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VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD(By Judicial Watch)
Judicial Watch ^ | 7/10/02 | Judicial Watch

Posted on 07/09/2002 4:44:40 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD

Alleged Fraudulent Accounting Practices Occurred At Halliburton

PRESS CONFERENCE
Date: July 10, 2002
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Location: Sheraton Hotel Parlor 1, 495 Brickell Ave Miami, FL

(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.


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To: Paul_E_Ester
Well, blather, peetah and brokenjaw will probably LEAD their broadcasts with news of THIS lawsuit unlike when ole' lar was filing suits against the RATS.

Has he gone after Terry McAwful for the Global Crossing fiasco?

141 posted on 07/09/2002 6:15:37 PM PDT by mombonn
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To: Radioactive
Allot like a dog that is always chasing cars..

Doesn't catch any.. Probably wouldn't know what to do with one if he did.

142 posted on 07/09/2002 6:15:51 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: TLBSHOW
Note that the suit over the Energy Task Force contains an "et al". The et al includes the Bush brothers and Lynn Cheney.

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.

143 posted on 07/09/2002 6:16:06 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: TLBSHOW
Sorry---WRONG!---I'm a person who believes that both DEMopubs and REPulicrats have gotten us where we are today-- a socialist marxist state.

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.

144 posted on 07/09/2002 6:17:25 PM PDT by Radioactive
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To: Radioactive
So how many votes did Harry Browne get when he ran for president?
145 posted on 07/09/2002 6:20:11 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Radioactive
Do you think Klayman would accept the libertarian nomination for Prez?
146 posted on 07/09/2002 6:20:31 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Radioactive
Do you even know what you are talking about?
147 posted on 07/09/2002 6:20:53 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Paul_E_Ester; Trueblackman
Has Judicial Watch ever actually WON a case? ANY case? Small claims? The Peoples Court? I don't think so...can't think of any, but I DO hope they win the (real REVEREND) Jesse Lee Peterson vs. (fake rev) Jesse Jackson Toyota shakedown case. I just got a fund-raising notice in the mail from them on that today. That would be an impressive first victory worth cheering about, IMHO, and may chang my opinion about JW.
148 posted on 07/09/2002 6:23:03 PM PDT by RFP
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To: Miss Marple
>I am telling you, Klayman HAS to be getting money from democrats. Nothing else makes any sense.<

Maybe Klayman's no one's lap dog and maybe Cheney did pull some financial shenanigans Are you naive enough to believe that ALL conservative Pubbies are squeaky clean?

What I'm interested in is how the liberal media will cover this. They passed JW off as right-wing crazies when they were going after Clinton & Co. Just like the people here praised them for going after Clinton & Co.

Judicial Watch: Fair and Balanced public advocacy group?

Maybe that depends on whose ox is being gored.


149 posted on 07/09/2002 6:24:21 PM PDT by jaime1959
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To: TLBSHOW
I do know what I talk about but do you know why you had to ask that question?

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.

150 posted on 07/09/2002 6:27:14 PM PDT by Radioactive
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To: PhiKapMom

Calling Alan Keyes a Democrat plant is stretching it a bit imo.

151 posted on 07/09/2002 6:27:32 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Miss Marple
IF you start it, I will join.

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.

152 posted on 07/09/2002 6:28:29 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Radioactive
Whoa! Loosen up the tin foil hat a bit, you're beginning to implode.
153 posted on 07/09/2002 6:28:36 PM PDT by looney tune
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To: jaime1959
They have this say to larry.

Go Larry Go!


154 posted on 07/09/2002 6:29:52 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Radioactive
you haven't shaken a thing.
155 posted on 07/09/2002 6:32:29 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Radioactive
You know, you can keep spewing that junk about Cheney and Bush being as corrupt as Gore and Clinton...I just don't buy it.

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.

156 posted on 07/09/2002 6:35:24 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Ben Ficklin
There is no way that Klayman would ever be allowed to be the Libertarian presidential candidate. He is not a libertarian. Quite the opposite. Even Ron Paul had to work hard to earn the Libertarian nomination. No one as corrupt as Larry Klayman has a chance.

Klayman would love to be the vice-presidential candidate behind John McCain on whatever Ross Perot can put together in 2004 (Reform? Independent?).
157 posted on 07/09/2002 6:35:54 PM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: terilyn
I'm listening to lawyers on the radio news criticizing President Bush's call to accountability for corporations....lawyers in America today...lecturing the President on ehtics? This day is just one big dungheap of hypocrisy.
158 posted on 07/09/2002 6:36:35 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Miss Marple
Then I can send out fundraising letters asking for donations to watch the watchdog. Ha!

Hey, I'll donate :o)

159 posted on 07/09/2002 6:39:48 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: PhiKapMom
PhiKapMom, I applaud your alert and inquiring mind, but I just happen to know that in this you are wrong. Larry Klayman really and truly despises Bill and Hillary Clinton and all of their crowd. Of this I am 100% convinced. I simply cannot be that bad a judge of people, and Klayman simply cannot be that good an actor, especially since he is so transparently dishonest on so many other things.

No, it's Perot. Perot, Perot, Perot, Perot, Perot.
160 posted on 07/09/2002 6:40:39 PM PDT by Iwo Jima
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