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.
" Although I understand what you are saying, I am sure that Klayman would not be too touched by the comments and slandering that people here throw at him. People here need to remember that he is a human being too. "
Many would say that slander is exactly what Larry is attempting against our VP. I notice that you really haven't remarked on the content of the post.
(1) IMO, this is not an unreasonable theory, PKM. These criminals operate in a tangled web of these kinds of simple conspiracies, simply because they like it - they're in a habit of operating that way. I strongly suspect Kenneth Starr, but won't attempt to elaborate now.
(2) PKM, you asked: Can anyone tell me just what was discovered by Klayman that wouldn't have come out anyways?
I was able to dig out my old files, and am dying to answer, but how do I write a book for no money 4 hours befor a long road trip? This is what is frustrating about this forum! The answer I will have to give you tonight is, A BUNCH!
(3) Given the nature and the sources of the information forced out by Klayman, it is impossible in my mind that he was working incognito for Bill Clinton.
(4)If you can show me that Larry Klayman was involved in the Perot campaign, I will personally work to expose Klayman as an inside job. In my days in Arkansas, I was told by a good friend of Clinton's (who is now dead from a shot to the head, like so many others) who also knew Perot, and had some mutual friends with Perot. He told me that perot was working to get Clinton elected. Perot was ahead at the time, and he hadn't done his weird in-and-out-of-the-race routine, and I didn't believe him. But as time went on, I saw that he really did know Perot about as well as he knew Slick, and that he was telling thetruth. So, if Klayman worked for Perot, Klayman is no good in my book.
(4)But I don't know that Klayman worked for Perot, and as I see it right now there were only two good guys, that I know of, in the battle against the Clinton Crime Machine. ONe is Larry Klayman, and his organization. The other one is Donald Smaltz, the IC that was in charge of the investigation of Mike Espy et al. There were possibly some congressmen who were also true good guys, and there was one man I know of who quit Starr's team, because he said Starr was compormised and throwing many of the leads.
Sorry we can't talk all night. At tmies like these I'm inspired to collate it all and write it all down, but then I remember how little most Americans even give a damn about what is really true. As soon as you step on their favorite team, or hurt their petty pride, they cover their ears and close their eyes.
I'm relatively sure you won't believe or give credence to a word I have written, but I had to write it.
Stay well, and think.
I am constantly being sniped..
You obviously missed the great "Divorce" thread..
( I am frankly amazed Mr. Robinson didn't just ban the whole forum and post to himself for a month, the flameout that turned into.. )
Well, since YOU know the facts of these "cases," although there is nothing close to that in this press release, why don't YOU tell us all what the "cases" are........especially the one about Bush, as I haven't heard about that one yet. Klayman filing that one tomorrow?
I was being serious, there is nothing embarrassing about being thrifty.
I think he likes to watch..
(KIDDING! Please don't key my car!)
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