-> On 12 Apr 09  07:57:00, TIM RICHARDSON got back to ALL 
-> Re: FEINSTEIN AND MILCON

 TR> Root. Brown & Root, under the Johnson administration became the largest
 TR> construction company in America.
 
 DC> The question still remains:  Were they no-bid contracts?

 TR> Brown & Root occurred before campaign finance laws required candidates
 TR> to reveal the sources of their funding. Indeed, by Johnson's own
 TR> admission, according to his biographer Ronnie Dugger, much of the money
 TR> he got from Brown & Root came in cash. In return, Johnson steered
 TR> lucrative federal contracts to the company. Those contracts helped
 TR> Brown & Root become a global construction powerhouse that today employs
 TR> 20,000 people and operates in more than 100 countries.

Not quite as bad as no-bid, but not good either.  That's especially true 
of the cash payments.  

Frpm the rest of the artocle you posted, it appears KBR has learned 
the building up gvt officials is more profitable than their actual 
contruction business. 

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