By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t
Peter Keisler, the acting US attorney general, covered up evidence of alleged widespread contracting fraud in Iraq by preventing whistleblowers’ complaints from being investigated, according to a prominent fraud attorney.
Alan Grayson, an attorney who has represented scores of whistleblowers in suits against companies that were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts related to Iraq reconstruction, blamed the Bush administration for the lack of government action on Iraq fraud.
In an interview with Truthout, Grayson said Keisler has purposely delayed investigations into Iraq contractor fraud because of Keisler’s political allegiance to the Bush administration. Keisler has refused to prosecute whistleblower lawsuits because Bush “does not want more bad news coming out of Iraq,” Grayson said, adding “to have an entire class of cases treated this way is truly unprecedented. I’ve been doing this for 20 years and I’ve never seen it before.”