Last week, I wrote about the decision by Judge T.S. Ellis III to overturn the $10 million verdict against Custer Battles. It was decided on the grounds that the company ripped off the Coalition Provisional Authority, an entity independent of the United States government, thus the False Claims Act does not apply. This week, on the heels [...]

In June, I profiled the ill-fated and poorly named Custer Battles, LLC. While the company was not awarded Halliburton-sized contracts to operate in Iraq, Custer Battles engaged in some of the most deplorable and atrocious acts of fraud and profiteering. Back in March, a federal jury found Custer Battles guilty of defrauding the government. Retired [...]

At least we’d get heating this way. The greed of profiteers know no bounds. Rather than just limit themselves to raking in the millions (and in some cases, billions) on death, destruction and misery in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of the same companies are doing the same thing right here at home and elsewhere in [...]

Ahh, freedom. (Photo credit: Global Policy Forum, Fallujah, 2004) The Virginia-Pilot has an extensive six-part series on Blackwater USA, the private security firm mercenaries based out of North Carolina. The company was founded by Erik Prince in 1997 and were awarded the $21 million contract to protect Coalition Provisional Authority viceroy, Paul Bremer, in Iraq. [...]

David H. Brooks, former chief executive of the company named after himself DHB Industries Inc., is a greedy war profiteer that sounds like the long lost love child of Enron’s Kenneth Lay and Martha Stewart. Brooks developed DHB in 1992 after he purchased the fledgling company "from the verge of bankruptcy." Earlier that year, the [...]

  This week, I thought I would change things up a bit and I’ll throw my own hat into the YouTube video frenzy that has taken over the liberal blogosphere in recent weeks and highlight some videos regarding war profiteers provided online. First, some trailers. Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films have an upcoming documentary, [...]

  Earlier this week, the Republicans celebrated a reduction of the federal deficit to $296 billion (as opposed to the $400 billion projection in February) for the upcoming fiscal year. (ed. note: What a surprise. They botched an estimation. Business as usual in the Bush White House.) While members of the GOP did endzone dances [...]

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Total Contracts: $5,286,136,252 [Cross-posted at The Great Society] In contravention to the previous companies chronicled, the Pasadena, California-based Parsons Corporation, founded in 1944 under the name The Ralph M. Parsons Company (RMP), is wholly owned by its roughly 9,000 employees. The company originally formed as an engineering and construction firm for "government, petrolchemical and infrastructure [...]

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft goes where one former A.G. probably should not. John Ashcroft is… "The Insider." Now lobbying in government offices probably nowhere near you. With a history dating back to the late 19th century, General Dynamics is among the top five defense contractors based in the United States and involved in land, [...]