Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., a Houston Texas based defense contractor agreed to pay $13.67 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that its employees accepted kickbacks while providing logistics support to U.S. Army forces in the Middle East. Kickbacks and overcharges have an inherently corrosive effect and undermine the integrity of the procurement process In 2006 a whistleblower lawsuit was filed alleging employees of the Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc., known to...