Halliburton pay should be docked: auditor
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A US government auditor says the US Army should withhold 15 per cent of future payments to Halliburton for work in Iraq due to billing disputes - in a move that could cost the contractor tens of millions of dollars.
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Halliburton HAL.N said on Monday  the U.S. Army had decided to give the company more time to  resolve a billing dispute before withholding payment of up to  15 percent of the company's bills in Iraq and Kuwait.
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Oilfield services firm Halliburton Co. on Friday advised its shareholders to reject a discounted tender offer from a Canadian investment company that is looking to buy up to 3 million Halliburton shares.
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WASHINGTON - The US army said it had suspended its decision to partially withhold payments to Halliburton, the biggest US contractor in Iraq.
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The Army Corps of Engineers' top  contracting official has demanded an investigation into  contracts given to Halliburton, citing "improper action" that  favored Vice President Dick Cheney's old company.
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The Army has agreed to a Pentagon investigation into claims by a top contracting official that a Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq and the Balkans, according to Army documents obtained Sunday.
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Citing newly disclosed State Department documents, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) called yesterday for further congressional hearings on Halliburton Co.'s contracts in Kuwait and Iraq.
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A federal judge in Dallas yesterday rejected a $6 million settlement in a shareholder suit that alleged Halliburton Co. engaged in accounting fraud, saying the lead plaintiffs&#39; lawyer mishandled the case and may have settled for too little money.
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The Pentagon&#39;s internal watchdog is looking into claims by a top Army contracting official that a Halliburton Co. subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for support services in Iraq and the Balkans.
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Halliburton Co. HAL.N, beset by  controversy over its work in Iraq, plans to shed its KBR  engineering and construction unit if the oilfield services  company's share performance does not match its peers, it said  on Thursday.
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The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait and  other senior U.S. officials put pressure on Halliburton HAL.N  to award a contract to a Kuwaiti company suspected of  overcharging to bring fuel into Iraq, according to State  Department documents released on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Army will withhold payment  on 15 percent of future invoices of Halliburton Co.'s HAL.N  logistics deal in Iraq due to a billing dispute that could cost  the company $60 million a month, the military said on Tuesday.
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Fannie Mae's current and former executives should be forced to return any portion of millions of dollars in bonuses they received since 2001 that were based on faulty bookkeeping, a top congressional overseer of the housing finance company has told its regulator.
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Washington -- The inspector general for Iraq&#39;s reconstruction threw his weight Wednesday behind penalizing Halliburton Co. for its work in the war-torn country, concluding that the company&#39;s record keeping
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Halliburton Co. on Tuesday said the  U.S. Army will withhold payments of 15 percent of future bills,  apparently backtracking on an earlier deal.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers&#39; top contracting official on Friday called the government&#39;s grant of multi-billion dollar contracts to oil services giant Halliburton
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After a week of flip-flops by the Army, Halliburton is waiting for a final decision on whether the military will withhold 15 percent of payments for some of its work in Iraq.