Former Exec: 1998-Promoted By CHENEY To Run KBR-Pleads Guilty To Paying Bribes To Nigerian Officials

[kpete]

(Same players and vices in the yellowcake forgeries scandal, kp)

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Former KBR Executive Pleads Guilty to Bribery
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: September 3, 2008

“Albert J. Stanley, a former executive with a Halliburton subsidiary, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he conspired to pay $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials … between 1995 and 2004 while KBR was working in a consortium with three companies from Japan, France and Italy.”

But the Wall Street Journal adds this detail:

“As the oil-service company’s CEO , Mr. Cheney promoted Mr. Stanley to run KBR… in 1998.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/04bribe.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Disturbed]

1. Halliburton operates in Iran despite sanctions

- Lisa Myers & the ...

Mar 8, 2005 ... President George W. Bush famously described Iran as one of his "axis of evil" nations and US firms have been banned from doing business ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119752/

[OneGrassRoot]

2. K&R Thanks, as always, kpete n/t

[Disturbed]

3. Will this monster Cheney ever get what he deserves?

What is that? A long Prison Term in a real Prison.