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VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD(By Judicial Watch)
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| 7/10/02
| Judicial Watch
Posted on 07/09/2002 4:44:40 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester
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To: Miss Marple
Also.. the timing for this smear is perfect.
You can leak little odds and ends right up to the elections.. Whine about "Big business" and raise the spectre of enron like some 80 story version of Frankenstein's monster.
Of course, I WILL take back everything I said if he's right. But somehow, I think I have safe odds as it is.
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:19:26 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: KS Flyover
ROTFLMAO!
To: deport
Is Larry Janet's date for the big dance party?
To: deport; Amelia; habs4ever
Hey deport, can you find those numbers on JW? You know, the ones that show he took in over $26 million in donations and spent less than $3 million on legal action?
I think we need some facts on this thread.
Thanks!
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:20:49 PM PDT
by
terilyn
To: KS Flyover
ROFL!
To: deport
I guess it wouldn't be fair to complete the IRS audit of Judicial Watch now, would it?
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:21:06 PM PDT
by
ned
To: Jhoffa_
Looks coordinated to time with the President's speech today. How very DNC-ish.
I still want to know where he gets his money. Maybe Cheney will counter-sue and find out. Ha!
To: Patriot7
I will try to be as candid, fair, and judicious as I can with this.
I was one of JW's earliest supporters... and they did uncover things no one else had.
But stuff like this is one reason I quietly dropped support. Far as I know, the difference between Mr. Cheney, and any member of the former corrupt administration is like night and day.
This really looks like "piling on" to me.
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:23:06 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: ned
If the audit was done now, Larry would scream about Cheney and partisan intervention.Why else would the IRS audit such a defender of the true?
To: Miss Marple
Please, tell me again how Klayman is an ethical watchdog. LOL. I don't think anyone can... not the mentally sound anyhow.
I am telling you, Klayman HAS to be getting money from democrats. Nothing else makes any sense.
With lawyers, it's always about money.
To: Jhoffa_
"I WILL take back everything I said if he's right"Recorded and noted.
To: Paul_E_Ester
"Democrat and Republican, attempting to feed at the trough of business greed."
Larry Klayman feeds at the trough of sucker money, pumps up the publicity to garner more and banks it. He and his cohorts couldn't win a lawsuit if their lives depended on it.
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:24:42 PM PDT
by
hgro
To: habs4ever
If the audit was done now, Larry would scream about Cheney and partisan intervention.Why else would the IRS audit such a defender of the true?Well, in fairness to Judicial Watch, many of his cronies around here have pointed out that the IRS should really wait until JW stops suing the government/government officials. It wouldn't look right to make JW come clean with the American people until JW feels that the timing is right.
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:26:38 PM PDT
by
ned
To: Miss Marple
Looks coordinated to time with the President's speech today.
I never made that connection.. But you're right.
Maybe some damage control.. little payback for the "90's" coment.
Maybe someone carefully laying a foundation for november, brick by brick..
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:26:38 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: KS Flyover
OMG! Not just a good one, but a GREAT ONE! I laughed until I had tears in my eyes.
My #1 nominee for Graphic of the Day!
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:28:00 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: terilyn
Hey deport, can you find those numbers on JW? You know, the ones that show he took in over $26 million in donations and spent less than $3 million on legal action?
Well according an article running just the past couple of days it stated his donations had dropped to some $15 million so who knows what 2001 looked like. I"ve not seen the form 990 for 2001. However the other info for 2000 you asked about......
2000 JW form 990- $25,935,456 Direct Public support
- $13,297,454 (51%) Fundraising
- $ 4,172,968 (16%) Educating the public
- $ 1,240,262 (4.7%) Legal action providing representation or acting in capacity of Amicus
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:30:17 PM PDT
by
deport
To: ned
Well, in fairness to Judicial Watch, many of his cronies around here have pointed out that the IRS should really wait until JW stops suing the government/government officials.
He keeps suing government & officials to keep the IRS off his tail - if he gets audited, he'll cry foul.
To: Paul_E_Ester
Thought this was a joke at first. Unfortunately, it isn't.
Larry Klayman can sue anyone he wishes to sue but this is soooo transparent as a publicity ploy timed to capitalize on the CEO scandals that it's pathetic. Suing the VP is rather outrageous but not if JW has something to base the suit on. I doubt it does but we'll see.
Meanwhile, knowing Larry Klayman 's track record I doubt Dick Cheney is losing any sleep over this stupid suit and as Miss Marple suggested, The Vice President should counter-sue - but he won't. Too much class, something Klayman wouldn't recognize if it bit him.
To: Miss Marple
By Jonathan D. Salant
The Associated Press
W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 1 Republican vice-presidential nominee Dick Cheney said today he was fully prepared to forfeit oil-company stock options that he would otherwise continue to hold after taking office if he and George W. Bush win in November.
Cheney made the statement as he prepared to release his financial disclosure forms and 10 years of income tax returns.
In order to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, I am fully prepared to forfeit any options that have not vested by the time I assume office, said Cheney, who recently stepped down as the head of Dallas-based Halliburton Co., the worlds largest oil services company.
Cheney, who was chairman and chief executive of the company, left with more than $13.6 million worth of stock and options, some of which could not be sold yet. Options allow someone to buy a companys stock at a preset price.
Some have urged him not to retain the options because Halliburtons stock price could be affected by actions taken by a Bush-Cheney administration. Unlike stock, options could not be placed in a blind trust, where the recipient has no control over his or her investments.
Its a situation where national concerns are mixed with business concerns, Peter Eisner, managing director at the Center for Public Integrity, a government ethics advocacy group, said last month.
Besides his Halliburton stock, Cheney also holds options granted by Procter & Gamble, the giant consumer products company. They also would not take effect until after Inauguration Day.
Cheney said he would set up a blind trust if elected vice president.
Golden Parachute
He received a multimillion-dollar retirement package from Halliburton, the company he ran for five years. He retained options on more than a million shares he could buy at prices ranging from $21 to $54 each. But many of those options would take effect only after the inauguration.
The tax returns of Cheney, a former congressman and defense secretary, show what a difference the transition into the private sector made.
In 1990, while defense secretary under President Bush, he and wife Lynne reported an adjusted gross income of $225,196 and paid $47,332 in income taxes. In 1999, his last full year as head of Halliburton, Cheney and his wife reported an adjusted gross income of $4.4 million and paid $1.7 million in taxes.
Adjusted gross income is the amount of salaries, interest, dividends, capital gains, rents, and other income, minus deductions for things such as contributions to retirement plans.
Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Cheney_halliburton000901.html
So, Cheney exercised his Halliburton stock options, as much as was allowed by his vesting schedule, in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, and prepared to forfeit those he couldn't sell. He did this in August of 2000.
Had he held on to those options, I'm sure Klayman would have sued him for having a conflict of interest.
Oh, and another thing, Hey Daschole...why don't you disclose your income and your wife's lobbying income? Ya scum!
Klayman is truly a clymer. This is proof positive.
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:32:22 PM PDT
by
terilyn
To: deport
Thanks much!
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posted on
07/09/2002 5:33:26 PM PDT
by
terilyn
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