First Kuwaitti General Trading and Contracting

Susan Brannon
13 July 2011
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First Kuwaiti General Trading And Contracting
•    founded in 1996, and soon became a go-to subcontractor for Texas-based contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
•    (2008) given the contract to build the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, despite lacking experience in embassy construction and entering a bid that was $60 million higher than the lowest bidder. project has been plagued by gross mismanagement, labor mistreatment and shoddy construction work. Cost overruns have raised its ultimate price tag from an original $550 million to upwards of $1 billion. But despite documented evidence of First Kuwaiti’s wrongdoing, State Department Inspector General Howard Kronguard continuously defended the company’s performance and thwarted investigations into the embassy project. (In These Times) (Corp Watch)
•    Completed a housing facility for the embassy’s security personnel, but the structure was shut down shortly after it opened. Problems included fuel leaks, dysfunctional appliances, toxic fumes and melted electrical wiring.
•    Reports that the company engaged in human trafficking. Workers from the Philippines, India, Nepal and elsewhere claimed the company lured them with the promise of well-paying jobs in Dubai and Kuwait, but instead flew them to Baghdad and confiscated their passports. (Corp Watch)  (MTR)  (House Reports)
•    Bush-appointed State Department inspector general — guess what — has found no evidence of any wrongdoing. (NYT)

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Flour Corporation

Susan Brannon

12 July 2011

Fluor Corporation – Texas

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•    Partners for Anti-Corruption with the World Economic Forum
•    Board brimming with former high-ranking military officials (as well as the wife of former CIA director R. James Woolsey, (See below listings of Board members)
•    Descended from partnership with the Bin Laden family’s primary financial conglomerate,, bringing its own multi-billion dollar clout throughout the world
•    Has a majority partnership with and is controlled in large part by the bin Laden family's holding company, Saudi Investment Corporation (SICO). (SICO partnered with the Fluor subsidiary American Daniels Realty), SICO is managed by Osama bin Laden's brother and close Bush family associate, Yeslam bin Laden, who, while claiming to be estranged from Osama for decades shared a joint bank account in the ‘90s with the Al Qaeda leader.
•    Flour has paid tens of million dollars in refunds and fines for abuse and overcharging the Defense Department, the Department of Energy and others.
•    Flour has a contract worth nearly $4 billion to manage the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, designated the most contaminated site in North America. The company fired whistleblowers who complained that Fluor's cost cutting created health and safety hazards at the high-level site. The Supreme Court ordered Fluor to pay the whistleblowers more than $4.7 million in damages but, surprisingly, the U.S. government reimbursed the company millions of dollars in legal costs associated with the case.
•    Has been charged with the abuse of black workers and financial fraud in apartheid-era South Africa in two undecided multibillion-dollar lawsuits.
•    Board member Suzanne Woolsey is the the former CIA director who advocated strongly for the Iraq war and sits on the boards of many companies who have profited immensely from his influence in government. She joined Fluor's board of directors in 2004, and during her tenure, Fluor has received billions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction contracts. Through her trusteeship at an arms consulting group, her membership to the Council on Foreign Relations, and her directorship of the Institute for Defense Analyses, Suzanne Woolsey makes recommendations--often benefiting Fluor--to senior Pentagon leaders directing the Iraq war.
•    Ken Oscar, Fluor's vice-president of strategy, was formerly Assistant Secretary of the Army, where he was in charge of procurement and acquisition,
•    Phillip Carroll stepped down as Fluor's CEO in 2002 to work for the Pentagon on plans for Iraq's oil sector in the event of war. President Bush in 2003 appointed Carroll to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq’s oil industry, while Carroll still owned 1 million Fluor shares. The Iraqi Oil Ministry has since doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to Fluor. Carroll is also a top executive of the British defense contractor, BAE systems, with billions in contracts from the defense dept.
•    U.S. Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, who headed the National Security Agency, was vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and was Deputy Director of the CIA, also served Fluor's board from 1985 to 2003.
•    The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), which is supposed to underwrite financing for small to mid-size U.S.firms exporting to emerging countries.   Philip Merrill, as head of Ex-Im from 2002 to 2005, instead secured credit for huge Iraq contracts awarded to Fluor, and other insider behemoths, such as Halliburton and Bechtel.   Billions of Ex-Im dollars disappeared in Iraq under the politically hard-wired Coalition Provisional Authority. In July 2005, Merrill resigned from Ex-Im after an ongoing dispute with the Bush administration over his refusal to approve a billion dollar loan guarantee for China.
•    In 2006, Merrill’s body was found in the Chesapeake Bay, with an anchor tied to his ankle, and a shotgun blast through his head.
Information from: National Corruption Index 

