Ex-Halliburton worker pleads guilty to bribes

[BR_Parkway]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A former Halliburton Co. worker pleaded guilty late last week to taking more than $110,000 in bribes from an Iraqi company in 2004 and defrauding the United States, court documents showed.

The man, Glenn Allen Powell, is facing up to 20 years in prison plus a $1.25 million fine for the crimes, which he committed while working for Halliburton's KBR engineering and construction unit, the U.S. government's largest private contractor in
Iraq.

According to his plea agreement filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Rock Island, Illinois, Powell admitted to taking a kickback from the company, which was not named, in exchange for securing a $609,000 contract for it to renovate a warehouse in Iraq.

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Another former KBR employee, Jeff Alex Mazon, was also indicted in March for devising a scheme to defraud the U.S. military of more than $3.5 million under a contract to supply fuel tankers for operations in Kuwait.

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[CitrusLib]

1. Color me shocked.

Halliburton defrauding the United States? Really??

:sarcasm:

[Southpaw Bookworm]

3. Same here.

Shit, what surprises me is that he was convicted, rather than earning a Presidential medal like Bremer.

[babylonsister]

2. Drip...drip... how many more can be

dug out of the woodwork?