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18 Sep 3:05 pm
... Sept. 15, 2009), in 2004, at the age of 19, Jamie Leigh Jones began working as an administrative assistant for Halliburton Company/Kellogg Brown & Root (Halliburton/KBR) in Houston, Texas. On July 21 2005, Jones signed an employment
contract with a subsidiary of Halliburton/KBR to work in Baghdad, Iraq that included the following clause: You . . . agree that you will be
bound by and accept as a condition of your employment ...
9 Apr, 2007 7:21 pm
Halliburton Company announced today that all of its contractual commitments in Iran have been
completed and the company is no longer working in Iran. Halliburton announced in January 2005 it
would... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
12 Feb 11:47 pm
... federal "deferred prosecution agreements" for corporate wrongdoers, I'm now wondering why companies implicated in federal bribery cases don't also face the criminal
prosecution? ... and fees to settle bribery allegations against one of its subsidiaries that operates in Nigeria. Halliburton Company, which until 2007 controlled the Houston, Texas-based KBR (also ... Nigeria's Bonny Island. ... The alleged bribes took place over a decade, between
1994 and 2004. During part of that time, KBR's parent company ...
23 Dec, 2008 7:00 pm
... portion of future stock options granted to senior executives be performance-based; adoption of a pay-for-superior performance standard in company executive compensation plans for senior executives; adoption of a by-law amendment to establish a majority vote standard in director elections; ...
the proposal trended upward at Charles Schwab Corp., from 25.0 percent in 2007 to 28.0 percent in 2008; at Halliburton Company, from 24.4 percent to 32.1 percent; and at Union Pacific Corp., from 29.0 percent ...
13 Dec, 2006 3:41 am
... procedural history. In 2002 a series of shareholder actions were filed against Halliburton, alleging improper accounting on company financial statements during the period when Halliburton's CEO was Dick Cheney, now the vice president of the
United States. The law firms representing three of the four original lead plaintiffs then proposed a quick settlement with Halliburton for just
$6 million. The AMS Fund was the sole dissenter, contending that the settlement was far too cheap; in addition, ...
4 Sep, 2008 9:43 am
... hearing from lawyers about the latest, greatest practice area: "FCPA work," or defense work for companies and individuals threatened by prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act. This morning, ... while Stanley worked for M.W. Kellogg, then part of a company called Dresser Industries. Halliburton acquired Dresser in 1998 and merged M.W. Kellogg ... promoted Stanley to run KBR in 1998. Stanley's guilty plea said the bribes continued until
2004, the year Halliburton fired him. Cheney's tenure ...
13 Mar, 2007 5:39 am
... will avoid paying a fortune in taxes by moving its headquarters from Texas to the Middle East. Houston-based Halliburton, the mega oil
services company formerly led by Vice President Dick Cheney, announced that it will move its corporate offices and top ... of millions of
dollars in U.S. taxes and outraged members of Congress are considering an investigation. The politically connected company has already made
headlines for earning lucrative no-bid government contracts in Iraq and for severely over ...
12 Nov, 2008 10:39 am
... application, which apparently attempts to patent a method for patent-trolling, and got the following response: The application "covers a technique for patenting secret aspects of a
company's business inferred through computer research of publicly available information." The statement adds: "It is important to note that
Halliburton has no intention of applying the technique offensively. Rather, Halliburton intends to
use any ...
26 Jan 5:37 pm
... 20 times higher than the largest previous penalty under the FCPA. Today, according to the WSJ, Halliburton is setting the record for a U.S.
company in a bribery investigation. It's agreed to pay $559 million to the U.S. to ... -2000s. The U.S. investigation has grown from a narrow
focus on that facility to include a broader look at whether Halliburton executives coordinated bids with unnamed competitors involving multiple
construction projects in different countries, according to Halliburton filings ...
12 Feb 8:43 am
... yesterday, Kellogg Brown & Root, an erstwhile subsidiary of Halliburton, pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- the federal law that bans bribery payments overseas. Together, the companies agreed to pay $579 million in fines to ... : suitcases stuffed with cash; accounts in Switzerland
and Monaco; and the like.) Federal authorities had alleged that the companies were part of a joint venture that spent $182 million to bribe Nigerian government officials over a
10-year ...
