Texas man gets 30-month prison term for Iraq bills (profiteering)

[Barrett808]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Illinois sentenced a Texas man to 30 months in prison on Wednesday for inflating bills with bogus "war risk" charges for flying cargo into Baghdad under a contract with Halliburton Co's KBR.

Christopher Cahill, 41, will also pay a $10,000 fine after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to inflating the invoices he submitted to KBR by $1.14 million, the U.S. Attorney's office in Central Illinois said in a statement.

Cahill, an executive at Eagle Global Logistics, Inc., added a 50 cents per kilogram surcharge on freight his company shipped from Bahrain to Baghdad as part of a subcontract with KBR.

EGL repaid the government the $1.14 million in fake surcharges and an additional $2.86 million in fines.

Cahill was the fourth person charged in three cases involving supply contracts that are handled by the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060830/us_nm/crime_iraq_kbr_dc

[ThomCat]

1. So if someone overcharges Halliburton they go to jail.

But if Halliburton overcharges us... nothing.

And I'll bet Halliburton passed those padded charges on to us.

[acmejack]

2. Eagle Logistics made their mark with Dell Computers!

Remember all those RMAs?

[leveymg]

3. Has anyone from Halliburton even been charged?

[sandnsea]

4. What about inflating the intelligence submitted to

the UN, Congress and the American people that started the war in the first place.

[ShockediSay]

5. betcha these Swift Move "Patriots" supported the war

because it supported them many times over

[Blue_Tires]

6. hopefully more join him in jail