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.
Which part, "'Pod"? Enlighten me (if you can).
Consider Klayman's record, I bet Cheney's not worried. I bet they had a HUGE laugh over this little gnat coming after them. And that is precisely what is killing Klayman.
If light-hearted Dick has nothing to hide, then he has nothing to worry about.
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?
Or if the "eWW" has nothing to worry about then get on with the IRS Audit. Gosh it's been what some three years now and he's still stalling. Heck it could have been over with and on to his more fruitful things but now he's amassing legal bills and needs the donors to cover for him..... Sheesh, just get the audit over with, especially if there's nothing to hide.
I'm looking forward to it
No, I wasn't able to follow it. But at least the graphic was about a political position of yours. The graphic at #218 on this thread was purely a personally belittling attack, as are the other comments made about FIJC after that.
Unlike others on this thread, I have a record of publicly chastising those ostensibly on the same side of issues as me for their conduct. Can't say I've seen the same from those on the other side of those issues.
I didn't post to your buddy on this thread. She came out of nowhere and pinged her friends to ridicule me, calling me paranoid, among other "bullying and belittling" remarks.
And gosh, where were you to ping the authorities then?
Who do you think pays for the court systems in this country? It's your tax dollars at work, not the donors for 'eWW'. He's clogging up a court system that is already bogged down.
Hint: It was a response to something insulting.
Can you say h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e ? ROFL !!!!
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