Halliburton Whistle-Blower Gets 2nd Chance
Halliburton Whistle-Blower Gets 2nd Chance
(CN) - Halliburton and KBR must face claims that they falsely billed the U.S. for services at military bases in Iraq while the U.S. was at war, the 4th Circuit ruled.
During his time with KBR, a former Halliburton subsidiary previously known as Kellogg Brown & Root, Benjamin Carter worked for its reverse-osmosis water-purification unit (ROWPU) in Iraq.
Carter sued the contractor and Halliburton in the Eastern District of Virginia under the False Claims Act (FCA), alleging that they had billed the government for water-purification services on U.S. military bases in Iraq that they never performed.
Carter said Halliburton and KBR "knowingly made, used or cause to be made or used, false records or statements to get false or fraudulent claims paid or approved by the government."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/20/55903.htm
