and is Bechtel's Chairman Emeritus
just another right-wing think tank where Condi Rice networked
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/main/boardovr.htmlhttp://www.bechtel.com/leadership.htmBechtel: we're number 6; we're number 6; we're number 6
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Post-war Contractors Ranked by Total Government Earnings
All federal contracts from 1990 through fiscal year 2002
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6. Bechtel Group Inc. $11,742,537,000
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http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=history#6Chairman and CEO, Riley Bechtel, is a director of Fremont Group; a director of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. - it's a small good ol'boy world afterall.
"The New Yorker magazine has reported that Bin Laden Construction holds a $10 million stake in the Fremont Group, formerly known as Bechtel Investments, a subsidiary of Bechtel until 1986."
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"In April 2003, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced that Bechtel won a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth up to $680 million to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure such as schools, roads and sewers, as well as perform 'institutional capacity building' to maintain the improvements and create 'roadmaps for future longer term needs and investments'. The contract had been awarded after Bechtel and five other companies, including Fluor, Louis Berger Group, Parsons and Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root, were privately selected by the agency to bid. The contract also allows indemnification of the company against chemical or biological weapons, mines and other perils, according to the contract, obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through the Freedom of Information Act. In September 2003, USAID announced that, due to the poor infrastructure and deteriorating stability in Iraq, Bechtel would receive an additional $350 million on the contract, raising the contract's potential ceiling to $1.03 billion."
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"On January 6, 2004, USAID awarded the second major Iraq reconstruction contract to Bechtel. The Iraq Infrastructure II contract has a total value of up to $1.8 billion; work is scheduled to continue through December 2005. Bechtel's previous reconstruction contract extends through December 2004. It was not disclosed how much Bechtel stands to gain from the Iraq II contract, but USAID told the San Francisco Chronicle that it would not exceed 10 percent of the total value. The company will be working with California-based Parsons and Horne Engineering Services of Fairfax, Virginia.
Bechtel will work on rebuilding major infrastructure such as electric power systems, water and sanitation services, public buildings, airports, roads and rail systems.
For its first contract, the company awarded 162 subcontracts. A total of 122 subcontracts were awarded to 102 different Iraqi companies."
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