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Judged By The Company You Keep

By Diana Rogers

05/21/03: (Information Clearing House) If on the SUSPICION of a terrorist connection any American citizen can be arrested and detained without charge, public disclosure, or legal counsel shouldn’t the same apply to our government? Or more appropriately, how well would you or I fare if we had the following SUSPICIOUS connections?

Awarded $7 Billion-Umbrella (without set limits) US contract for Iraq (2003). Awarded a $9.7 million US contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exclusive logistics provider for US Navy and Army with a 10-yr No Lid and No Cost US contract, already estimated at $830 Million. Paid $2 million by US to reinforce the U.S. embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Awarded $2.2 Billion US contract to support US troops in the Balkans. Awarded US contracts totaling more than $624 Million from October 2000 to March 2003.

Dick Cheney was CEO from 1995-2000. It is reported Mr. Cheney still receives a yearly compensation of $1 million from the company.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030512/bs_nm/energy_halliburton_iraq_dc_1

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0727-02.htm

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2002/501/501p14.htm (Windfall Contracts)

http://www.dyncorp-sucks.com/brownroot.htm

http://biz.yahoo.com/opt/030429/ce709c46c33b7b40da72177a18040194_1.html

http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=5929

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2003/mft03032502.htm

• Recently admitted to paying a $2.4 million BRIBE to a Nigerian government official, in return for tax breaks for their operations in the West African country. The avoided taxes to be paid are estimated to exceed $5 million plus. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=22&u=/ap/20030509/ap_on_bi_ge/halliburton_bribes_3

• Sued and pled guilty to the criminal charges of shipping six pulse neutron generators through Italy to Libya. Fined $1.2 million and will pay $2.61 million in civil penalties. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/articles/halliburtonprimer.html
• Sued and settled asbestos liability in over 300,000 law suits; settled suits with $4 billion cash & stock payment. http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/pubarticleCC.jsp?id=1048296278071
• Investigated for supplying Iraq with oil drilling equipment, which could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/articles/halliburtonprimer.html
• Sued in 2001 for Accounting Fraud and Accounting Practices. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/articles/halliburtonprimer.html

• US GAO (General Accounting Office) found and proved over-billing to US Army in 1997. *
• A ‘2000’ GAO Follow Up to the Over-billing of 1997, found further Inflated charges. *

• Was fined and paid $2 million for fraud to US government (2002). *

DYNCORP– Awarded $50 million dollar (Estimate for first year) US contract to police post Hussein Iraq. Awarded $1 Billion plus US contract for Bosnia. Awarded $60 Million US Navy Contract. Awarded $280 Million PLUS US Air Force contract, $6.5 Million, $300 Million US Contract, $1.5 Billion space command and control US contract, etc.

In March 2003 Dyncorp was officially consolidated with Computer Science Corp., continuing a previous history of joint ventures between both companies.

Dyncorp’s Auditor of Records: Arthur Anderson also of Enron.

Dyncorp’s Director: Herbert S. Winokur also of Enron.

http://www.csc.com/newsandevents/news/2072.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34774-2002Nov24&notFound=true

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/10-01-2001/0001582726

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/10-06-2000/0001332191

http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/16380-1.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/10-29-2001/0001603627

http://www.conspiracydigest.com/dirtytricks.html

• Sued and found guilty for wrongfully dismissing former employee, Kathryn Bolkovac, who exposed Dyncorp personnel of operating a child prostitution ring. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0305/S00022.htm

• Sued for wrongful dismissal of Ben Johnson, who exposed sex slave trade, rape, and fraud by Dyncorp personnel in Bosnia. One of the accused pled guilty to charges and was dismissed by Dyncorp but never prosecuted. The case closed in 2000 to the protest of the Human Rights Watch and The Humanitarian Campaign Against the Exploitation of Children. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/163052.html

• Suspected of Drug Trafficking http://www.colombiareport.org/colombia78.htm and http://www.dyncorp-sucks.com/felkins.htm

• Sued by 10,000 Ecuador farmers, AFL-CIO, and International Labor for terrorism because of illegal herbicidal spraying resulting in deaths and destruction. http://www.narconews.com/dyncorpterrorism1.html
• Sued and found liable in over 100,000 asbestos injury claims. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030508/ap_on_bi_ge/california_asbestos_suit_1
• Links to Dyncorp’s Drug, Sex, & Rolling in the Money http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=UTF-8&p=dyncorp&c=news_nytp

ENRON - Defunct multi-trillion dollar energy company.

