"Congressional investigators have found that KBR Inc. was awarded $83 million in performance bonuses. Even worse, more than half came after Pentagon investigators linked faulty KBR wiring to the electrocution of four soldiers.
An electrical engineer hired by the Army who reported finding that 90 percent of KBR’s wiring work in Iraq was not done safely.
It has ordered emergency repairs, but the electrical inspector found that the building where the showering soldier was electrocuted still was not safely grounded by KBR until last October, 10 months after his death."
The Pentagon has informed Congress that KBR bonuses were suspended pending a full review of the situation. Senator Byron Dorgan described the Pentagon's initial awarding of bonuses as "stunning incompetence."
KBR is an offshoot of Halliburton, the company Dick Cheney is the ex-CEO of and managed to be awarded major contracts in Iraq and after Hurricane Katrina, despite numerous reports of mismanagement and poor performance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24sun3.html
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