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</font></div><div><pre><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Bush administration and Halliburton have been included in

an expanded US Congressional investigation into the United

Nations' oil-for-food scandal. </span>The subcommittee, chaired by

Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays, will subpoena documents

on the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">management of oil revenues by the now-disbanded US

Coalition Provisional Authority</span>, which governed Iraq from May

2003 through June 2004.</b>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shays' subcommittee will also subpoena Pentagon audits on Iraqi

reconstruction contracts, including the audits on Halliburton's

no-bid oil contracts that were financed through revenues obtained

by the UN's oil-for-food program during the period when Saddam

Hussein governed Iraq.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the funds obtained by Saddam Hussein via the UN's oil-

for-food program were used to finance Halliburton's no-bid

contracts after the US-led invasion toppled the Iraqi government

in March 2003.</span>

Former Halliburton employees have described multiple abuses of US

taxpayers' money in Iraq, but a congressional investigation of

Iraqi oil funds paid to US contractors had not been proposed

until now.

The subcommittee intends to subpoena the Federal Reserve Bank of

New York for information on the management of Iraq's oil revenues

and to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> request that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld provide

audits on non-competitive contracts.

So far, the Bush administration has admitted that US companies

bribed Saddam Hussein's government in order to win business from

the dictator. </span>The US ambassador to the United Nations, John

Negroponte, told Congress last April that US companies had paid

the bribes in exchange for government contracts during the 1990s.

Senators Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiaana) and Joseph Biden

(Democrat, Delaware) urged Negroponte to disclose the names of US

companies involved in the bribes, but he refused.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The congressional General Accounting Office estimated that

<b>Saddam's regime acquired US$10.1 billion illegally</b> through the

sale of US$5.7 billion in oil smuggled to Syria, Turkey and

Jordan, and $4.4 billion through kickbacks paid by firms selling

food, medicine and other goods to Iraq. The illegal sales

occurred between 1997 and 2002.</span>

Ironically, some of that money ultimately was paid to Halliburton

to finance Iraq's reconstruction after Saddam's downfall.

Meanwhile, Halliburton is going to great lengths to ensure its

influence on the White House is maintained.

According to filings with the US Senate Office of Public Records

Halliburton spent $770,000 lobbying Washington in first half of

2004, a 400 percent increase from the $150,000 spent during the

first six months of 2003.

Halliburton's in-house lobbyists include retired Army Lt Gen

Charles E Dominy</span>; Donald A Deline, a former counsel to the Senate

Armed Services Committee; and George P Sigalos, a former press

aide to Republican Congressman Philip M Crane.

These people pushed for favourable (to Halliburton of course)

legislation on asbestos, tort reform, the World Trade

Organisation, energy policy, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas

Private Investment Corp., government procurement, military

contracting, immigration and homeland security.

Earlier this year, Halliburton hired an outside lobbying firm,

Covington & Burling, to lobby Washington on behalf of its KBR

Government Operations division, the same division being pummeled

by the media, the Pentagon and Congress for its handling of Iraq

contracts. Covington & Burling was paid $520,000 to handle

"inquiries concerning company's construction and service

contracts in Iraq", the firm said in a filing.

According to the filing,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Covington & Burling </span>listed the following

people as lobbyists for Halliburton/KBR: Roderick A DeArment, who

was chief of staff to now-retired Republican Senator Bob Dole;

Martin B Gold, former counsel to Republican Senate Majority

Leader Bill Frist; Stuart E Eizenstat, US ambassador to the

European Union during the Clinton administration; and David M

Marchick, who served in various posts in the Clinton

administration.

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</font></pre></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also hwatch</font></div><div><div class="headblack" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">alliburton spent $770,000 lobbying Washington in first half of 2004, a 400% increase from 2003</font></div><div class="text" style="line-height: 15.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Halliburton dramatically increased lobbying activity for 2004, government records <a href="http://sopr.senate.gov/" target=" " style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">show</a>. According to filings with the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records, Halliburton spent <a href="http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/images/lobbying2003(1).gif" style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">$150,000</a> lobbying Washington during the first six months of last year, but spent $770,000 during the first six months of 2004, a 413 percent increase.

