In the wake of its many no-bid contracts in Iraq, as well as poor service and overcharging for meals by its subsidiary, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), you'd think Halliburton wouldn't be getting any more contracts.

Of course, you'd be wrong. On June 18, almost no major papers reported that KBR won a contract to build a $30 million prison facility in Guantanamo Bay. This was reported by only five major papers and magazines, according to LexisNexis.

Here's a list of the other successful projects undertaken by KBR, as revealed in hearings held on June 27:

Pentagon auditors have questioned more than $1 billion in costs by contracting giant Halliburton Co. for its work in Iraq, a number several times higher than previously disclosed, according to a report by congressional Democrats.

The report, based on Defense Contract Audit Agency documents and a briefing by DCAA officials, details $813 million in questioned costs on a Halliburton contract to provide logistical support to U.S. troops and $219 million on a no-bid contract to restore Iraqi's oil network.

The Defense Contract Audit Agency found an additional $442 million in Halliburton charges that were "unsupported," meaning the company had not provided enough documentation to justify the cost, the report said.

Among the costs that Pentagon auditors questioned were $152,000 in "movie library costs," a $1.5 million tailoring bill that auditors deemed higher than reasonable, more than $560,000 worth of heavy equipment that was considered unnecessary, and two multimillion-dollar transportation bills that appeared to overlap. [The Washington Post.]

Oh, and then there's this:

Speaking by video, Rory Mayberry, a former food production manager at Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., told Democratic lawmakers how Halliburton charged the government for as many as 10,000 meals a day it never served. He also said the company paid unusually high prices for its food, fed food as much as a year beyond its expiration date to the troops and ordered employees not to talk to U.S. government auditors.

"For trucks that were hit by convoy fire and bombings, we were told to go into the trucks and remove the food items and use them after removing the bullets and any shrapnel," he said. [The Washington Post; hyperlink not in original.]

What happened when government auditors came calling, to see how KBR was doing?

The managers themselves would leave the base or hide from the auditors when they were on the base and not answer the radios when we called for them. We were told to follow instructions or get off the base. The threat of being sent to a camp under fire was their way of keeping us quiet. The employees that talked to the auditors were moved to the other bases that were under more fire then Anaconda. If they refused to move, they were fired and sent home.

Frequently, there wasn't enough fresh food to go around, since KBR managers were using fresh food to have barbecues for themselves, which they had about three times a week.

KBR also received information on safe food-handling guidelines from the military. KBR managers told their employees explicitly to ignore these guidelines.

Thank you, KBR, for supporting our troops.