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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: Luis Gonzalez
Good luck. You maybe only one of a very few. If so then you'll be able to get several questions in so have yourself a list of good ones to ask.....
341 posted on 07/09/2002 8:35:56 PM PDT by deport
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To: Miss Marple
The democrats blame it all on Rush Limbaugh. LOL
342 posted on 07/09/2002 8:36:12 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: kristinn
Ahem, where were you when I was followed from thread to thread and called a liar and a socialist by one of our fellow Freepers?
343 posted on 07/09/2002 8:36:21 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: A Citizen Reporter
Politeness dictates that I refer to this bunch as a "crowd".
344 posted on 07/09/2002 8:36:41 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Nice try, Tattletail.

Newsflash.......What Linda Tripp was privy to and your pathetic little complaint are not of the same universe.

But you just go ahead believing that they are on equal par. Bwahahahahahaaha!!!!!!!!

345 posted on 07/09/2002 8:37:03 PM PDT by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: Fred Mertz
You really do want to believe the worst about Cheney.Why's that? Because Larry does? Notice that Larry mentioned no specifics.I would think an old trial attorney like Joe Jamail in Houston would be all over Cheney if there was some dirt to stick.

And you are supposed to be such an independent thinker, too...
346 posted on 07/09/2002 8:37:09 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Howlin
Since when did they become a non-profit educational group. Education for what? How to scam people out of their money?
347 posted on 07/09/2002 8:37:18 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: Miss Marple
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

And time and again he has answered his accusers on this. Most recently I saw was on a Sunday Morning Talk show. He was up front and refuted each lie as it was brought to him. he seemed more to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

maybe Larry needs the money from his Dem base.

348 posted on 07/09/2002 8:37:23 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
I like a truly repentent snitch, whose snitching on criminals. Rare, I know, but when they come around, I love them like the father loved his Prodigal Son.
349 posted on 07/09/2002 8:37:25 PM PDT by agrandis
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To: agrandis; ned
I would also like to point out that Chinagate would not have come to light (and I think Ron Brown would likely be alive today) if not for JW's litigation.

ned, I thought it was suicide?

350 posted on 07/09/2002 8:38:12 PM PDT by Amelia
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To: Howlin; thinden; mancini; rdavis84
Do a Google search on Halliburton, Brown & Root and see what turns up.

Lots of their megaprofits occurred during the Clinton years. Halliburton was an eager beaver nation building, government contract sucking globalist enterprise.

Take 30 minutes and do a little research, and then come back here and defend ol' ticky Dick.

Actually, he's only one of many in that organization. I hope Larry Klayman exposes lots of them.

351 posted on 07/09/2002 8:38:14 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: deport
"$ 4,172,968 (16%) Educating the public "

Every time I read your post, it's this part that gives me a headache!

352 posted on 07/09/2002 8:41:26 PM PDT by A Citizen Reporter
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To: habs4ever
Actually, I distrust Halliburton more than I distrust Cheney.

He's a smooth operator with a bad ticker, but that Halliburton conglomerate needs to go through the ringer. IMHO of course.
353 posted on 07/09/2002 8:41:45 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
I've done the research.

But now we're talking about you saying if Cheney hasn't got anything to hide he should worry about a Klayman lawsuit.

Is that what you say about the Patriot Act? Is that what you say about the FBI?

354 posted on 07/09/2002 8:42:28 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: kristinn
Hi there.I just knew you'd have got a ping sooner or later.

Glad you didn't disappoint me by not stopping yourself from wringing your hands, and clucking ,and tut-tutting over that the sad state of affairs on FR.

No one does false sanctimony better than you.
355 posted on 07/09/2002 8:42:38 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Fred Mertz
So you are saying making a profit it wrong? What are you saying? I thought only a socialist would object to making money. A good business man knows what it takes to be profitable. who works to lose money? Thats idiotic.

Ill-gotten gain is what Bush and Cheney are after.

They are being scandalized by the liberals *cough* who want nothing more than to bring them down and put in their tax&spend boys.

So, where do you fit in?

356 posted on 07/09/2002 8:42:43 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Fred Mertz
You know, large companies do work around the world. That is how they became large companies. If you were going to specialize in oil field services and mine construction, it would be pretty hard to make a dollar just doing business in the USA.

My husband actually was in the running for a job at Brown and Root/Halliburton, which would have taken him to Eastern Europe. He ended up being offered a job here in the states, or we would be one of those evil globalists right now.

357 posted on 07/09/2002 8:43:11 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Fred Mertz
BTW, are you on the record as being against profits??
358 posted on 07/09/2002 8:43:12 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: PhiKapMom
How to scam people out of their money?

DING!DING!DING! We have a winner, folks!

359 posted on 07/09/2002 8:44:05 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: agrandis
I would also like to point out that Chinagate would not have come to light (and I think Ron Brown would likely be alive today) if not for JW's litigation.

Someday, when you get a chance, why don't you sketch out a summary of the evidence connecting Judicial Watch to the death of Ron Brown? I've seen others around here try it, but it has never made any sense to me. All we ever hear around here is about the x-rays that weren't very good and that the good ones have been concealed or never taken at all and that all of that somehow proves that there was no proper autopsy, or maybe no "real" autopsy, or maybe no autopsy at all and, by the way, there were no signals from the aircraft and it really didn't crash because of the weather, etc. And, in the end, nothing emerges but the same old circular nonsense.

So, if you can figure it all out, be kind enough to let us all know exactly what it is that Judicial Watch was talking about in all of those urgent fundraising letters.

360 posted on 07/09/2002 8:44:06 PM PDT by ned
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