Yet More Examples of Halliburton & Subsidiaries Bilking American Taxpayers For Services Never Performed

DailyRead at TrailingEdge Blog follows up on the story of Halliburton/KBR whistleblower McBride's charges about her former company (he found it on Huffington Post from a wire service piece):

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root charged millions to the government for recreational services never provided to U.S. troops in Iraq, including giant tubs of chicken wings and tacos, a widescreen TV, and cheese sticks meant for a military Super Bowl party, according to a federal whistle-blower suit unsealed Friday.

Instead, the suit alleges, KBR used the military's supplies for its own football party.Filed last year in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by former KBR employee Julie McBride, the lawsuit claims the giant defense contractor billed the government for thousands of meals it never served, inflated the number of soldiers using its fitness and Internet centers, and regularly siphoned off great quantities of supplies destined for American soldiers.

McBride was hired by KBR in 2004 as a "morale, welfare and recreation" coordinator at Camp Fallujah, a Marine installation about 35 miles west of Baghdad. She was fired the next year after making several complaints about KBR's accounting practices, the suit says, and was kept under guard until she was escorted to an airplane and flown out of the country.

Halliburton denied McBride's allegations.

I agree with DR: start building the gallows now.

But please, don't give KBR or Halliburton (aka DickCheneyCo) the exclusive no-bid contract to construct them because they'd charge us billions for $30 worth of plywood and rope and - of course - never get the damned gallows finished.