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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government paid a California contractor $142 million to build prisons, fire stations and police facilities in Iraq that it never built or finished, according to audits by a watchdog office.
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said Parsons of Pasadena, Calif., received money, part of a total of $333 million, but only completed about one-third of the projects. The inspector general’s office is expected to release two detailed audits today, evaluating Parsons’s work on the contract, which is worth up to $900 million.
Parsons said Sunday that it had “some serious reservations about” the audits, saying it was hindered by the violent and unstable security situation in Iraq.
