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28 Aug 2008, 2:19 pm
[Guardian] * A Nepalese family is suing Iraq contractor KBR for human trafficking. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 12:09 pm by admin
Such an action would have to be filed in Texas federal court where Halliburton KBR has its corporate headquarters. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 6:42 pm
The examples of the waste, fraud and abuse are legion -- from KBR performing shoddy electrical work in Iraq that has resulted in the electrocution of our military personnel according to Pentagon and Congressional investigators, to the firing of an Army official who dared to refuse a $1 billion payout for questionable charges to the same company. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 3:30 pm
A story was in the news a while back about how female employees of defense contractor KBR in Iraq were forced to arbitrate their claims that they had been gang raped by co-employees while working in Iraq. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 4:47 pm
Perhaps the most horrific example was Jamie Leigh Jones' fight to take her former employer, KBR, to court rather than arbitration for claims of false imprisonment and sexual abuse by coworkers. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 5:04 am
"Chairman Waxman requests additional information about Defense Department and KBR failures to address defective electrical systems throughout Iraq that have... [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 4:22 pm
It tells the sad tale of 12 men from Nepal hired by KBR subcontractor, Daoud & Partners to work in a luxury hotel in Jordan. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 8:01 am
"Just as tax breaks for the military have no enemies (the House voted unanimously on this one), the KBR payroll tax dodge had no friends. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 9:18 am
Plaintiffs Suing KBR Hope to Lift Order Keeping Cases Secret Texas Lawyer Three suits against military contractors in Iraq over the deaths or injuries of civilian truck drivers attacked by Iraqi insurgents in 2004 have been veiled in secrecy for more than two years. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 1:18 am
The decision was appealed by the families of several Halliburton workers who were wounded and killed in Iraq, arguing that Halliburton and its former partner KBR unnecessarily put the group in harm's way. [read post]
30 May 2008, 1:26 am
The suits accuse Halliburton and former subsidiary KBR of knowingly sending a convoy into a dangerous area where six KBR drivers were killed and others wounded in 2004. [read post]
28 May 2008, 8:33 pm
The suits filed by truckers and their families accuse Halliburton and a former subsidiary, KBR Inc., of knowingly sending a convoy into a dangerous area where six KBR drivers were killed and several others wounded on April 9, 2004. [read post]
27 May 2008, 9:02 pm
Also aired are allegations that CACI hired translators who couldn't translate, that KBR supplied soldiers contaminated water, that Blackwater knowingly led unknowing civilian truckers into a combat zone where many died. [read post]
12 May 2008, 9:41 am
Jamie Leigh Jones's tort suit against KBR (and its former parent Halliburton) will, after the pure workplace claims are resolved, go to litigation. [read post]
12 May 2008, 7:50 am
As confirmed by a rape kit, Jones was sexually assaulted while in Iraq working for KBR. [read post]
9 May 2008, 7:05 pm
In September 2007, Army Corps whistleblower Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse testified before the committee regarding her opposition to the multi-billion dollar "no bid" contract awarded to Halliburton/KBR in the run-up to the Iraq war. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 4:26 pm
" Many of the workers got sick and are suing KBR for failing to provide adequate protective gear. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 6:12 pm
(SEII), a KBR shell company, either failed to help them or outright obstructed them. [read post]