Halliburton awarded another $33 million contract for Katrina work

[CottonBear]

Halliburton awarded another $33 million contract for Katrina work
RAW STORY

The Arlington-based Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded a $33.6 million contract Sept. 30 for emergency reconstruction of military bases in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

The Hallibuton subsidiary has come under heavy fire for mismanaging contracts in Iraq. The firm charged U.S. forces $2.64 a gallon for gasoline they purchased for $1.60, and were criticized by Pentagon auditors for billing troops' meals on inflated projections rather than actual meals served.

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The latest $33.6 million contract was awarded after considering 59 bids, and brings KBR's total Katrina deals to $66.1 million. KBR's contracts were awarded under an existing $500 million umbrella deal which was also tapped to build prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

President Bush's former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, who ran the agency from 2001-2003, is now lobbying for Halliburton in Washington.

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Check this out: Allbaugh is now a Halliburton lobbyist in DC. Why does Halliburton even need a lobbyist, much less a former * FEMA director? :eyes:

[wurzel]

1. Halliburton has to be the second biggest scandal in US history.

The biggest being the Iraq war. Bigger than Teapot Dome, Watergate. Yet, as usual, totally ignored by our "Free" Press.

[CottonBear]

2. The scandal is huge but the MSM ignores the story as usual.

Cheney has 3,000% profits but no one (except us) connects the dots. :(