Sunday, November 3, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle
Why is Halliburton still paying Dick Cheney?
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/03/BU231196.DTL Excerpt:
"Even though he's no longer in Halliburton's executive suite, Cheney reported on his 2001 tax return that he received nearly $1.6 million in deferred compensation from the company last year. Cheney is still receiving deferred compensation from Halliburton, but neither the company nor the White House
would specify how large his payment will be this year or how long the payments will continue.
This is cash that he's already earned. Yet it's also cash that Halliburton is accruing in part from its activities in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan.
"Whose payroll is he on?"
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That's an easy one - Cheney works for the B.F.E.E.
He's getting tens of millions from them.
His VP pay is chump change.
Does anyone think Bush & Cheney spent $200M to get jobs that pay
a total of $600,000?
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Sunday, November 3, 2002
LAZARUS AT LARGE
Conflict of interest for vice president?
David Lazarus
Let's say there's a businessman -- in China, for example -- with stellar public-sector connections. He wins billions of dollars in government contracts for his company.
Let's say this businessman becomes a high-ranking government official himself. And let's say the government begins throwing its enemies into prison without trials or access to attorneys.
Would anyone be surprised if the official's former company wins the contract for building all those new prison cells? Probably not. We'd just assume that's how things work in a place like Beijing.
Only this isn't a hypothetical situation, and it's not really about China. We're actually talking about the U.S. government and an American company.
And the official in question is none other than Vice President Dick Cheney.
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