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KBR Exec’s Plea Is Sign of U.S. Crackdown on Overseas Bribery
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facebookLast week, Albert "Jack" Stanley, the former head of KBR when it was a subsidiary to Halliburton, pleaded guilty to bribing Nigerian officials. In a story out today on MSN Money, ProPublica's T. Christian Miller, in a collaboration with PBS's Frontline, reports on how the Stanley case is just part of a broader crackdown by prosecutors against U.S. execs for bribing foreign officials.
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