Chairman until January 2002: Kenneth Lay (Served on G. Bush Jr. Presidential Transition team,

with D. Cheney on new energy policy, and reported friend of both George Bush’s)

Former Enron Advisers: Larry Lindsey (Chief Economic Advisor to Present President Bush)*

Robert Zoellick (Top Trade Negotiator to Present President Bush) *

Former Enron Executive: Thomas White (Secretary of the Army to Present President Bush) *

Auditor of Record: Arthur Anderson also of Dyncorp.

Director: Herbert S. Winokur also of Dyncorp.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,895336,00.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/enron011210.html *

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,641315,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,862090,00.html

http://www.apfn.org/enron/winokur.htm

• Guilty of fraudulently inflating gas cost in California. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/17/155922.shtml

• Accused of Stock Fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, illegal accounting practice, obstruction of justice, etc. Trial continues. http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20030515/ON200305150049000049.var&column=P0DFP and http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,947998,00.html
• Accused by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch of inhuman acts to suppress protests of their West India energy company. Two specific cases in their investigation were the separate beatings of two pregnant women and their children. http://www.progressive.org/pc0900.htm
• Presently under investigation by Security & Exchange Commission, US Congress, and the US Justice & Labor Dept. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34904-2001Dec12
• Applies for fraudulent tax refund http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=580

BECHTEL GROUP CORP – A San Francisco construction-engineering company. Awarded an 18-month, $680 Million plus US contract to rebuild Iraq. (2003).

Awarded $4.8 Million US contract to repair the port of Umm Qasr (2003).

Bechtel’s CEO: Riley P. Bechtel (Serves on US Export Council- Present Bush Adm.) *

Bechtel’s Senior Vice President: Jack Sheehan (Serves on Pentagon Defense Policy Board-Present Bush Adm.) *

Bechtel Board Member: George Shultz (Former US Secretary of State-Reagan Adm.)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-17-bechtel-reconstruction_x.htm

http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/17/news/companies/bechtel/index.htm

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/corporation/profiles/bechtel.html *

http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/17/news/companies/bechtel/index.htm

• Bechtel’s errors in design and construction of a highway cost the city of Boston $1 Billion-Plus, over the original contract. State and city legislators are presently seeking legal remedy. http://www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/bechtel/020903.shtml
• Failed to track asbestos’ dumping during the above-mentioned construction. Tendered a legal settlement of $131,000 for failure. http://www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/bechtel/021103.shtml
• Sought court order to "keep billing secret" in above litigation. Judge rejected their request to do so. http://www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/bechtel/041103_folo.shtml

• Installed one of the reactors backwards at San Onofre nuclear power plant in northern San Diego County; resulting in cost overruns, the destruction of kelp, and the daily sucking in of fish, plankton and even seals in the water needed to cool the reactors. http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PRT.jsp?articleid=6532

• Was forced to leave Bolivia when their management of the public water system in Cochabamba, Bolivia skyrocketed the price of water. Bolivia cancelled the contract. Bechtel has recently brought a $25 million suit against Bolivia for the cancellation. The average monthly income of the Cohabambans is $67.00. The lawsuit is referred to as "Bechtel vs Bolivia’s Poor". http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/corporation/profiles/bechtel.html and http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PRT.jsp?articleid=6532

• The Ok Tedi gold mine in Papua New Guinea, built by Bechtel, allows toxic waste to be illegally dumped directly into the rivers. http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6671

Diana Rogers

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