Bush Giving Billions in Iraq Contracts to Criminally Convicted Corporation

[KelleyKramer]

Check this out!!!

http://www.demopower.com/2004_04_25_kelleykramer_archive.html#108306418360552938


Bush Giving Billions in Iraq Contracts to Criminally Convicted Corporations

This is a good example of why a lot of people call the Bushies a 'Crime Family'. If you don’t recall, Bush reversed federal rules to allow corporations with criminal convictions to bid on more government contracts.

Boy oh boy, didn’t George Bush and Dick Cheney have a lot of foresight when reversing the rule to ban criminals from bidding on contracts?

Actually its not just bidding, because with Dick Cheney's Halliburton they don’t even have to make a competitive bid, Cheney just passes out one multi-billion dollar contract after another to Halliburton, with no bidding at all.

These are the type companies that George Bush and Dick Cheney like to pass out your hundred dollar bills by the tractor-trailer load to ....

""- Ten companies with billions of dollars in U.S. contracts for Iraq reconstruction have paid more than $300 million in penalties since 2000 to resolve allegations of bid rigging, fraud, delivery of faulty military parts and environmental damage.""

Out of the ten corporations mentioned, 6 are already repeat offenders. And the rule only listed corporations who had been caught and convicted in just the last three years, but apparently for Dick Cheney and the Bush crime family, that 3 year rule was just too strict for their corporate criminal friends.

And check this part out ...

"If they pay their fine or do what they have to do to get off a debarment list, they are back in good standing and eligible to compete," Tallman said.

So for Bush's criminal friends it's pretty much like the Soprano crime family.. You steal $780 million.. pay a $1.2 million fine and you're back in.. It's just an expense, part of do'in bidness.

And for Dick Cheney's Halliburton, stealing $780 million these days is small change to them, Halliburton and their subsidiaries are running well over $1 billion a month just out of Iraq, and the article doesn’t even mention the half dozen or so current investigations into Halliburton criminal fraud.

Dick Cheney left a $20+ million a year cush CEO job to work under high pressure at $400k a year as Vice President.. Is there any doubt now as to why Dick would take the huge pay-cut and the added work??

I'm so old I can remember when people would always say "Crime never pays" ...

Those people obviously never saw the Bush and Cheney gang in action.

If John Kerry were smart he would make the mantra of his campaign .. Get Tough on Crime!!


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Kelley
www.demopower.com/blog


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10 U.S. Contractors in Iraq Penalized
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=3&u=/ap/20040427/ap_on_re_us/iraq_punished_contractors

WASHINGTON - Ten companies with billions of dollars in U.S. contracts for Iraq (news - web sites) reconstruction have paid more than $300 million in penalties since 2000 to resolve allegations of bid rigging, fraud, delivery of faulty military parts and environmental damage.
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Seven other companies with Iraq reconstruction contracts have agreed to pay financial penalties without admitting wrongdoing. Together, the 10 companies have paid to resolve 30 alleged violations in the past four years. Six paid penalties more than once. But the companies have been awarded $7 billion in Iraq reconstruction contracts.
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The Bush administration suspended the new rules during its first three months in office, and revoked them in December 2001. Business groups had objected to the Clinton changes, arguing it was unfair to deny contracts for reasons unrelated to how well a firm could do the work.
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Federal authorities also are investigating whether Halliburton broke the law by using a subsidiary to do business in Iran, whether the company overcharged for work done for the Pentagon in the Balkans and whether it was involved in an alleged $180 million bribery scheme in Nigeria. The company admitted in 2003 that it improperly paid $2.4 million to a Nigerian tax official.

More on the full article HERE--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=3&u=/ap/20040427/ap_on_re_us/iraq_punished_contractors

[revcarol]

1. Can you change your title?

There is more than one dirty corporation, getting billions of our taxpayer $$.

Your title should read "corporationS."

[KelleyKramer]

5. Thanks for the advice...

Actually it had "corporations!!!" on the end of the original title.

Apparently DU cuts them off.. looks like I'm too longwinded.

So much Bush crime.. and so little space to tell it in...

[NMDemDist2]

2. kick eom

[Killarney]

3. good info - kick

[ima_sinnic]

4. ironic the Repukes make sure ex-convicts can't vote

I remember a few months ago Neal Bores whining about how the Democrats want convicted felons to be able to vote in Florida (where those who have served their time still can't vote); that that is the kind of people who make up the Democratic Party. UGH, that pseudointellectual pusball. I'm sending him a copy of this--he'll conveniently ignore it of course. He wishes women and those who collect welfare and student loans shouldn't be able to vote but never addressed my question of why those who profit from the policies of government should be allowed to vote either.

[KelleyKramer]

6. Great point!

What an excellent point, and it certainly puts things into perspective doesn’t it!