Kellogg Brown & Root filed a motion for sanctions against the federal government, one month before the Houston-based megacontractor expects to defend itself against the U.S. Department of Justice’s kickback allegations at a scheduled civil trial in East Texas.

In its sanctions motion, filed on June 2, KBR alleges that Michael Lockhart, an assistant U.S. attorney in Beaumont, repeatedly told KBR counsel that he couldn’t get the grand jury testimony of an existing and a former KBR employee from a criminal case in Illinois federal court. The two were expected to be witnesses in the East Texas civil litigation, United States v. Kellogg Brown & Root.

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