WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has been struggling with corruption in Kuwait. Federal prosecutors have been investigating Army officers deployed in Kuwait’s Camp Arifjan suspected of taking bribes in return for contracts. In at least one case, a procurement officer sentenced to jail for corruption was replaced by another who was arrested on the same […]
Houston, Texas — November 15, 2012 — Kellogg, Brown, and Root announced today that the United States has voluntarily dismissed its False Claims Act case it filed against the company. On April 1, 2010, the United States sued KBR for damages claiming that KBR had violated the False Claims Act by billing under LOGCAP III, which is […]
The United States has filed a civil complaint against Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and First Kuwaiti Trading Company for submitting inflated claims for the delivery and installation of trailers to house troops in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. KBR is headquartered in Houston. First Kuwaiti, a KBR subcontractor, is based in […]
The government has intervened in a lawsuit against Fluor Hanford Inc. and its parent company, Fluor Corporation (collectively Fluor), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, the Justice Department announced today. Fluor Hanford, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fluor Corporation, a Texas-based corporation that provides a wide variety of services to government and private customers. The […]
The United States has filed a complaint against a Virginia-based contractor alleging that the company submitted false claims for unqualified security guards under a contract to provide security in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. The company, Triple Canopy Inc. is headquartered in Reston, Va. In June 2009, the Joint Contracting Command in Iraq/Afghanistan (JCC-I/A) […]