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I went to to Kuwait and all I got was this million dollars. First Enron, then Boeing, and once again Cheney's posse Halliburton:

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. - Three months after leaving his job, a former Halliburton Co. procurement manager in Kuwait received a $1 million kickback from a subcontractor he had helped select for millions of dollars' worth of business, federal prosecutors say.

In the first criminal charges to emanate from Houston-based Halliburton's military-contract work in the Middle East, a Peoria, Ill., grand jury has charged both the one-time procurement manager and a Saudi businessman with defrauding the federal government out of more than $3.5 million.

The 10-count indictment made public Thursday accuses Jeff Alex Mazon, 36, and Ali Hijazi, a Saudi national and managing partner of Kuwait-based La Nouvelle General Trading and Contracting Co., of scheming to drive up subcontractors' bids for supplying fuel tanker trucks at a U.S. military airport in Kuwait.

Neither Halliburton nor its KBR subsidiary was named in the indictment.

Historians' future summaries of W's administration will consist of a single word: "fraud."

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