Kellogg’s Brown & Root
Lawyers for a former Conroe woman who says she was raped by co-workers while employed by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary in Iraq in 2005 told a federal judge in Houston Wednesday they believe her case should be settled by a public trial and not a private arbitration process.
But attorneys for Halliburton and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc., argued the woman signed a contract that binds her to settle all claims — including sexual assault allegations — against her former employer through arbitration.
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison was expected to make a ruling at a later date.
KBR Rape
War profiteering by tax dodge
KBR, the largest private contractor for the Pentagon in Iraq, has two shell companies in the Caymans, that, for bookkeeping purposes, employ about 10,500 Americans in Iraq. Because the companies are offshore, neither KBR nor the workers must pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, allowing the company and its workers to avoid paying about $100 million a year, according to Globe reporter Farah Stockman.
KBR Tax Dodger
KBR Electrocuting Troops
