Meet the Company
Building Your Wall
Parsons Government Services was awarded a $609,410,737 contract to manage border wall construction through Big Bend National Park. Here is their documented track record — all from public government sources.
Two fraud settlements. $4+ billion in failed Iraq contracts. Criminal convictions. Active securities investigations. This is who your tax dollars are going to.
$7M
In Fraud Settlements
False Claims Act (1995 & 2015)
$4B+
In Failed Iraq Contracts
Terminated, voided, or abandoned
5
Law Firms Investigating
Securities fraud (Feb 2025)
$609M
Your Tax Dollars
Awarded for the border wall
Who Is Parsons Government Services?
Not a small-town contractor. A Fortune 1000 defense conglomerate with $6.8 billion in annual revenue, 19,600+ employees, and a deep pipeline of former military officials in leadership — backed by nearly $1 million per year in lobbying expenditures.
Corporate Profile
- Parent Company
- Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN)
- Founded
- 1944 (82 years ago)
- Headquarters
- Chantilly, Virginia
- FY2024 Revenue
- $6.8 billion (+24% YoY)
- Employees
- 19,600+ worldwide
- Federal Contracts
- 523 contracts, $17.7 billion total
- 2024 Lobbying
- $950,000
- 2024 Campaign Contributions
- $592,053
Revolving Door
Senior VP Earnie Robbins, who managed Parsons' international division during Iraq reconstruction, is a retired Major General who joined Parsons just four months after leaving military service. POGO noted that defense contractors "are full of retirees who have lots of access and exercise a lot of influence." [Source]
$17.7 Billion in Federal Contracts by Agency
30 Years of Documented Failures
Every incident below is documented in DOJ press releases, federal inspector general audits, SEC filings, or federal court records. Click any entry for details.
The Iraq Catastrophe
From 2003 to 2007, Parsons managed over $4 billion in Iraq reconstruction contracts. The results were catastrophic — mass terminations, abandoned projects, criminal convictions, and hundreds of millions in wasted taxpayer dollars.
Iraq Reconstruction: Where Did the Money Go?
$142M+ spent on projects that were never finished
Projects left as "empty shells of crumbling bricks"
Only one-third of attempted projects were finished
150 Healthcare Clinics
$243 million contract
TERMINATED — Only 6 of 150 clinics completed
Federal auditors found most partially completed clinics were little more than "empty shells of crumbling bricks and concrete." USACE progressively terminated the contract.
Khan Bani Saad Prison
$40 million contract
TERMINATED FOR DEFAULT
Parsons was paid $31 million for a prison that was never completed. The government left behind $1.2 million in unguarded construction supplies — most went missing.
20 Hospital Refurbishments
$70 million contract
CONTRACT VOIDED
Corps Commander Maj. Gen. McCoy: "In the time they completed 45 projects, I completed 500 projects." He found cost overruns "in almost every case."
Follow the Money
Parsons has a documented pattern of billing the government for costs to which it was not entitled. Twice caught, twice settled.
1995
Air Force Overbilling
$3.2 Million
Parsons paid the United States $3.2 million to settle fraud claims arising from allegations that the company knowingly overbilled the government on two Air Force contracts.
Source: Federal records via Wikipedia2015
DOE Savannah River Fraud
$3.8 Million
PGS settled allegations that it knowingly mischarged the DOE for ineligible employee relocation costs on a $2.3 billion nuclear waste facility.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice"Those who expect to do business with the government must do so fairly and honestly."
— Deputy AAG Benjamin C. Mizer, DOJ
February 2025 — Active Investigations
Securities Fraud Under Investigation
-11.5%
Stock price drop
$29M
In financial adjustments
5 Firms
Investigating fraud
Two days after DHS announced the $609M border wall contract, Parsons disclosed $29 million in financial adjustments. Their stock plummeted. Within 24 hours, five securities law firms announced investigations into whether Parsons and/or its officers made misleading statements about financial performance.
The Savannah River Meltdown
PGS's "flagship" $2.3 billion DOE nuclear waste facility — the same project they settled fraud on, got cited for "degrading performance," and faced $33 million in penalties.
DOE cited "degrading performance" ... schedule was "unstable and unreliable" ... expressed "lack of confidence" in Parsons' ability to forecast milestones and costs.— DOE Notice of Concern, March 2018 | Source
Why This Matters for Big Bend
The parallels between Parsons' past failures and the border wall contract are impossible to ignore.
Same Cost-Plus Structure
Parsons' Iraq contracts were predominantly cost-plus — the structure SIGIR and POGO identified as enabling waste. The border wall program management contract warrants the same scrutiny.
28 Laws Waived = Zero Oversight
DHS waived the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, Clean Water Act, and 25 other laws. The regulatory checks that would normally catch compliance failures have been eliminated.
History of Contested Costs
From Air Force overbilling (1995) to DOE false claims (2015), Parsons has a 20-year pattern of billing the government for costs they're not entitled to. A $609M contract offers ample opportunity.
Inadequate Oversight Capacity
SIGIR repeatedly cited failure of the Army Corps to adequately oversee Parsons in Iraq. Whether DHS can do better across 175 miles of the most remote terrain on the border remains an open question.
"The question is not whether Parsons can win government contracts — it clearly can. The question is whether its documented track record should have disqualified it from managing one through Big Bend National Park."