Iraq corruption: Documents reveal Halliburton excesses

CIOToday: Overbilling for postwar fuel imports to Iraq by Halliburton totaled more than US$108 million, according to a report by Pentagon auditors that was completed last fall but has not been officially released to the public or to Congress.

..In one case, according to the auditing report, the company claimed that it had paid more than $27 million to transport liquefied petroleum gas it had purchased in Kuwait for just $82,000, a charge the auditors dismissed as "illogical."

The fuels report, by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, was one of nine involving Halliburton that were completed in October 2004, the month before the U.S. presidential elections. But the Bush administration has kept all of them confidential despite repeated requests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress

Allegations of overcharging for the fuel imports have swirled from the initial days of the occupation, but this latest audit suggests that that the scale of disputed charges was higher than previously known.

In December 2003, the same Pentagon auditing agency announced that a preliminary study had discovered $61 million in unreasonable fuel bills up to that point. Link

POGO has the report - also Congressmen Waxman/Dingell letter to Bush here