Enron-Style Accounting in Iraq Reconstruction

You tax dollars at work:

The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress…  The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit…

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One response to “Enron-Style Accounting in Iraq Reconstruction”

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    Joe

    OMG…One more thing to sweep under the rug. That must be a mighty big rug!

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