Halliburton may pay $500 million to keep Cheney out of prison: report

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Raw Story

Oilfield services company Halliburton is in negotiations with the Nigerian government to keep its former CEO, Dick Cheney, out of prison, according to a news report.

Sources inside Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told GlobalPost this week that a settlement keeping the charges against Cheney out of court could cost as much as $500 million.

Nigeria filed charges against Cheney this week in an investigation of alleged bribery estimated at $180 million. Prosecutors named both Halliburton and KBR in the charges, as well as three European oil and engineering companies -- Technip SA, EniSpa, and Saipem Construction.

The charges allege that engineering contractor KBR, until 2007 a subsidiary of Halliburton, was among companies that paid bribes to secure a $6 billion contract for a natural gas plant. KBR pleaded guilty to the same bribes in a US court in 2009, and agreed to pay a $382 million fine. The Nigerian charges appear to stem from the US case -- though, in that trial, Cheney was never directly charged.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/halliburton-500-million-cheney-prison/

[tabatha]

1. Fix a bribe with another.

[Matariki]

8. Just what I was about to post.

[BanzaiBonnie]

19. That was the first thing I thought

Just bribe the whole country.

[aquart]

2. Hold out for more, Nigeria. They've got deep pockets.

[Amonester]

15. Yep. And especially from the cheney no-bid contracts, which means...

the national debt.

And who's gonna pay the national debt?

cheney deserves only one thing: a life term in prison (don't care where).

[aquart]

16. He's a walking corpse.

The kind that really makes you hope Hell exists.

[saigon68]

20. An evil Draft Dodger

[glinda]

3. I say they break the bank. See how much Cheney is worth to the Corps.

[Dem2theMax]

4. Let's see. How many Democrats, donating x number of dollars.....

Could we convince the Nigerian government to take Cheney and lock him away? Just askin'. :evilgrin:

[tomm2thumbs]

5. Haliburton got one of those emails: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

They fell for it!

'First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'Top Secret'. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence.

We are top official of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer into your account the said 'trapped funds'.

The source of this fund is as follows; during the last military regime here in Nigeria, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. The present civilian government set up a contract review panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment.'

Hahaha - PLEASE DEPOSIT 500 MILLION DOLLARS IN AN ACCOUNT TO TEST IT AND WE WILL IMMEDIATELY WIRE YOU A HUNDRED GAZILLION BACK.

not

[glinda]

6. Bwahahahahahaaaaa!

[avaistheone1]

17. LOL

[customerserviceguy]

7. For half a billion dollars

Halliburton could hire enough mercenaries to devastate Nigeria. I think this story is just wishful thinking.

[girl gone mad]

10. They made $6 Billion from the contract.

$.5B is pocket change.

[customerserviceguy]

13. It's 12.5% of the contract you mention

How would you feel about a 12.5% retroactive reduction from your paycheck, when for half of that, you could simply have your boss shot?

[Arctic Dave]

9. If anyone owns Halliburton stock call their HQ and demand they not

waste corporate profits on ex CEOs personal legal problems. ;)

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Seems like a waste of 500 million to me...

I mean, what if the head of Halliburton, is a greedy S.O.B, laughs and says, screw you Cheney, we got ours!!

Just sayin' :shrug:

[Frustratedlady]

12. That's a drop in the bucket to what they stole from us in Iraq.

They had their cash cow by the teats and wouldn't let go.

Besides, if Cheney isn't guilty, why are they bargaining?

[rocktivity]

14. Hey, maybe this is REAL reason why Obama did the tax compromise

Extending the Bush cuts would certainly help reimburse Cheney!

:tinfoilhat:
rocktivity

[Catherina]

18. Let's hire two shady women to go down together to the police station

and say he raped them during consensual sex and they were so surprised when the condom broke.

Maybe then Interpol will do something.

One can always dream.