Stimulus money going to scofflaw companies
Major recipients of U.S. contracts have paid big fines for breaking environmental, safety and discrimination rules
One company paid nearly $1 million for destroying seagrass in the Florida Keys marine sanctuary. Another settled a discrimination case after federal investigators found it refused to hire black employees. A third firm was rebuked by the Army for poorly screening the interrogators it hired -- interrogators who later abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Despite those problems, the three companies have won millions of dollars in contracts under the ...
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The bush era absence of corporate accountability has not been corrected yet. Are there no ethical alternative contractors?