Halliburton's in-house lobbyists spent <a href="http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/images/lobbying2004(1).gif" style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">$250,000</a> during the first half of 2004, a 67 percent increase from last year when it spent <a href="http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/images/lobbying2003(1).gif" style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">$150,000</a>.

The in-house lobbyists include retired Army Lt. Gen. Charles E. Dominy, vice president for government affairs; Donald A. Deline, a former counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee; Barbara Jones; and George P. Sigalos, director of government relations for KBR and a former press aide to Rep. Philip M. Crane (R-IL). These people pushed for favorable legislation on asbestos, tort reform, the WTO, energy policy, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., government procurement, military contracting, immigration and homeland security.

Earlier this year, Halliburton hired an outside lobbying firm, Covington & Burling, to lobby Washington on behalf of its KBR Government Operations division, the same division being pummeled by the media, the Pentagon and Congress for its handling of Iraq contracts. Covington & Burling was paid $520,000 to handle "inquiries concerning company's construction and service contracts in Iraq," the firm said in a <a href="http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/images/lobbying2004covington2.gif" style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">filing</a>. 

According to the filing, Covington & Burling listed the following people as lobbyists for Halliburton/KBR: Roderick A. DeArment, who was chief of staff to now-retired Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS); Martin B. Gold, former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN); Stuart E. Eizenstat, U.S. ambassador to the European Union during the Clinton administration; Alan A. Pemberton, coordinator of the firm's government contracts practice; David M. Marchick, who served in various posts in the Clinton administration; Jack L. Schenendorf; Peter Flanagan; Jennifer Plitsch; Benjamin J. Razi; and Allegra Lane.

