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Dick Cheney firm under investigation.

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  • 05-02-2004 5:21pm
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    Sleipnir
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    Well, well, well. It's not about oil & money. It's never about oil & money is it?


    "A multinational company with links to US Vice-President Dick Cheney is under investigation for alleged involvement in paying bribes to build a natural gas plant in Nigeria. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating allegations that Nigerian officials were paid $180m to grant the contract for the facility to a consortium including Kellog, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton. The $4bn Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Plant was built by the consortium in the 1990s. At the time, Mr Cheney was chairman of Halliburton. A French magistrate is also investigating the bribery allegations and has said that embezzlement charges could ultimately be filed against Mr Cheney in Paris."


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    bonkey
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    Funny....

    the last sentence in that article immediately made me think that this is just what Chirac needs to direct attention away from himself.

    After all, he's getting slaughtered (politically) for the actions of certain members of his "inner circle". Now, all of a sudden, here's the exact same thing happening to the US government's inner circle...and there's a French involvement.

    Oh the fun and games....

    jc


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    Fudger
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    are we really surprised though?????


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    emertoff
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    If you believe Michael Moore :D then the entire Bush administration represents nothing more than a giant corporate love-in that would be considered completely inappropriate by the standards of most Western democracies. And yet they claim to be the most free and democratic nation on earth.:confused:


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    Sleipnir
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    That is what the bush administration stands for. All of his most senior advisors (e.g Cheney and Powell) and multimillionaires.
    Not to mention his financial supporters.


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    bonkey
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    Originally posted by emertoff
    If you believe Michael Moore ...

    Well, that would be your first mistake right there ;)

    jc


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    sovtek
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    Originally posted by emertoff
    If you believe Michael Moore :D then the entire Bush administration represents nothing more than a giant corporate love-in that would be considered completely inappropriate by the standards of most Western democracies. And yet they claim to be the most free and democratic nation on earth.:confused:

    It ain't just Michael Moore :D


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    chill
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    Yep.

    AND Cheny is in the middle of another storm because it has come how that he and Justice Scalia from the Supreme Court went 'duck hunting' recently on Air Force 2 while Cheny is actually the defendent in a Supreme Court case that Scalia will be sitting on.
    I cannot imagine any Judge socialising with a defendant due to appear before him... it's madness !


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