KBR, Guilty In Iraq Negligence of poisoning troops. Wants Taxpayers To Foot The Bill!

KBR have been found guilty of poisoning US Servicemen through negligence and lies.
Large compensation has been awarded against them.
$85m of compensation for just a few of the servicemen harmed by KBR.
Many other claimants are on their way.

And now they want taxpayers to foot the bill for the compensation award and their legal costs in a case that they lost.

The KBR execs should be facing hard jail time, not asking for a government bailout of their legal costs.
It is the only way to stamp out criminal behavior.
Jail the execs of large companies who commit crimes.
Otherwise it is just going to keep happening again and again.

The real scandal of this is that the American public elect politicians who let the execs of large Corporations get away with things like this.

It's the same with the banks. No execs of HSBC have gone to jail or even prosecuted for blatant massive drugs and terrorist money laundering over several years, that HSBC the company were convicted of.

This and other settlements mean that the government has undeniably stated that the big banks are now above the law.

These large Corporations have enough money to buy the government and the politicians off.

The KBR story.

WASHINGTON -- Sodium dichromate is an orange-yellowish substance containing hexavalent chromium, an anti-corrosion chemical. To Lt. Col. James Gentry of the Indiana National Guard, who was stationed at the Qarmat Ali water treatment center in Iraq just after the 2003 U.S. invasion, it was “just different-colored sand.” In their first few months at the base, soldiers were told by KBR contractors running the facility the substance was no worse than a mild irritant.

Gentry was one of approximately 830 service members, including active-duty soldiers and members of the National Guard and reserve units from Indiana, South Carolina, West Virginia and Oregon, assigned to secure the water treatment plant, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sodium dichromate is not a mild irritant. It is an extreme carcinogen. In November 2009, at age 52, Gentry died of cancer. The VA affirmed two months later that his death was service-related.

In November, a jury found KBR, the military's largest contractor, guilty of negligence in the poisoning of a dozen soldiers, and ordered the company to pay $85 million in damages. Jurors found KBR knew both of the presence and toxicity of the chemical. Other lawsuits against KBR are pending.

KBR, however, says taxpayers should be on the hook for the verdict, as well as more than $15 million the company has spent in its failed legal defense, according to court documents and attorneys involved with the case.

Continued on here :-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/kbr-guilty-iraq-negligence_n_2436115.html

Some great comments on here
Especially this sub-thread.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/outlandish/kbr-guilty-iraq-negligence_n_2436115_220284442.html