10 Dec, 2007 5:13 pm
... Says A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. ... says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the
company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her ... recent testimony before Congress, employment lawyer Cathy
Ventrell-Monsees said that Halliburton won more than 80 percent of arbitration proceedings brought against it. In his ...
20 Dec, 2007 5:26 am
... right. While witnesses for the bill showed real-world harms from the system of biased, privatized justice that many companies force on their customers and employees,
opponents offered scarecrow arguments crafted with cherry-picked data from out ... consumers and employees from holding them accountable in court. Recent scandals, including that
surrounding Jaime Leigh Jones and Halliburton, could supply the momentum for lawmakers to act quickly and decisively to protect the public as
they have in the ...
4 Sep, 2008 12:06 pm
... paid about $182 million to consulting companies that then paid bribes to several Nigerian government officials. But the legal woes don't stop there. In investigating
L'Affaire Nigeria, Halliburton disclosed in its second quarter ... certain foreign construction projects, and that such coordination possibly
began as early as the mid-1980s. On the basis of this information, Halliburton and the DOJ have broadened their investigations to determine the
nature and extent of any improper bidding practices ...
3 Jun, 2008 9:36 am
... Energy Services employee to represent him after he suffered a serious back injury while working offshore. The worker was a mechanic / welder. He and three other Halliburton workers were working on a jack-up rig owned by Rowan Companies. They were doing welding work and had called a specialist welding
company called Cajun Cutters in to assist. The welder Cajun Cutters sent to assist did not do his job properly, and as a result, our ...
3 Jun, 2008 9:40 am
... Energy Services employee to represent him after he suffered a serious back injury while working offshore. The worker was a mechanic / welder. He and three other Halliburton workers were working on a jack-up rig owned by Rowan Companies. They were doing welding work and had called a specialist welding
company called Cajun Cutters in to assist. The welder Cajun Cutters sent to assist did not do his job properly, and as a result, our ...
22 Oct, 2008 2:55 pm
... longer-term lower oil and natural gas prices by oil and gas companies can similarly reduce or defer major expenditures given the long-term nature of ... , which could have a
material adverse effect on our revenue and profitability. Halliburton reported its earnings on Monday before the market opened. And while
Chairman and CEO ... a much more serious concern in the Q. We have a few more observations about Halliburton's Q that will only be available to
FootnotedPro subscribers. Other tickers that we'll be ...
27 Apr 12:43 pm
... , Jamie Leigh Jones, sued Halliburton and several subsidiaries in 2005. Halliburton says Jones
signed an agreement that requires all of her claims against the companies stemming from the alleged rape to be resolved through private arbitration. But Jones wants her case ...
on that decision, which was handed down last May; click here for that decision itself. Shortly after the ruling, Halliburton subsidiary KBR
issued a statement saying: KBR in no way condones or tolerates sexual harassment . . . Any ...
25 Jul, 2007 6:31 am
... , 2006 on options granted as rewards for patents.). Shull spoke to a panel at the InsideCounsel Super Conference 2007. Halliburton pays
employees up to $3,000 for each commercialized patent. The company also rewards employees who author "defensive publications" that can serve as
prior art to block other company's inventions from being patented (See my post of Aug. 3, 2005 on Microsoft's goal to produce more patents.).
All incentive ...
14 Nov 11:53 pm
... Air Force veteran and a one-time contractor who served in Iraq are suing military contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., claiming that
the companies exposed them to toxic fumes by burning everything from human remains to tires in massive open- ... going on," said attorney Susan Burke, who represents the men. The
suit names Houston-based companies KBR and Halliburton, as well as the Turkish company ERKA
Ltd. The lawsuit is the latest on behalf of former military members and contract workers who ...
16 Oct, 2004 2:41 pm
The UK Sunday Times reports that an investigation of US-based energy company Halliburton has revealed
that the company violated US trade sanctions against Iran. The corporation once headed by now-Vice President Dick Cheney apparently sold oil
mining equipment to Iran through its off-shore interests in the UK, the Cayman Islands, and Sweden. Halliburton says that its conduct did not
violate
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