Cheney colleague admits bribery in Halliburton oil deals

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cheney-colleague-admits-bribery-in-halliburton-oil-deals-918133.html


Cheney colleague admits bribery in Halliburton oil deals

By Stephen Foley in New York
Thursday, 4 September 2008


A former colleague of the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has pleaded guilty to funnelling millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative contracts in Nigeria for Halliburton, during the period in the Nineties when Mr Cheney ran the giant oil and gas services company.

Albert Stanley, who was appointed by Mr Cheney as chief executive of Halliburton's subsidiary KBR, admitted using a north London lawyer to channel payments to Nigerian officials as part of a bribery scheme that landed some $6bn of work in the country over a decade.

The guilty plea, announced yesterday, came after a four-year investigation by US attorneys and threatens to stir up old controversies just as eyes are trained on the Republican party convention. Mr Cheney, who pulled out of an address to the convention because of Hurricane Gustav earlier this week, led Halliburton from 1995 until returning to government in 2000. He had previously been Defence Secretary under the first President George Bush, and the links with Halliburton have been a constant thorn in the side of the current administration as the company has gone on to win billions of dollars of contracts in Iraq and other US military spheres.

The corruption scandal which exploded back into life yesterday centres on more than $180m channelled into Nigeria via intermediaries between 1994 – before Mr Stanley's employer was acquired by Halliburton – and 2004. Prosecutors allege that the payments were vital to a KBR-led consortium securing a succession of construction projects related to a liquefied natural gas plant at Bonny Island, on the Atlantic coast of Nigeria.

KBR suspended Stanley in 2004 after $5m was found in his Swiss bank account.

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1. Is Fox carrying this?

CNN? MSNBC? ABC? CBS?

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2. Yes, but Halliburton has stated that he is "one bad apple".

This is not Halliburton corporate culture and I would never expect the sitting vp to engage in these type of activities.
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3. Cancel Cheney's and Bush's passports

... as well as all their other villainous co-conspirators in the corrupt and evil BushCo administration.

They will have a hell of a lot to be held accountable for after January 2009. Don't let them get away.

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[G_j]

4. in case you missed it

K

[leftofthedial]

5. if there was Justice in this country AT ALL

the world would be a happy, peaceful place tomorrow.

but there isn't.