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.
Sure, but you may have to pay the piper later.... if caught. Why do you think things have changed, his IRS classification. I suspect he's still a non-profit and tax-exempt. Lots of them out there..... Even Jesses Jackson has a few, but only one tax-exempt.
You mean Judicial Watch Watch?
In all seriousness...how much is this clown starting to cost the taxpayers with all these baseless lawsuits?
I'm getting tired of footing Larry's need for attention, and funding.
Find you someone that works in an attorney's office and get them to run the Docket Sheet on the case for you. You'll get the facts from the court
Someone better tell Larry that I'll be there...with some embarrasing questions.
GASP!!
Say it ain't so!
(Lemme guess.. there is just a string of dollar signs and an online order form there now?)
It's understood that in debates on this forum a few insults and flames will be tolerated, but the constant bullying and belittling that has been allowed to go on by this crowd and others is hurting this forum.
When you get there tell him I am at home..
Jabbing pins in my Klayman doll.
Ask him about Donato's $ 100,000,000.00.
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