Kuwait-based construction firm accused of exploiting employees and coercing low-paid laborers to work in war-torn Iraq is now building the new $592-million U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Once completed, th...
Three years ago FKTC had $35 million. Today, U.S. contracts in Iraq, push the company well past the $1 billion mark plus more than $300 million under Halliburton 's multi billion dollar contract to...
The White House had "signaled" Congress that it was planning a permanent embassy in Baghdad, but in 2005 Bush pushed the funding request veiled as an "emergency" measure. The original proposal for $1...
The award to First Kuwaiti, a company with little experience surprised other US bidders since "First Kuwaiti was not the lowest bidder," said Gilles Kacha, senior vice president of Framaco. The NY fi...
The Veteran owned, experienced US firm didn't even lose to the low bidder. Rocky Mountain Group spent more than $250,000 while preparing a bid to perform engineering oversight and FKTC got the deal ...