Kuwait-based Agility Attempts to Vault Fraud Charges for over-billing the U.S. taxpayers

[bridgit]

'Agility, a Kuwait-based multi-billion dollar logistics company spawned by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is facing criminal charges for over-billing the U.S. taxpayer on more than $8.5 billion worth of food supply contracts in the Iraq war zone. If the lawsuit, scheduled for February 8, is successful, the company could owe the U.S. government as much as $1 billion.

Originally known as Public Warehousing Corporation (PWC), Agility boasts that it once supplied one million meals a day to U.S. soldiers and contractors in the Middle East. The company's Mercedes trucks hauled delicacies from ice cream to lobster tails to feed soldiers living on military bases scattered throughout Iraq. Today it has new contracts to provide food to the U.S. Agency for International Development in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and – until about a month ago – was supposed to ramp up food delivery to the troops newly posted in southern Afghanistan.'

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15513

[lonestarnot]

1. $1 billion. Excellent.

Every billion counts. :P

[bridgit]

3. That U2 song Bullet the Blue Sky comes up at the saloon and I hear...

"And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred"

And I think pft...that song needs an update

"One billion, two billion" sounds more like it and yeah after a while you're talking money :P :P

[Yurovsky]

2. Glad to see our tax dollars hard at work...

next time you notice someone sleeping in the streets or a school closing its music program, stop and think how nice it'd be to have the billions stolen by corrupt military contractors back in federal & state treasuries.

[bridgit]

4. Sadly no doubt