Cheney worth $94.5 million, made while a public servant?

[babylonsister]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2006/06/18/m10a_blackburncol_0619.html

Cheney mum, but his money talks

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The vice president doesn't like it when people talk about his money. He told Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., to commit an impossible physical act on himself when the senator tried to twit him about his payments from the Halliburton Company. Friends say his deferred salary payments from Halliburton were earned while he was head of the company and have nothing to do with the company's contracts for the war he helped to start. And he says he is donating the profits on his more than 400,000 Halliburton stock options to charity.

But, as noted, he really thinks that his money is nobody else's business. If you add up the money in just the accounts Kiplinger's considered, he has between $23 million and $65 million invested. From its analysis. Kiplinger's figured that the Cheneys' total assets could be as much as $94.5 million.

That represents a considerable amount of saving for someone who spent most of his working life on the public payroll as a member of Congress or the executive branch. Mrs. Cheney earned $120,000 a year for a while on the Lockheed board for her expertise in whatever. She also wrote some books, but most or all of the royalties went to charity.

That $94 million would still be a nice pot for someone who spent only five years in the private sector. Maybe public service is more remunerative than people think. Maybe the Cheneys are better investors than Warren Buffett but are too modest to talk about it.

But if Harry Truman had left office with that kind of money stashed away Republicans would still be holding investigations of how he got it. The rules are different for them.

[jsamuel]

1. exactly, you don't make 100 million in public service while being on the

up and up

[Skink]

2. To bad for Dick when we start seizing assets.

[Master Mahon]

3. Just prior to 9/11 Cheney

had virtually ALL his money in money market accounts.
Now how many multi-millionaires at that time had ALL their money sitting in money market accounts? (At least those who didn't know what was coming)

[htuttle]

4. Flash forward to 2015

Received via email:

HELLO,

SORRY TO DISTURB YOU IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE REGARDING A MOST CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT MATTER. I AM THE NEPHEW OF FUGITIVE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY. BEFORE HE WAS FORCED FROM OFFICE, HE AMASSED OVER $80 MILLION DOLLARS (US) IN A BANK ACCOUNT IN SWITZERLAND. I NEED FOR SOMEBODY TO PROVIDE US BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER SO THIS FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO A NEUTRAL LOCATION. IF YOU CAN PROVIDE US WITH THESE NUMBER, I WILL PAY A TRANSFER FEE TO YOU OF 25% OF THE $80 MILLION DOLLARS FUNDS.

PLEASE RESPONDS URGENTLY,

DICK CHENEY, JR.
MANAMA, BAHRAIN

[FSogol]

5. LOL. Wish I could recommend responses for Greatest. n/t

[NanceGreggs]

6. Oh.My.God.

THAT is BRILLIANT!!!!!!

:rofl:

[sabra]

10. funniest things I read today!

[stevedeshazer]

17. ROFL!!

:rofl:

[Cocoa]

19. brilliant

:rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Another LOL

I'm going to frame that one :rofl:

[warrens]

7. I am comforted by the likelihood

That he'll never get to enjoy that money. Judging by his apparent health, or lack thereof.

[ccpup]

8. And this is living

(sort of) breathing proof that money doesn't buy class or happiness or good health or physical comfort. In the end, it's all just paper, ink and a whole bunch of numbers.

[NYC]

11. It buys power.

And it buys Cheney the power to accumulate even more money -- at the expense of Iraqis and American taxpayers.

[wordpix2]

9. Unka Dick's dark side on PBS' Frontline Tues. 9 pm. See preview here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

Maybe we can figure out how he made all this cash he will soon have to liquidate to the US Treasury, by watching and putting the PBS info together with other things we know about Darth.

[UpInArms]

12. The rules are different for them. Says it all.

These people are criminals - they believe that "public servants" mean the public serves them.

These pieces of shit are lower than dirt. It is times like this that I wish there were a hell and they all get what they so richly deserve.

[pinniped]

13. Merkans are stupid.

Many knew dicky boy was a creepy robotic goon, yet still voted for these pathetic sickos.

[bigtree]

14. just think how much of America he's given away for that

without America to bargain with, he'd be worth nothing to anyone.

[babylonsister]

15. Does anyone know what Lynn Cheney did to earn $120,000

per year on the Lockheed board, and how many contracts were they awarded? Call me skeptical...

[wordpix2]

21. hmm. I didn't know Lynn was on the Lockheed board, sounds like conflict of

interest to me.

[babylonsister]

22. This could prove it...

Top contractor Lockheed got contracts larger than budget of Congress, Dept. of Interior

WASHINGTON -- A new report claims that a "shadow government" of federal contractors has exploded in size over the last five years.

The document, compiled at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and distributed to RAW STORY, indicates that procurement spending increased by over $175 billion between 2000 and 2005, making federal contracts the fastest growing component of federal discretionary spending.

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That spending increase -- an astonishing 86 percent -- puts total US federal procurement at $377.5 billion annually. The increase means spending on federal contracts has grown more than two times as fast as other forms of discretionary government spending.

ttp://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report_Federal_contracts_ris...

[Roland99]

16. F*cking over Americans is very lucrative.

[Kingshakabobo]

18. Pish posh. ........

Cheney: “I can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it,”

He made that money in the PRIVATE sector..........the old fashioned way.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact


During the 2000 Vice-Presidential debate, Senator Joseph Lieberman teased Cheney about the fortune he had amassed at Halliburton. “I’m pleased to see, Dick, that you’re better off than you were eight years ago,” he said.

“I can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it,” Cheney shot back. In fact, despite having spent years championing the private sector and disparaging big government, Cheney devoted himself at Halliburton to securing government funds.<<<<<<<<<

You gotta admit, he has a lot of gaul.

[MissWaverly]

20. Truman, HA, they investigated Whitewater for 10 years

it cost the US taxpayers 71 million, and there were no indictments. Well, let's see now
that we have those Republicans who were so moral during the Clinton era, how much time
have they spend investigating Cheney's financial dealings. 120 seconds, 90 seconds, 60
seconds, 10 seconds?

[Canuckistanian]

23. There are a lot of "coincidences" in his life

Like when Scalia "just happened" to go hunting with him just before dismissing a case trying to look into Cheney's Energy Task Force.

Maybe Crashcart should host a TV show, explaining how public servants can maximize their earning potentials.

[Nothing Without Hope]

24. With such a greedy, secretive, cunning man - do you really think that's

ALL of his hoard? I'd be shocked if he didn't also have secret bank accounts and other arrangements to conceal his real holdngs. A mere 100 mil? Oh, I think our dear vice president would curl his lip at the idea of stopping at that level.

[GreenTea]

25. Not to mention his kickbacks from war profiting corporations sitting

in his private account in the Cayman's --- No one knows how much and he pays no taxes on it...Fuck the tax payers, he has his --This is patriotism?

No, its pure greed and his sickness won't get any better...he believes he deserves it. ALL from our tax dollars, as we sink, Cheney just swims away smugly, arrogantly and vindictively.

Screw the US and it's people, it's the multinationals and a world economy only what he believes in. Cheney has no loyalty to the American soldiers, workers, or to our country, only to what he believes is his to steal.