Halliburton bribes:'most significant file of corruption' says US official

[cyberpj]

20 June 2004
WASHINGTON, June 20 (HalliburtonWatch.org) --
A U.S. Justice Department official held "lengthy" meetings with French authorities in Paris last week to discuss a potentially explosive bribery investigation involving Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported today.

The alleged bribes were paid by a consortium of four companies, which includes Halliburton's KBR subsidiary, to officials of the Nigerian government for the purpose of winning a multibillion dollar construction contract. The consortium, known as "TSKJ," ultimately won the contract.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's CEO when many of the alleged bribes were paid. He currently has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Bribing foreign officials is a criminal offense under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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http://halliburtonwatch.org/news/meeting.html

[fooj]

1. Oops! Not ANOTHER loose end...

:popcorn: Watching these evil, maniacal madmen get caught up in their own BS might be rather entertaining! The self-serving, corrupt agenda of these neo-cons clearly undermine the interests of the American People! Treasonous behavior...


peace.

[cyberpj]

2. Contract that spawned Gitmo awarded to Halliburton during Cheney tenure

Yep. And then there's this from Raw Story:

Contract that spawned Gitmo awarded to Halliburton during Cheney tenure
John Byrne

Experts say firm may have built secret camps

A contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in June 2000 while Vice President Dick Cheney was still at the helm of the firm spawned the detention centers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, RAW STORY has discovered.

The contract, which allocated funds for “emergency construction capabilities” at “worldwide locations,” authorized the Defense Department to award Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root any number of specific naval construction deals abroad.

Pegged at an “estimated maximum” of $75 million in 2000, the deal mushroomed to $136 million by 2004. Some $58 million was dedicated to detention centers at Guantanamo Bay alone, with another $30 million in a second contract.

Specific contracts for the Guantanamo facilities were not inked until February of 2002. Cheney served as chief executive of the company from 1995 until July 2000, leaving shortly thereafter to join the Bush campaign.

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In 2002, the Pentagon said that additional options might reach $300 million. Security experts believe the Bush Administration may have carved out funding from the original agreement to build other secret detention facilities sprinkled across the globe.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Contract_that_spawned_Guantanamo_prisons_awarded_to_Halliburton_during_Cheneys_tenur_0621.html