Halliburton's lobbying expenses are disclosed in documents submitted under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, which requires congressional and executive branch lobbyists to disclose their lobbying activities twice per year. Each year the information is disclosed at the Senate Office of Public Records. Visit its website <a href="http://sopr.senate.gov/" target=" " style="color: rgb(125, 0, 0);">here</a>.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010</font></div><div><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Floyd E. Dominy, 100, who altered the life and look of the American West as the no-nonsense chief of a federal agency that built dams and provided water to parched land,</b> died April 20 at his farm near Boyce, Va. He had acute cardiovascular respiratory arrest.</p><div id="body_after_content_column" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p>As head of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1969, Mr. Dominy oversaw the completion of the massive Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, as well as similar projects that irrigated crops and lawns and provided electricity for farms, houses and factories.</p><p>Shaped by a boyhood on a hardscrabble Nebraska farm and affected by time spent in the Dust Bowl of the Great Depression, Mr. Dominy spoke with missionary fervor about the importance of bringing water from where it flowed to where it could be used.</p><p>"I watched the people there -- I mean good folk, industrious, hard-working, frugal -- compete with the rigors of nature against hopeless odds," he said of his Nebraska days. "They would ruin their health and still fail."</p><p>That made him a champion of the huge dam projects that were proud symbols of their times and of a national effort to tame nature and make deserts bloom.</p><p>Eventually, however, a complex array of forces political and economic, including the rise of the environmental movement, arrested the trend toward building dams and even led to the destruction of old ones....</p></div></div><div><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Dominy often clashed with his boss, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, a champion of wilderness preservation who thwarted Mr. Dominy's plan for a giant dam in southern Utah at the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After retiring, Mr. Dominy spent his time at his farm on the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, where he raised Angus cattle.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His wife, Alice Criswell Dominy, whom he married in 1929, died in 1982. Survivors include three children, Janice DeBolt of Grand Junction, Colo.,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> retired Army Lt. Gen. Charles Dominy of Oakton</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Ruth Young of Marshall; a sister; eight grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Dominy was vividly portrayed in Marc Reisner's acclaimed 1986 book "Cadillac Desert," a critical look at water management in the West.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16.5px;">Oakton, Virginia 75 yo</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16.5px;"> ASSOCIATED WITH:</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16.5px;">Charles Eltgen Dominy,  David C Dominy</span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">age 74</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Charles E. Dominy, also known as Chuck served as Vice President of Government Affairs at IAP Worldwide Services, Inc. since July 5, 2005. Mr. Dominy served as Vice President of Government Affairs and External Relations at IAP Worldwide Services Inc. Mr. Dominy serves as Vice President of Government Affairs of IAP World Services, Inc. Mr.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Dominy Joined IAP in July 2005, after managing the Washington, D.C. Government Affairs Office for Houston-based Halliburton Company,</span><span id="hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a provider of energy services and products. He served as Vice President - Government Affairs of Halliburton Company since December 2000. Mr. Dominy served as Vice President, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Business Development of Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., from September 1995 to December 2000</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Previously, he served a highly distinguished thirty-three year career in the U.S. Army, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant General. During his tenure at U.S Army , Mr. Dominy served as a Director of the Army Staff, where he was responsible for the management and organization of the Army staff and coordinated the activities of all agencies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> reporting to the Chief of Staff. He also served as the Chief of Legislative Liaison responsible for all Army activities related to the U.S. Congress.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He serves as a Director of Professional Services Council. His education includes an M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois; B.S. United States Military Academy; Advanced Executive Management, Emory University; U.S. Army War College; Command & General Staff College; and Engineer Officer Basic & Advanced Courses.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">projects in angol, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">iran..</span>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><ul class="stacked" style="margin: 4px 0px 6px 8px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none outside none;"><p style="margin: 10px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMAN: Contract award for the provision of $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 oil field services, HALLIBURTON CO. [USA] - Order #: 115504.</font></strong></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East (Mon, 01 Nov 2004) PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN (PDO) recently awarded 3 major contracts to US-based HALLIBURTON CO. According to the terms of the award, HALLIBURTON will be responsible for the provision of the following services: - Cementing; - Stimulation; - Directional drilling; - Logging-while-drilling; - Mudlogging. The cost to complete the project, over a 5-year period, is expected to range between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. HALLIBURTON employs a total workforce of approximately 101,000 involved in the provision of integrated energy, engineering, and construction and maintenance services in over 120 countries. Its engineering & construction subsidiary, KBR, has a total employment of 83,000 active in 43 countries. The company is engaged in the provision...</font><p style="margin: 10px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...President & Treasurer Paul Koeller, Vice-President (Investor Relations) Arthur D. Huffman, Vice-President & CIO Charles E. Dominy, Vice-President (Government Affairs) Ph. (202) 223-0820 Weldon J. Mire, Sr. Vice-President (Human...... Continue reading about <nobr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-123817178.html?refid=engagingnews" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px;">Charles E Dominy</a></nobr></font></p></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div>

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The email that ruined Tony Menendez’s life arrived on a warm and sunny February afternoon in 2006. Menendez is, by nature, precise and logical, but his first instinct was somewhat irrational. He got up to close the door to his office, as if that might somehow keep the message from speeding across cyberspace. Then he sat down at his desk to puzzle out what had just happened.

The email was sent by Mark McCollum, Halliburton’s chief accounting officer, and a top-ranking executive at Halliburton, where Menendez worked. It was addressed to much of the accounting department. “The SEC has opened an inquiry into the allegations of Mr. Menendez,” it read. Everyone was to retain their documents until further notice.

P<span style=" line-height: 1.4;">anic gripped Menendez. How could McCollum have learned he had been talking to the SEC? The substance of the email was true. After months of raising concerns inside the company, Menendez had filed a complaint with regulators and Halliburton’s audit committee that accused the giant oil services company of violating accounting rules. But those complaints were supposed to be kept strictly confidential. Did the agency violate that trust? Did a board member? Somebody had talked.</span>

Ten minutes passed, maybe fifteen. Menendez finally could move. He got up, opened his office door carefully and looked out. The floor normally bustled at that hour in the mid-afternoon. It had cleared out. He turned around quickly, grabbed his computer and rushed out of the heavily secured Halliburton complex north of Sugarland, Texas.

Menendez drove around for hours. He doesn’t remember much about where he went or for how long. At some point, he called his wife.

“Ondy,” he cried out to her, frantic. “They outed me!”

