FBI Investigating Halliburton Contracts

The FBI (news - web sites) has begun investigating whether the Pentagon (news - web sites) improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.

The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq (news - web sites), and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)’s former company…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20041028/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton_contracts MORE}}

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