Maybe steal is two strong of a word, but according to
this NY Times article, Big Dick's old friends have been pretty busy overcharging the Iraqi government for work apprently not completed. The UN is trying to get the money back.
An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended Friday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.
Halliburton's response, it's all a paperwork error..
A spokeswoman for Halliburton, Cathy Mann, said the questions raised in the military audits, carried out in a Pentagon office called the Defense Contract Auditing Agency, had largely focused on issues of paperwork and documentation and alleged nothing about the quality of the work done by K.B.R.
The source of the funds funneled to KBR were the Iraqi oil revenues and money confiscated from Saddam's holdings. As usual Henry Waxman is already on the case.
"The Bush administration repeatedly gave Halliburton special treatment and allowed the company to gouge both U.S. taxpayers and the Iraqi people," Representative Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform, said in a statement on the new audits. "The international auditors have every right to expect a full refund of Halliburton's egregious overcharges."
Somehow I don't think Fox news will give this story as much airtime as the "Oil for Food" corruption story.