In a press release by Pace Environmental Law Review to analyze and discusse aspects of the ongoing KBR Burn Pit Litigation. The litigation was renamed “In re KBR, Inc., Burn Pit Litigation” by the Multidistrict Litigation Panel (“MDL”) upon request of plaintiffs. See J.P.M.L. Transfer Order, No. 2083 (Oct. 16, 2009). an emerging toxic tort in the United States. The litigation is in […]
DynCorp International LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, protests the award of a task order to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR), of Houston, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1J-14-R-0086, which was issued by the Department of the Army under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP IV) contract, for support services for U.S. […]
In its latest report, the inspector general found that the U.S. military continued to build a $14.7 million warehouse after it knew it wasn’t needed, echoing an earlier investigation into an unused $25 million HQ. Unlike many buildings commissioned by the U.S. in Afghanistan, the new military warehouse facility in Kandahar was well built, an inspector […]
A former military contractor who ran two Kuwaiti companies during the Iraq War was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for paying a $15,000 bribe to a lieutenant in the Army National Guard in exchange for the award of a contract. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and […]
KBR Inc. took a hit in an ongoing False Claims Act suit from the federal government Thursday when a Texas federal judge ordered the company to hand over an internal investigation report on alleged kickbacks at the center of the case on the grounds it had waived attorney-client privilege of the document. Obliging the government’s […]