Senators Accuse Pentagon of Delay in Recovering Millions 04 May 2009
The Pentagon has done little to collect at least $100 million in overcharges paid in deals arranged by corrupt former officials of Kellogg Brown & Root, the defense contractor, even though the officials admitted much of the wrongdoing years ago, two senators have complained in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. The letter also said that the Army had almost completely failed to move away from the monopolistic nature of the logistics contract that has paid the contractor, now called KBR, $31.3 billion for logistics operations in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
KBR Contracts Are 'Majority' of Fraud Referrals 04 May 2009
Billings from KBR Inc., the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq, constitute the "vast majority" of 32 cases referred by government auditors for criminal investigation, the Pentagon’s top auditor said today. April Stephenson, head of the Pentagon’s contract audit agency, told the Wartime Contracting Commission that in the agency’s history, "I don’t think we are aware of a program, a contract or a contractor that’s had this number" of referrals.
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