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.
I agree!
Oh, what comparison?
If you post it, it's going to come back at you. So stop posting it unless you want it discussed.
That's alot different than what was going on here in relation to FIJC.
IOW, it would blend right in.
LOL !!!!!!!! Priceless........You LP folks are really a hoot.
Here I go again, searching down things nobody gives a darn about. I just have to fulfill my own curiosity, if nothing else.
The LAST thing I need is your remarks atop that of the rest of FR..
No m'am.. make yer own linkage.
OMG, you just cannot possibly be this dumb.
The evidence is right here on this very thread. There are a very few loyalists left.......and curiously, they are always the ones that show up to defend Keyes as well.
Maybe he could afford the Holiday Inn Express now, I don't think it's a fleabag.
I sent him money too. Then I called their office and quickly figured out that I was talking to a marketing outfit. I had some experience with some "creative" nonprofits so I started looking at their 990's and I posted questions why their financials were not on their web site. I've asked why JW does not post their financials dozens of times here.
I basically don't care what JW does. As long as they do so without the nonprofit status. But since they are a nonprofit it's open season on them. And other nonprofits such as the ones tied to Jesse Jackson, NAACP, PETA, The Brady Gun Grabbers, etc,etc.
JW makes me want to see two things. 1) Non-profit corporation reform. Something I've posted about here since the first day I found FR. 2) Tort reform. Lawsuits like the ones JW files should be loser pays. Automatically.
This is another thread about Klayman crying wolf just one more time. He has collected 65+ million the past few years and has maybe 15 million in the bank. So, I expect that he is not near done.
!!!!!Oh, wonderful. As I'm typing this CBS news just mentioned that Cheney is being sued and that "it was coming from the CONSERVATIVE group JUDICIAL WATCH". Klayman was even blabbing something. He got air time all over the country just now.
Ah....but someone had that pulled. Humor only goes one way for some very small people.
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