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.
Why would 4 reputible AFIP officers ruin their careers to lie about this out of the blue? Is it an elaborate conspiracy theory in itself? Maybe that evil Richard Mellon Scaife paid them all to lie and take a dive going against their superiors.
I'm not trying to get smarty, here, but that single question (the first question I ask above) alone seems to incite further curiosity, doesn't it? I would love to get back to you regarding ROn Brown, if I do get a chance (I'll be travelling for a week starting in about 4 hours, so it will be iffy). I have studied that affair fairly comprehensively, and even helped my sister put together a synopsis of it for a class she was taking. I'll brush up on it and see if I can put it all together, for you and others.
Because there's nothing good on TV?
It seems it is not one-sided. There is an exchange going on.
So's the Son of Sam..
And here's the news.. He's going to be really dissapointed to see me express my feelings about him.
I myself have a few questions for Mr. Klayman, if he ever shows up in this neck of the woods. Until then, I will trust that Luis is professional enough to perhaps some serious answers. Unless he is barred from the press conference, at which point I will know exactly what to think.
Then turn it off. Unplug the computer.
The strange leftist Dan Rather once wrote a book (or somebody did for him) called "The Camera Never Blinks". The premise being that if someone is on TV enough eventually you see what they are about. The same thing applies to someone like Klayman and JW. After a period of time people figure out what they are about. And Klayman has shown himself to be all bark and no bite.
In the past few years the most sickening business activity I have seen has been the "pumping and dumping" of public companies. Especially the "dot.com" companies equities. NONE of the companies Bush or Cheney were involved in were those types of companies. In comparison, they were real businesses.
Klayman and JW seem just like these "pump and dump" shysters. They are all PROMISE and no delivery. They are not what they promote themselves to be. They don't do what they say they will and apparently NEVER intend to sometimes. Seems to be a con for money. Just like the ruthless stock promoters.
JW's 15 minutes was up some time ago.
No knee jerk reactions. If you think about it and you still don't agree, then fine.. We don't agree.
Just don't come out of the box with pre-conceived notions about "bashing" or anything..
That's all I would ever ask from anyone. I think that's the height of fairness and the highest standard by which any idea can be measured.
Again, you speak as if you have authority on who I really am, when in fact, it is obvious that you have no clue.
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