The Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, French prosecutors, and the Nigerian government are all investigating allegations that a subsidiary of the U.S. company Halliburton paid millions of dollars in bribes to Nigerian officials during the 1990s, when Vice President Dick Cheney was the chief executive of Halliburton.The editorial also notes that Halliburton has already agreed to reimburse the Defense Department $33.6 million in overcharges for services in Iraq and Kuwait. This doesn't include the $61 million in possibly excess charges for fuel imported to Iraq.
Meanwhile, comes this from Reuters for February 13.
Two ex-Halliburton employees told US Democratic congressmen that vice-president Dick Cheney's old energy company "routinely overcharged" for work it did for the US military, the congressmen said today. ...The link for this story came via Daily News Online.
The two ex-employees, who contacted Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who has been critical of Halliburton, worked for the Texas firm's procurement office in Kuwait. ...
Waxman and another Democrat, John Dingell of Michigan, wrote about the "whistleblowers" in a letter to the Defence Contract Audit Agency, which is already looking into whether one of the company's subsidiaries overcharged for fuel it took into Iraq and for meals served to US troops in the region.
Examples of wasteful spending given by the ex-employees ranged from leasing ordinary vehicles for $7,500 a month to seeking embroidered towels at a cost of $7.50 each when ordinary ones would have cost about a third of the price.
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