VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD(By Judicial Watch)

Judicial Watch ^ | 7/10/02 | Judicial Watch

[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.

[ned]

larry is mad that Bush did not go after x42.

I'd say that's a very charitable view. That almost sounds principled.

[deport]

he gets to hide his donors, just like Jesse Jackson.

Yes but Jesse isn't raking in the bucks that 'eww' is in his 501c3. The other non-profits he has are not tax exempt, thus the donors are giving of their free will without a tax break. Maybe most of Klaymans would also but I suspect many use the tax break.

[terilyn]

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Post #126 on this thread:

To: looney tune

Read it and weep.....

"Printed from JudicialWatch.org

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ALAN KEYES WANTS KLAYMAN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL

JUDICIAL WATCH TEAM HEADS TO PANAMA-WHERE CLINTON & ALBRIGHT WON'T DARE TO TREAD

"THE JUDICIAL WATCH REPORT" SHOW BREAKS NEWS & VIEWS

(Washington, D.C.) Today, on The Judicial Watch Report, Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes named his choice as Attorney General, Larry Klayman. While Klayman has found his calling as Chairman of Judicial Watch, he was flattered by the vote of confidence. Keyes stated:

"I think that we need to put someone in as Attorney General who, among other things, will enforce the law and then get to the truth on behalf of the American people and there's nobody that has been doing that with greater courage and effectiveness-even without any kind of official position-than Larry Klayman."

Also on The Judicial Report, Larry Klayman and Tom Fitton discuss their legal attempts to block transfer of the Panama Canal, and Klayman's trip to Panama this week to attend the "transfer" ceremony and investigate Communist Chinese control of the canal. Accompanying Klayman will be a team of Judicial Watch experts as well as Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus.

During the show Paul Rodriguez of Insight magazine discussed his current article, "Former Aide Fights White House Abuse Alone" and Armstrong Williams analyzed current political dynamics in Washington.

Archives of this week's and previous broadcasts of The Judicial Watch Report are available at www.judicialwatch.org. A complete listing of the show's affiliates is also available on the site. The Judicial Watch Report can be heard in the Washington D.C. area, from 9-11 Wednesday evening on AM 570 WWRC.

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126 posted on 7/9/02 7:58 PM Central by A Citizen Reporter
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[Ben Ficklin]

Thanks for jogging my memory.

[Badray]

"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."

Now that is funny. Remember when the ABA had x42 as their keynote speaker while he was being impeached and fined for lying under oath?

[tomkat]

fred, you know many of us think you're the cat's meow and all that, but ...

like driving ?
like a warm house ?
thank (among others) Halliburton ...

[Texasforever]

[ned]

Now that is funny. Remember when the ABA had x42 as their keynote speaker while he was being impeached and fined for lying under oath?

Just to add a little perspective, keep in mind that the ABA will never invite Klayman.

[olliemb]

I hate to admit this but I once called his radio show to complain why he has not gone after the Senate to find out whom they met with to get their energy plan. First time I call and I got on so fast. There must be a handful of people calling. Anyway, I spoke with him and he blew me off saying that it was not a law to go after the senate. Go figure!!! Thank God I made no donations.

[deport]

Let's see.......

• Russ Verney...... Ross Perot man; Executive Director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party; fired by President Reagan after eleven years as air traffic controller
• David Shippers...... picked to head up the Chicago JW office... Democrat
• Larry Klayman..... voted for the peanut farmer

[olliemb]

I think I know whom you are talking about--she was transfixed on the Riaty case?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

"Does he own shares of Halliburton?"

He is representing people that do.

[ned]

Does he own shares of Halliburton?

Even an idiot-lawyer can have his secretary buy 100 shares and from there one can initiate the steps toward a class action.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Keyes stated:

"I think that we need to put someone in as Attorney General who, among other things, will enforce the law and then get to the truth on behalf of the American people and there's nobody that has been doing that with greater courage and effectiveness-even without any kind of official position-than Larry Klayman."

Thanks. It's this kind of keen insight that keeps Alan Keyes - well, as of a couple of weeks ago - unemployed.

[Iwo Jima]

Klayman agreed to exchange donor lists. He received and used the names from the other list. He refused to give out his donor list. He got cut off from the other lists. He issued vile press releases and threatened to sue. He created a ton of ill will with a lot of conservative groups whose lists he had gotten under false pretenses. I don't believe that there was ever a lawsuit.

[olliemb]

Once when I called JW to complain why they were suing the VP for the energy fiasco, whoever answered said that they thought Clinton was evil. He even asked me if I was surprised that they were not Bush supporters when I told him I assumed he was since he went after Clinton.

[freedom1st]

One of these days, the judge is going to say "Bailiff, slap his pee-pee!" Where did you get this quote..?

This sounds like Firesign Theater.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

What happen to Larry?

Did you ever see Night of the Living Dead? Career pols in DC, leftists and their powerful, seductive friends....constantly bullying, chipping away at confidence while deceptively offering flattery....remember what they did to Linda Tripp?

I wouldn't live in DC without a whole team of exorcists these days. No-accountability = corruption. The courts, the press, the Universities, Osama, EU, Carter and the NAACP...our Pres. and his Cabinet need prayers, and more prayers!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

PLEASE! Is there any way to require JW pieces to be posted under Political Humor/Cartoons?