Posted on 07/09/2002 4:44:40 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester
(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the group that investigates and prosecutes corruption by government officials, announced today that it is filing a shareholders suit in Dallas, Texas, against Vice President Dick Cheney and the other involved directors of Halliburton, as well as Halliburton itself, for alleged fraudulent accounting practices which resulted in the overvaluation of the company’s shares, thereby deceiving investors and others.
The suit comes one day after President George W. Bush, who himself is enmeshed in allegations of insider trading when he was an executive, who sat on the audit committee of Harken Energy Company, announced a “plan” to crack down on corporate fraud. Ironically, it would appear that the President’s rush to propose more regulation of private industry is intended to deflect attention away from his and his Vice President’s own alleged improper business practices. President Bush has maintained that he was cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Others have countered that the head of the agency was then an appointee of his father, President George H.W.Bush.
President Clinton and the Democratic Party used a similar gambit when they were caught taking money illegally from foreign donors, including the Communist Chinese. Instead of prosecuting vigorously the Clintons and other guilty politicians, new campaign finance laws were proposed to deflect attention away from alleged crimes.
“Whether it is the Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing, or now the Halliburton and Harken scandals, there is a dangerous intersection between politicians of all stripes, Democrat and Republican, attempting to feed at the trough of business greed. As is true of the Clinton scandals, the American people cannot look the other way just because the President and Vice President are allegedly involved. Indeed, Judicial Watch has already sued Democrat and Republican officials in the Enron and Global Crossing scandals. To look the other way for the Vice President would be to set a precedent that the Washington elite are above the law. This cannot be permitted if our democracy is to survive,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
In 1995 Halliburton was prosecuted and forced to plead guilty to trading with Libya, a terrorist state on the U.S. watch list.
A press conference will be held in Miami at 9:00 A.M. at the Sheraton Hotel at 495 Brickell Avenue to announce and detail this suit.
Has he gone after Terry McAwful for the Global Crossing fiasco?
Doesn't catch any.. Probably wouldn't know what to do with one if he did.
Jeb is included because he signed off on the leases in the eastern gulf Area 181 that Anadarko eventually bought. Lynn Cheny is included because she was a board member at Union Pacific Resources when Anadarko merged wirh UPR and she got a big slug of money out of the deal. The mineral rights that Anadarko got out of the deal were the ones located on western Federal lands that Bush eventually opened for exploration.
I'm a proud libertarian who knows the score. Bush 43 is a new world order guy just as Clinton is just as Bush 41 and so on and so on. I don't care who they are, if corrupt-----GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!
Just because you folks don't like the message, lets just kill the messenger. These people who we are told are the only choice for our leaders are corrupt. The people who control who we get to vote for are the ones who run the show. Labeling someone as a Liberal Or Conservative is just a bunch of hooey. These artificial labels are used by the elite to keep all of us off guard.
So don't go off saying I'm a Liberal or a Conservative---what the heck are we trying to conserve? And what's so liberal about what the Democrats are doing as compared to the Republicans?
THERE ISN'T ANY DIFFERENCE.
I'm shaking your belief system telling you what you should already know---but don't because your daddy and his daddy voted either republican or democrat. Old habits are hard to break.
Face the facts---Bush and Cheney are corrupt--just as Clinton Gore---Just as etc--etc.....All politicians are corrupt---even the ones who are new at the game end up getting corrupted by the system.
Calling Alan Keyes a Democrat plant is stretching it a bit imo.
I actually got a fundraising letter this week from Klayman. Sorry I tore it up and threw it away before this came out so I can't send back the torn up pieces with a choice note.
Hopefully this thread could be printed out by an enterprising individual and emailed or snailmailed to Klayman.
I believe Mr. Klayman now falls into the category of "useful idiot" that the old time communists were fond of yanking around to do their bidding. Wonder how it feels for him to have puppet masters pulling his strings - but him not even being aware (or maybe he is) of the identify of his allies. Larry is supposedly a Christian man. He needs to consider what affiliation with anti-God atheistic communists means for Christians. It is - or should be - ANATHNEMA - to every true Christian to be in such an alliance.
Logically, all of these issues should have been dug up during the campaign. In fact, the Harken case was (as it was in 94 and 98 as well).
Dick Cheney has the reputation of being one of the most ethical people in Washington. Even democrats who opposed him in Congress had nothing but good things to say about his character.
So you go right ahead with yout little rant. I'm not buying it.
Klayman is doing the DNC's bidding, either inadvertantly or as an ally.
Hey, I'll donate :o)
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