KBR settles allegations it overbilled
One of the U.S. government’s largest military contractors will pay $8 million to settle 6-year-old claims that it overcharged the Army for construction and other support services in the Balkans, the Justice Department said.
KBR, a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton Co., was accused of double-billing the government and ordering unusable products while helping build Camp Bondsteel in Serbia’s Kosovo province, prosecutors said.
The contractor also allegedly inflated prices for some unspecified goods that were not put out for competitive bid, the department said. Prosecutors said those incidents occurred in 1999 and 2000.
Halliburton spokeswoman Melissa Norcross said the company was pleased with the settlement, which was reached without charges being filed.
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