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Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts
FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup
FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.
Bush administration profiting on death and destruction?? Who'da thunk?? I mean, they seemed like such nice people!!
posted by Anonymous at 7:19 AM
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Halliburton awarded $500,000,000; Shaw Group awarded $200,000,000 contracts in Katrina aftermath.
My heart just went all aflutter when I heard that those good ol' boys at Halliburton were not left out of the Katrina contractor feeding frenzy. It would have been a shame had Cheney not gotten his cut of federal post-Katrina contracts. Dickie is just looking out for old friends (including himself).
Mind you these were "no bid" contracts again. So no one checked whether or not the charges for work to be performed will provide real value to American taxpayers. More likely the money received by Halliburton will adequately compensate Haliburton / Shaw, Joe Allbaugh, Dick Cheney and other politicos with their fingers in the Federal pie.
To make you feel better, fair wage laws are suspended in the hurricane zone which will give Halliburton, Shaw and others the opportunity to hire people for less than the going wages...limit the pay out of the windfall contract in the form of wages...ain't Bush's form of democracy wonderful? Wonderful for Halliburton, at least.
Thanks for that ref. In addition, there has been little reporting on the fact that Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Procurement Officer who testified against Halliburton, was just demoted. This is blatantly illegal retaliation but so much for whistleblower protection in Bush's Whitehouse! She joins Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame and others as yet another casualty of retaliation by this crooked administration.
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