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.
Interesting between the tax exemptions and all the court cost, attorney's fees, salaries, paper shuffling, etc..... no telling.
I agree with that. I think what set folks here so wrong, other than the fact that he aparently never completes, much less wins, a case, is the fact that he came right out of the gate assuming Bush was corrupt....with no proof at all. Now, if there WAS corruption, that's one thing; but to those of us here, who ARE politically savvy and smell corruption a mile down the road, Klayman started accusing Bush of stuff where there wasn't "any there there."
That's why we end up with press releases like these and the threads that accompany them. If you don't agree, take a look at dead's thread from tonight.
For what it's worth, the one that put me over the edge was the attack on Laura Bush. No matter how he dressed it up, it was a cheap shot to gain himself some publicity.
The only thing that hasn't occurred to Klayman is that, other than FR, nobody even knows who he is.
If light-hearted Dick has nothing to hide, then he has nothing to worry about.
Let's see how Mr. Integrity handles this one. I'm looking forward to it.
Look, to be honest.. Retoric aside.
I wouldn't have a problem with Klayman losing a few.. Or LOSING ALL of them for that matter.
But I often find myself wondering where his aliegance is.
And that bothers me... Just like this hit piece on Cheney with November still looming in the mist bothers me.
That's just what the Clintonistas said about Linda Tripp. Thanks for the telling remark.
by what crowd? Is that anything like a group?
Everything about it bothers me..
Frankly, because it just looks too coordinated.
Sorry.
Well, now, here's an interesting turn of events. I bet you don't say that on the Constitution threads or the civil rights threads or the "We're losing all our God given rights" threads, do you?
I'm not sure about this lawsuit, but the ones against Cheney's energy task force definitely are costing us tax dollars, are they not?
But, does the Republican party run organized scams as a criminal enterprise? No. Neither are the Republicans about class warfare, destroying the military, or raising taxes.
Now, I realize that it is easy to say that everyone is corrupt, but in fact, that is not true. It is a lie spread over the past 8 years by a group of people who want to make you think that is true, in order to mute the public outrage at their behavior.
Yes, it is true that Klayman's depositions revealed some information on those issues you brought up. And what exactly happened? Nothing. Impeachment happened independent of the Judicial Watch efforts, courtesy of Linda Tripp's information, and had nothing to do with the Ron Brown case or the Chinese missile sale.
In fact, Klaymamn's depositions may have done more harm than good, since he released the information to the public rather than to the Special Prosecutor. Maybe not.
The fact remains, however, that he is behaving badly now. Dick Cheney is one of the most honorable men to serve in Washington. He is a straight shooter. This is a frivolous lawsuit either for JW's publicity needs or to try to create an aura of "corruption" around the White House. It is a bad thing.
Southflanknorthpawsis,
This is the kind of crap that causes me to not like your personality.
I don't care if who I am or what I do is considered to be 'normal', I would much rather just be myself.
And I am not worried about dating or getting married; my future is already written in God's mind.
I don't know whether or not he knows it, but that's probably true. I don't see that as his fault, though, after the decade of corruption Hell we've been through, his name should have been a household name.
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