children and babies.

This is a crime against all humanity. This should never have been allowed. This is as bad as that which they accuse Saddam of. They have killed thousands on a lie, and their buddies in Halliburton, not satisfied with the ordinary contract , have decided to rip us off additionally.

Disgusted.