KBR Wants Former Employee Who Sued Over Rape To Pay Them $2M
Ryan J. Reilly | August 23, 2011, 10:40AM
Military contractor KBR is trying to get a woman who said she was raped while working for them in Iraq to pay them $2 million to cover their court fees, claiming her $145 million lawsuit against them was frivolous and fabricated.
A jury rejected Jamie Leigh Jones' claim against the company last month. In a court filing, KBR said that Jones' claims were "frivolous, unreasonable, and groundless."
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The God of Total Corporate Power and the Profit Motive is gloating in the heavens.
Kellogg Brown Root, with an illustrious history of overcharging and procurement irregularities, violation of the the anti-kickback act, excessive subcontract costs, fraud and accepting kickbacks, exposing troops to hazardous water, bribery, breach of contract, Navy hurricane relief contract overcharges, conspiracy and false claims, sexual assault, withholding award fees, sexual harassment and retaliation, conspiracy to defraud the government while overseeing fuel deliveries in Afghanistan, not to mention electrocuting a number of our soldiers in Iraq, shower water for soldiers testing positively for E-coli and coliform bacteria (shitwater), exposing U.S. troops and KBR employees to sodium dichromate, serving spoiled and expired food to the troops...
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