Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney

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Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2008-04-29 20:35. Criminal Prosecution
By Jason Leopold

Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton ended eight years ago, but a federal investigation of alleged bribes from a company subsidiary to Nigerian officials lingers from the Cheney era, raising questions about what the Vice President knew or should have known.

In its quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, Halliburton said the Justice Department was widening its probe to determine whether Kellogg Brown & Root paid $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials to win a $5 billion construction contract for the Bonny Island natural gas liquefaction plant.

Halliburton also said the Justice Department is investigating whether bribes were paid to Nigerian officials relating to KBR’s construction of an offshore platform. The bribes allegedly went to the notoriously corrupt Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and some of his subordinates.

The Justice Department "has evidence of payments to Nigerian officials by another agent in connection with a separate KBR-managed project in Nigeria called the Shell EA project," according to a footnote in Halliburton’s SEC filing.

(hmmmmm Nigeria....?) more at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33111

[MissWaverly]

1. it's sad that there has been no accountability at all

there is no way this can be explained away as legal or to claim that those involved
did not know it was illegal, why did this never come up in the campaign?

[Old Codger]

2. I really

doubt that anything haunts him at all, you have to have a conscience to be bothered by things like that and even if they try to do anything shrubby will pardon him