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KBR Halliburton Accused in Class Action
Legal World News |
2009/01/28 09:12
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KBR, Kellogg Brown amp; Root and Halliburton knowingly exposed U.S. troops to water contaminated by sewage and made soldiers sick by burning toxic waste unsafely, a class action claims in Montgomery County Court. The class claims that when KBR found it was giving troops contaminated water, it told its water quality specialist to concern himself only with the health and safety of KBR personnel.
The class claims KBR earned $4.8 billion in Iraq in 2006 - 45% of the company's revenue that year - and that the defendants acted egregiously merely to make more money for themselves.
The complaint cites a 2008 report from the Defense Department's Inspector General that confirmed that KBR supplied unsafe water to U.S. troops. It cites a 2006 report from KBR itself that found KBR's failure to disinfect water caused an unknown population to be exposed to potentially harmful water for an undetermined period of time, and that the deficiencies of the camp where the event occurred is not exclusive to that camp, meaning that countrywide, all camps suffer to some extent from all or some of the deficiencies noted.
They claim KBR's report admitted that the company kept little or no documentation on its water safety, standards or procedures.
The complaint states: Former KBT employees and water quality specialist Ben Carter and Ken May told Halliburton Watch that KBR knowingly exposed troops and civilians to contaminated water from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Ben Carter, a water quality specialist who worked for KBR at Junction city, testified that he tested water and found it was polluted with sewage and other contamination and that it was not being chlorinated. He then treated the tanks for the KBR employees and told company managers the military should be alerted so they could treat their tanks as well. Carter told the media that he was ordered by his KBR supervisor to concern himself only with the health and safety of KBR personnel. KBR was supposed to test the water three times daily to confirm safety but, according to Carter, such testing never occurred.
The class seeks medical monitoring and punitive damages for negligence, breach of duty, willful and wanton conduct, and other charges. They are represented by William O'Neil with Burke O'Neil of Washington, D.C. |
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Testing firm sues NYC to lift license suspensions
Legal World News |
2009/01/27 15:15
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| A company accused of faking tests on concrete and steel at the new Yankee Stadium, the Freedom Tower and over 100 other projects is suing New York City to lift suspensions of their licenses.pTestwell Inc. asserts in state Supreme Court papers that the city suspended its licenses unlawfully in October after the company was indicted on enterprise corruption charges. Testwell says the charges have not been proven./ppTestwell says an administrative law judge recommended lifting the suspensions but last week the city rejected that recommendation./ppThe city Law Department says it is reviewing Testwell's court papers. The city has been attempting to retest concrete and steel handled by Testwell on some buildings, although prosecutors say no weaknesses have been found. /p |
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FBI: Long Island investment firm boss surrenders
State Law Issues |
2009/01/26 15:15
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| The owner of a Long Island investment firm accused of cheating people out of more than $100 million is expected to appear in court Tuesday.pFBI spokesman Jim Margolin says Nicholas Cosmo surrendered at a U.S. Postal Inspection Service office in Hicksville on Monday night./ppCosmo runs Agape World Inc. in Hauppauge (HAW'-pawg). He's accused of taking in $300 million from investors and cheating them out of about $140 million./ppA letter hanging in Cosmo's office window denies there was any Ponzi scheme, the type of fraud Bernard Madoff (MAY'-dawf) is accused of committing. A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme promises unusually high returns and pays early investors with money from later investors./ppDefense attorneys at the Herrick Feinstein law firm haven't returned telephone calls seeking comment. /p |
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Four Potter Anderson Attorneys Recognized in The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers 2009
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2009/01/08 14:24
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Attorneys of the law firm of Potter Anderson amp; Corroon LLP have been selected as among the top corporate governance lawyers in the country by Law Business Research Limited.nbsp; Partners Michael D. Goldman, Michael A. Pittenger and Donald J. Wolfe Jr. and of counsel Robert K.nbsp; Payson, were selected for the Who’s Who Legal publication, The International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers.nbsp; The attorneys are members of the firm’s Corporate Group.
The publication identifies private practice lawyers with a proven track record in providing corporate governance advise to boards of directors and substantial privately held entities in connection with corporate disclosure governance and policy issues, as well as dealing with new laws, regulations, stock exchange rules and governance principles.
Research is conducted by Law Business Research Limited, a publisher of research, analysis and reporting on international business law and policy and the business of international law. In 2004, Law Business Research Limited became the official research partner of the International Bar Association, in 2006 it won the Queen's Award for Enterprise and in 2008 it became the strategic research partner of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law. |
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