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.
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!!!!!!!!
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.
ned, I thought it was suicide?
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.
Every time I read your post, it's this part that gives me a headache!
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?
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?
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.
DING!DING!DING! We have a winner, folks!
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.
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