Subsidiaries: ADP Marshall Contractors Inc.; American Equipment Company, Inc.; A.T. Massey Coal Company, Inc.; Fluor Constructors International, Inc.; Fluor Daniel Inc.; Fluor Daniel Williams Brothers; Fluor Daniel Pty. Ltd. (Australia); Fluor Daniel Brasil; Fluor Daniel Canada Inc.; Fluor Daniel Wright Limited (Canada); Fluor Daniel Chile, S.A.; Fluor Daniel China, Inc.; Fluor Daniel India Private Limited; Fluor Daniel Eastern, Inc. (Indonesia); Fluor Daniel (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.; ICA Fluor Daniel (Mexico); Fluor Daniel B.V. (Netherlands); Fluor Daniel Consultants B.V. (Netherlands); Fluor Daniel Sucursal del Peru; Fluor Daniel Pacific Inc. (Philippines); Fluor Daniel Eurasia Inc. (Russia); Fluor Daniel Arabia Limited (Saudi Arabia); Fluor Daniel Engineers & Constructors Ltd. (Singapore); Fluor Daniel South Africa Pty. Ltd.; Fluor Daniel España, S.A. (Spain); Fluor Daniel Group Inc. (United Arab Emirates); Fluor Daniel International Limited (U.K.); Fluor Daniel Limited (U.K.); Tecnofluor Inc. (Venezuela).

Principal Operating Units: Fluor Daniel; Fluor Global Services; Fluor Signature Services; A.T. Massey Coal; Fluor Constructors International.

Board Members:  (Partial list)

Peter K. Barker: California Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co., a global financial services firm, since September 2009. Former Advisory Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. from December 1998 until his retirement in May 2002; and Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1982 to 1998; joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1971. 

Rosemary T. Berkery

Director since 2010; member of the Governance Committee. Vice Chairman of UBS Wealth Management Americas and Chairman of UBS Bank USA since March 2010. Former Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Merrill Lynch & Co. from 2001 to 2008. Joined Merrill Lynch in 1983.

Peter J. Fluor

Director since 1984; Lead Independent Director; Chair of the Organization and Compensation Committee and member of the Executive and Governance Committees. Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, January to July 1998. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Crude Energy, Inc., an international oil and gas exploration and production company, since 2001; President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Crude Energy from 1980 to 2001; joined Texas Crude Energy in 1972. Mr. Fluor is also a director of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Cameron International Corporation.

James T. Hackett

Director since 2001; member of the Governance and Organization and Compensation Committees. Chairman (since 2006) and Chief Executive Officer (since 2003) of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Devon Energy Corporation from April 2003 to December 2003; and Chairman (from 2000), President and Chief Executive Officer (from March 1999) of Ocean Energy, Inc. until April 2003. Mr. Hackett is also a director of Halliburton Company and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

Kent Kresa

Director since 2003; Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Executive and Organization and Compensation and Executive Committees. Chairman Emeritus of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global defense company, since September 2003. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation from 1990 until April 2003. Mr. Kresa is also a director of MannKind Corporation.

David T. Seaton

Director since 2011. Chief Executive Officer of the Company since February 2011; former Chief Operating Officer of the Company from November 2009 to February 2011; Senior Group President, Energy and Chemicals, Power and Government from March 2009 to November 2009; joined the Company in 1985. Mr. Seaton also serves as a director of The Mosaic Company. He is a member of the Business Roundtable, and a board member of the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council. He is also a board member of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative and is co-chair of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Corruption.

Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey

Director since 2004; member of the Audit and Governance Committees. Former Chief Communications Officer of The National Academies, an independent, federally chartered policy institution that acts as an advisor to the nation on science, engineering and medicine from 2000 to 2003; Chief Operating Officer of The National Academies from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Woolsey is also a director of Invesco Van Kampen closed-end funds.

from: Flour 
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Orascom Construction Industries

Susan Brannon
11 July 2011

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Orascom Construction Industries- Cairo, Egypt

