> Whistleblowers Detail Corruption and Fraud at Halliburton during Senate Hearing
16 February 2005, 18:38
This corruption story broke last summer, way before the election- where were these Senators then?
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the "political slurs." But today, after five months inside Halliburton’s operation in Kuwait, deYoung has radically changed her opinion. "It’s just a gravy train," she said.
– Halliburton employees living in 5-star hotels.
– Purchase of hundreds of high-end SUVs and pickups, loaded with options like CD players, which "most KBR employees do not need."
"We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care."...
"That money could have been used to take care of soldiers," she said.
DeYoung also claims people were paid to do nothing. Mike West says he was one of them. Paid $82,000 a year to be a labor foreman in Iraq, West claims he never had any laborers to supervise. "They said just log 12 hours a day and walk around and look busy," he said. "OK, so we did."
This corruption story broke last summer, way before the election- where were these Senators then?
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the "political slurs." But today, after five months inside Halliburton’s operation in Kuwait, deYoung has radically changed her opinion. "It’s just a gravy train," she said.
– Halliburton employees living in 5-star hotels.
– Purchase of hundreds of high-end SUVs and pickups, loaded with options like CD players, which "most KBR employees do not need."
"We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care."...
"That money could have been used to take care of soldiers," she said.
DeYoung also claims people were paid to do nothing. Mike West says he was one of them. Paid $82,000 a year to be a labor foreman in Iraq, West claims he never had any laborers to supervise. "They said just log 12 hours a day and walk around and look busy," he said. "OK, so we did."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5333896/
This was on MSNBC July 26, 2004- this should have been headline news, it should have rocked the Democratic Convention.