Missed This One

Not sure how this matter slipped under the radar, but it did.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - A former executive for a company hired by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary to ship military cargo into Iraq has pleaded guilty to inflating invoices by $1.14 million US to cover fraudulent surcharges.

Christopher Cahill pleaded guilty Thursday [February 16, 2006] in federal court in Rock Island, where the Army Field Support Command that administered the contract is located. Cahill, 51, of Katy, Texas, was a regional vice-president based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for Eagle Global Logistics, a Houston-based company that won a war contract from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root [KBR] in 2002, according to court papers.

Isn't it funny...or not, how several things keep intersecting? Halliburton, KBR, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Texas, fraud and the US military are all accounted for in this little story.