New claims by ex-employees: HALLIBURTON cheating taxpayers

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Others besides Bunnatine Greenhouse have testified that Halliburton, the biggest holder of American rebuilding contracts in Iraq, has deceived the government and cheated taxpayers.

The company denies the claims.

Rory Mayberry, who worked for Halliburton subsidiary KBR from February through April 2004, testified from Iraq, via videotape, to the Democratic Policy Committee in June.

As a food manager at a U.S. military camp, Mayberry said he witnessed KBR employees serving spoiled food to American troops, including items whose expiration date was more than a year old, and food from trucks that had been bombed and shot at. "We were told to go into the trucks and remove the food items and use them after removing the bullets and any shrapnel," Mayberry said.

Halliburton also charged the U.S. government for hundreds of specialty meals prepared for foreign workers from Turkey and the Philippines, Mayberry said. The foreign workers were actually given leftovers from troop meals, Mayberry said....

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[Boomer]

1. I'm shocked!

How about you?

[Bluebear]

2. Flabbergasted at the news, I tell ya!

[KG]

3. also breaking! Bears defecate in the sylvan glade!

[EST]

4. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

[City Lights]

5. What? Cheneyburton is screwing the taxpayers?

That can't be!

[wli]

so is Cheney a trillionaire yet?

[Just Me]

6. This time, as we maintain a record of the fraud and abuse,...

,...we must NOT allow these scum of the earth to get away with a slap.

When we regain some power to impose justice, we MUST prosecute to the full extent of the law.

Period.

[Auntie Bush]

7. Wasn't Halliburton already fined for over-charging the Government

aka as, "The Tax Payers"?

[glitch]

9. Yes. And then they were awarded another fat juicy contract.

As if to say, no hard feelings, nothing has changed.
It should make the people in the Pentagon sick.

[Bluebear]

10. Yes but the fines are chump change for Cheney & his firm

[Rufus T. Firefly]

8. WHAAAAA?

Apologies to Jon Stewart.