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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: Radioactive
Just because you folks don't like the message, lets just kill the messenger.

You've got yourself a very special messenger, buddy. Do you know what became of Donato's $ 100,000,000.00?

161 posted on 07/09/2002 6:41:45 PM PDT by ned
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To: Iwo Jima
Is Klayman that deluded that some hack attorney, with no track record of being even a player in DC legal and political circles, could even think of being on some short list for higher office??

This guy would have to do what Michael Chertow did do get any profile that would give him traction in any campaign.All Larry has done is appear on NET and the odd CSPAN gathering.

What a loser.
162 posted on 07/09/2002 6:43:15 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: deport
He's branched out and has taken a few stockholder suits now and then. If he's lucky he'll get brought into another suit by real plaintiff attorney's that know what they are doing and he'll get some sort of a settlement out of it.

At the lowest point of my legal career I worked (for a short while) for a law firm that filed stockholder suits and other baseless class actions. There was a network of the same sleazeball Democrat donor ATLA member plaintiffs' attorneys from throughout the country who would join forces on these things, generate several mountains of paperwork and eventually share whopping multi-million dollar fees (while the so-called plaintiffs, the poor old shareholders, got zip). I'd be surprised if any of the usual suspects among the plaintiffs' bar would want to affiliate themselves in any way with Larry and Judicial Watch. There probably are lawsuits already filed against Halliburton, just because these sharks know they can file all the meritless suits they like, and they don't want a publicity-seeking and not terribly competent lawyer like Larry in on the action.

163 posted on 07/09/2002 6:43:51 PM PDT by mountaineer
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To: Miss Marple
"...I can remember being so proud that Klayman showed up at the March for Justice. My sister and I sat and watched the whole thing on C-SPAN."

My wife said the same thing to me a few minutes ago...said Drudge was there also ? Don't ask me as I can't remember what I had for lunch today.

I bought some Halliburton stock right after 9/11 only to have it tank a few days later because of an adverse ruling on asbestos claims on a company they aquired.
164 posted on 07/09/2002 6:46:02 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
What happen to Larry?


"Treason is the Reason" - A Rally at the White House, sponsored by Judicial Watch & FreeRepublic.com on Saturday, July 24, 1999. Click here.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/ois/specials/other/WHrally.gif

165 posted on 07/09/2002 6:46:18 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: mlo
Ha. Democrats do NOT donate to stuff like this, which is why Klayman's revenues are OFF by almost ten million last year.
166 posted on 07/09/2002 6:48:05 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
My wife remembers Clyerman wearing a leather jacket and she thought he looked like a used car saleman.
167 posted on 07/09/2002 6:49:58 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: habs4ever
Klayman is a legend in his own mind. He knows without a doubt that he is so far superior to peons such as George W. Bush that if Bush can be president, then Klayman surely can be. He is bitter, obsessed, and out to prove one way or another that he is superior to Bush. If that means bringing Bush down, then so be it. He would gladly see Bush impeached, convicted, indicted, whatever, anything just so that he could feel vindicated in his conviction that Bush is a nobody and that he, Klayman, is the exalted one.
168 posted on 07/09/2002 6:50:07 PM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: Vidalia
He's off ten million last year from 2000.
169 posted on 07/09/2002 6:51:29 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Iwo Jima
I was only being a wise ass about Klayman and the libertarians.

I agree with you about Klaymen having no alliances with the dems. As for aligning with Perot, that doesn't sound right because Perot is to old and his base has disappeared.

Consider the similarities between Klayman and Nader. There have been articles doubting Nader's ability to take the Green nomination because of age.

170 posted on 07/09/2002 6:51:54 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Somehow I don't think this thread is going the way Klayman hoped.
171 posted on 07/09/2002 6:52:06 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: PhiKapMom
OH!

And PS: Please note that at no time did I refer to you as a "Keyes Basher"

172 posted on 07/09/2002 6:53:23 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
I've asked and asked his supporters to name ANY case he's won, and I have gotten nothing in response. Unless you count the ration of CRAP that comes back at me.
173 posted on 07/09/2002 6:54:15 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
Somehow I don't think this thread is going the way Klayman hoped.

Ya think? I'd say it's running about 99%-1% anti-Larry.

174 posted on 07/09/2002 6:55:10 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: looney tune
"Alan Keyes wanted to appoint him as Attorney General if he was elected President."

" Now that's disappointing. I thought AK had more sense than that.

Remember that there was a time that Klayman was our fairhaired child and that he and Keyes both had a lot of support here. I'm not sure that Alan looks on Larry with much favor these days either. I'm usually a good judge of character, but Klayman convinced me that he was on the side of the angels too.

175 posted on 07/09/2002 6:55:24 PM PDT by Badray
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To: terilyn
Let's make a list of the people who are bashing Bush who can't get into this White House; I'll start.

Klayman

Keyes

Kristol

Limbaugh

McCain

Look familiar?

176 posted on 07/09/2002 6:55:50 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Perot's "base" may have disappeared but his money, his undying hatred of all things Bush, and his connections with Kalyman have not. He does not have to win anything. If he can pull off enough votes from Bush to deprive him of the election, that's all the victory he wants. That might only require 5% or less of the vote.
177 posted on 07/09/2002 6:56:37 PM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: PhiKapMom
His list of donors is classified since he obviously is not going to release them. Why doesn't he want folks to know who is donating?

Good post. It is in order to evade a disclosure of this information that Judicial Watch has been resisting an IRS audit for three years. More recently, Judicial Watch has taken to pleading the Fifth Amendment.

178 posted on 07/09/2002 6:56:46 PM PDT by ned
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To: Ben Ficklin; Iwo Jima
Perot woudl be a good source of income for Klayman. I don't believe he gave more than a perfuntory endorsement to Bush, which I was surprised about because he is the sworn enemy of President Bush (41).

SOMEONE is pouring big bucks into Klayman's coffers. I am darn sure it isn't conservatives, and rank and file democrats are notorious tightwads. So who is funding this guy?

He actually could be taking money from anyone, even the Chinese. With that 501c3 classification, he gets to hide his donors, just like Jesse Jackson.

179 posted on 07/09/2002 6:57:43 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Howlin
Honestly.. I don't know how he's got any supporters LEFT!
180 posted on 07/09/2002 6:57:47 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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