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Disaster Profiteering in the Gulf
The Army Corps of Engineers is involved in rebuilding both on the Gulf Coast and in Iraq and Afghanistan, as are Bechtel , Halliburton and other major contractors. The contracting process is also familiar, leaving local subcontractors finally doing the actual work with only a tiny amount of the money originally paid by the federal government.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readBechtel, Halliburton and other major contractors. The contracting process is also familiar, leaving local subcontractors finally doing the actual work with only a tiny amount of the money originally paid by the federal government. That's according to CorpWatch, a nonprofit group that keeps track of the private sector. Pratap Chatterjee is the director.