As shocked as Menendez was, his wife had seen something like this coming. Tony was a perennial optimist, even naïve. He always thought the company would do the right thing and fix its accounting problem. More jaded, his wife was prepared for the worst. She’d even urged Tony to start secretly taping his bosses.

“Is anyone following you?” she asked. “Make sure.”

Menendez looked around, seeing only a blur of cars pass at the beginnings of evening rush hour. He didn’t think anyone was tailing him. Then again, how would he know? He needed a lawyer – right now. Only months into the best job he’d ever had, he was in the most trouble of his professional career.

Menendez quickly googled “whistleblower” and “lawyer” on his phone and came up with Philip Hilder, the attorney who had represented the Enron whistleblower, Sherron Watkins. He placed the call and got through. Hilder heard Menendez out and then told him to listen carefully. Hilder instructed Menendez not to tell anyone, not even his wife. Too late for that, and he wouldn’t have kept it from Ondy anyway. They were partners.

“Ok. Then don’t talk on the phone anymore. Don’t talk in your office. Don’t talk in your house,” Hilder continued.

“How quickly can you come in to see me?”</p>

<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I met Tony and Ondy Menendez this past winter, in a suburb less than an hour outside Detroit. Now 44, Menendez speaks earnestly and insistently, with the carefully chosen words one would expect from an accountant. His cheeks carry a tinge of pink and, at the slightest smile, his eyes are consumed by crow’s feet. He hid a bulky frame with a corduroy jacket over a black V-neck sweater.

They told me about their long and agonizing fight against a powerful corporation. It’s a story of what it takes to be a whistleblower in America – and what it takes out of you.

Many whistleblowers come undone after they launch their fights. They have trouble keeping their jobs, their marriages, their sobriety. Even friends who are sympathetic often see them as pains in the ass. They are forever marked by a scarlet “W.” And while whistleblowers naturally start off more skeptical than the average, the experience pushes some into often justifiable paranoia. If you want to know why whistleblowers can seem a little crazy, it’s because anybody who is not a little bit crazy would back away from the ordeal of confronting a corporate behemoth or grinding government bureaucracy.

There’s nothing crazy about Menendez, however, beyond an optimism that persists even when the facts don’t warrant it. Throughout the whole struggle, he just knew that somehow, sometime, the world would come around to seeing he was right about Halliburton.</p>

<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez grew up in Houston, the son of a jovial construction worker with an eighth-grade education. His father had once operated several chicken restaurants and there was a story about almost getting Bob Hope to be a partner, but it never happened. His father had lost it all.

His mother was an insatiably curious, perpetual graduate student in education. The eighth of 11 kids, Menendez was the only college graduate. Ondy, who grew up in Claude, a small town in North Texas, also was the only one in her family to graduate college. Serious and cautious, she has sedate brown hair that goes just below her chin with fine streaks of gray and wears red lipstick. Only faint hints remain of the 16-year-old girl who drove her Trans Am too fast down North Texas country roads.

At the University of Houston, Menendez dreamed of a career as a scientist but those plans were derailed when his girlfriend became pregnant. He switched to accounting because he could get a job more easily, married his girlfriend and had a daughter. Eager to establish himself in a solid profession, Menendez took a job at Ernst & Young as an auditor, a job that required a great deal of travel. One day, Menendez was on a business trip a hundred miles from Houston, where they were living. He called home and, unusually, there was no answer. He returned home to discover that his wife had left and when he finally spoke to her a few weeks later, she told him she couldn’t be a mother right then. His daughter was only about a year and a half old. Menendez raised her by himself for the next year and a half. Eventually, his wife returned and they divorced.

Menendez worked various accounting jobs before landing an executive position at Halliburton in March 2005. The job came with a fancy title, Director of Technical Accounting Research and Training, and was the most responsibility he’d ever had. Only months earlier, Halliburton had settled with the SEC after a two-year accounting probe. In hiring him, Mark McCollum told Menendez that he should be his “Smokey the Bear,” helping Halliburton prevent accounting fires from flaring. Menendez was 34, and now remarried to Ondy. They had two young children. He felt his life was on course.....</p>

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