Lawyers try to force Army contractor exec to be deposed in suit
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An executive of an Army contractor that has been sued for wrongful death in federal court can't have it both ways, say attorneys seeking to compel his deposition.
He can't assert on a newspaper editorial page that his company -- KBR -- had nothing to do with the electrocution death of a soldier in the shower in Iraq, and then claim he has no knowledge of the incident.
Attorneys who represent the parents of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth filed a motion in federal court yesterday asking a judge to order William C. Bodie, KBR interim president for government and infrastructure, to testify in the case.
Mr. Bodie wrote a rebuttal piece in the Post-Gazette earlier this month, claiming that KBR had nothing to do with Sgt. Maseth's death at Radwaniyah Palace in Baghdad.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09118/965982-54.stmAlso kudos to my Senator Bob Casey who's been instrumental in helping the Maseth's mother pursue this case.