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From Kuwait Times:
WASHINGTON: Logistics provider EGL Inc. will pay the US government $300,000 to settle charges the firm's agent in Kuwait overcharged the military for rent on shipping containers to Iraq, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The Houston-based company was accused of overcharging for shipments of military cargo to Iraq last year from January through June. The shipments were made under a subcontract with KBR Inc., formerly a division of Halliburton Co., which was once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.
KBR is the US Army's prime contractor for a multibillion-dollar deal to provide food and shelter to US troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon has awarded more than $20 billion over the past five years under the services contract.
The charges against EGL, operating as Eagle Global Logistics, were initially made by former employees, David Vavra and Jerry Hyatt. Under a whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act, Vavra and Hyatt will each receive $36,000 of the settlement fees, the Justice Department said.
EGL has been accused of overcharging the military before. In August 2006, the company paid the US government $4 million to settle a potential civil claims suit, alleging EGL inflated invoices for military cargo shipments to Iraq under the same KBR subcontract. Whistleblowers Vavra and Hyatt each received $800,000 as part of that settlement.
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Houston based company, overcharges etc. Lot of business in the middle East, that's why Cheney sleeps during the day, up all night plotting on their time zone.
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