•    A foreign company based in Egypt, receiving our tax dollars.
•    June 01, 2010, Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) had acquired Royal DSM’s Agro businesses
•    The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Royal DSM, the global life sciences company based in the Netherlands, announced a partnership to improve nutrition in the developing world through better micronutrients with Royal DSM
•    Case No. 10 Civ. 9527 just filed on Dec. 22, 2010 against “unknown purchasers,” and Royal DSM is involved. The case centers on insider trading immediately prior to the announcement that Royal DSM would buy all the outstanding shares of Maryland based Martek Biosciences Corporation-at a 35% premium over the market price.
•    Orascom Construction Industries has been buying natural gas with Algeria at local market price. It has been almost for free for 25 years. The company needed the gas for its fertilizers factories in the province of OranAlgiers). On the other hand, it does not have any necessary technology to work in fertilizers and petrochemicals sector. (Echo Rouk Online)
•    Sawiris clan owns Orascom and might easily be pegged as cronies of the old regime. After all, Orascom, the family's commercial empire (which Naguib runs with his two younger brothers), is the largest private employer and the largest Egyptian company by market capitalization — and, though started by Onsi under former President Anwar Sadat, Orascom really took off in the past few decades under Mubarak. Naguib is also reportedly a friend of Mubarak's son and heir apparent, Gamal, who was the driving force for economic reforms that included privatizations of state firms.  (Time) 

Associations:

At international and regional levels, Naguib Sawiris serves on the following Boards, Committees and Councils:

• Member of the international advisory committee to the NYSE Board of Directors (IAC) since November 2005
• Board member of the International Advisory Board to the National Bank of Kuwait
• President of the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce for 2008–2009
• Board member of the Supreme Council of Sciences and Technology formed by a presidential decree issued by the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The council's board includes Nobel laureate Dr Ahmed Zewail, Dr Farouq el-Baz and Sir Magdy Yaqoub.
• Co-chair, the Egyptian Italian Business Council
• Board member on both the Board of Trustees and the board of Directors of the Arab Thought Foundation
• Board of Trustees member of the French University in Cairo
• Board member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs
• Board member of the Consumer Rights Protection Association of Egypt
• Chairman of the Board of Endeavor

Other subsidaries:

Wind Telecom

Globalive

Mobinil 

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IAP Worldwide Services

Susan Brannon
10 July 2011

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IAP Worldwide Services ,Cape Canaveral, Fla
IAP also has a corporate tie-in with Halliburton-KBR on multi-billion dollar Iraq contracts.
•    IAP Chief Executive Officer Al Neffgen, who joined the company in December 2004, served as KBR's chief operating officer of government and infrastructure for the Americas, 

1. while President Dave Swindle was vice president of KBR's business acquisition and national security programs before joining IAP in April 2005. Chuck Dominy, a retired Army lieutenant general, joined IAP in July 2005 after serving for years as Halliburton's chief lobbyist in Washington. (Kwait Times)

IAP was founded in 1990 by a former Army logistician as the United States was preparing for "Operation Desert Storm," and now has 5,500 employees. Cerberus became majority owner in May 2004

•    Former Treasury Secretary: John Snow's Cerberus Capital Management LP owns Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based IAP, which is led by former executives from Halliburton's engineering, services and construction subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root). KBR is currently the Army's sole contractor for providing food and shelter to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Army now wants multiple contractors for these services and KBR is bidding again. Some defense analysts are predicting both KBR and IAP, which is run by former
•    Mr. Snow's Cerberus Capital Management LP owns Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based IAP, which is led by former executives from Halliburton's engineering, services and construction subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root).
•    KBR executives, will each win one of the 10-year deals that start in 2007. http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/06/02/ana06011.html
•    Americans were suddenly awakened to the demonic nature of the cabal and its Bush junta: it was revealed that their greed for profits had led to wounded American war veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital being housed in rat-infested quarters and receiving sub-standard medical service. This entire calamity was created by the Bush junta privatizing services at Walter Reed. Bush toadies gave the service contract to a company called IAP Worldwide Service, run by a former Halliburton executive. http://www.hermes-press.com/world_economic_conquest.htm
•    IAP Worldwide Service received a $120 million contract to run portions of the hospital's services called facilities management. Immediately after, facilities management staff was reduced from 250 to 50 privately employed workers. IAP Worldwide Services received the contract in spite of its being found to have provided substandard service in fulfilling its multi-million dollar contracts in providing military support in Iraq and in failing to provide ice cubes to Katrina victims.
•    Walter Reed, is only the latest in a long line of serious problems involving the company and its officers. IAP’s President, Alfred V. Neffgen, was formerly Chief Operating Officer for KBR's government operations group, which was forced to repay tens of millions of dollars to the Defense Department for food and fuel overcharges in Iraq.
•    IAP is also tied-in with Halliburton/KBR on multi-billion dollar Iraq contracts. Halliburton is a major defense contractor once headed by Vice President Cheney, that has had its own history of problems with fraud and overcharges related to its management of sole-source projects in Iraq, particularly the multi-billion dollar LOGCAP contracts to provide privatized logistics, food and housing for US forces in Iraq, and the similar no-bid RIO contract awarded to KBR to repair and maintain Iraq’s oil fields and pipelines. (Daily Kos)

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