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**Originally posted on February 11, 2005 - Updated with a brand new punchline!**

8/23/03

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents. The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed…

1/6/04

The Army has allowed Halliburton to increase the supplies of fuel delivered to Iraq without giving the usual data to justify its cost, a spokesman said Tuesday.

2/3/04

Halliburton, the company formerly run by the United States vice-president Dick Cheney, was back in hot water yesterday over allegations that it overcharged the military by more than $16m (£8.8m) for providing meals to troops at a single Kuwaiti base last year.

5/21/04

Empty flatbed trucks crisscrossed Iraq more than 100 times as their drivers and the soldiers who guarded them dodged bullets, bricks and homemade bombs. Twelve current and former truckers…told Knight Ridder that they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc., billed the government for hauling what they derisively called “sailboat fuel.”

11/24/04

The Army should withhold nearly $90 million in payments to Halliburton because the politically connected firm can’t justify what it charged America’s temporary government in Iraq, a third team of government auditors recommended Wednesday. In a stinging three-page memo, Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, said “weakness in the (Halliburton) cost reporting process” was such a problem that his team of financial watchdogs couldn’t complete a standard audit of the bills Halliburton charged to the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority.

2/8/05

In a departure from normal policy, the Army said yesterday it will not withhold future payments to Halliburton Co., despite audit reports last summer that said the giant logistical contractor had not properly accounted for a wide variety of work in Iraq and Kuwait.

2/24/05

The Army announced yesterday that it has approved $9.4 million in bonus payments to a Halliburton Co. subsidiary on more than $1 billion in work supporting the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the government hasn’t approved final costs and terms.