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Thread #98901 Message #1977579
Posted By: Charley Noble
23-Feb-07 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: Obit: KBR employee dies in Iraq (Feb 2007)
Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies in Iraq
One little known fact about civilian contractors is some of them end up in battles with the contractor for their hard-earned pay. The people who run these companies salt away hugh profits for themselves in the usual Caribbean hide-aways, and when their padded invoices trigger investigations they don't pay the people who were doing the work. One of my tenants has gone through this process twice with different defense contractors in Iraq with the same result.
He's no longer interested in being the one who "turns the lights off" after the last troop transport heads back to the States.
Charley Noble