Two consultants fired

Friday, June 18, 2004 | 10:54 a.m.

HOUSTON -- Halliburton Co. has fired two consultants -- one of whom was also the retired chairman -- of a subsidiary under investigation for alleged involvement in paying $180 million in bribes to get a natural gas project contract in Nigeria.

The Houston-based oil services conglomerate announced today it is "terminating all relationships" with consultant A. Jack Stanley, who retired in December 2003 as chairman of subsidiary KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root. The company also said another consultant and former employee of M.W. Kellogg, Ltd., a joint venture in which KBR has a 55 percent interest, has been fired. The individual was not identified.

Halliburton terminated the pair because of violations of codes of business conduct "that, to Halliburton's knowledge, involve the receipt by these persons of improper personal benefits," the company said without elaboration.

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