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.
You're right. I couldn't care less. ROFL !!!!!
No, not a coincidence at all. The Dems were in power, and he went after them (he was essentially the only one, BTW, besides Donald Smaltz). Besides that, he HAS hrrassed Daschle and other Dems, and he was slamming Clinton in this very press release.
But bring it up with him. Do you think you really will get to ask him some questions? I sincerely would be interested to know how any interview goes. But don't ask him crappy, whiney, loaded questions like hostile interviewers usually do; ask him hard but objective questions.
Maybe Jim Rob should try to have him on a forum here at FR.
PS: I know of no certain corruption by Cheney or Bush, and I readily admit that. But they don't get a free pass from me just because they're on a different team than Petty Traitor Slick. When something looks fishy, I want to take a better look, not scream at the person charging corruption. I don't trust them, because firstly, they are politicians, and most importantly, they have promoted and lauded people I KNOW to be corrupt as hell.
All the questions that could have been asked have been asked..
They just didn't or couldn't answer.
From where I sit, it just flat looks bad for Larry Klayman.
If there is corruption within the Bush Adminstration, I would like to see it come to light, rather than bury it behind what we would like to believe.
(Just kidding).
There's no doubt I'm not normal.
Maybe these ladies are just trying to cajole you into posting a photo of yourself. ;)
Couldn't we just change the last word to Judicial Watch and have a thread about Larry Klayman and his unanswered financial questions?
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