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VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD(By Judicial Watch)
Judicial Watch ^ | 7/10/02 | Judicial Watch

Posted on 07/09/2002 4:44:40 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD

Alleged Fraudulent Accounting Practices Occurred At Halliburton

PRESS CONFERENCE
Date: July 10, 2002
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Location: Sheraton Hotel Parlor 1, 495 Brickell Ave Miami, FL

(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.


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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Even if Registered did do something like this, if you did not appreciate it, you shouldn't do it back.
641 posted on 07/09/2002 10:52:20 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: FreedominJesusChrist

And I believe that you do.. I truly think you are a good guy with good intentions. BUT, you have to see the other side of things here..

Forget everything in the past.. all the failures.. whatever.

He slandered Cheney (and that's what it is till he proves it in a court of law) on the day Bush delivered a speech about corporate responsibility.. Right before the election.. Broken by the NYT.

From here, without proof

It looks allot like Klayman is open to the highest bidder.

If Cheney is dirty I will be the first one to call for him to step down.. But coming from LK and all other factors taken into consideration it really looks like a smear.. and a calculated one at that.

642 posted on 07/09/2002 10:52:23 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Your profile page really sucks.
643 posted on 07/09/2002 10:52:42 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Jhoffa_
Yes, but they are also filing a civil suit. If this suit is not outright dismissed by the presiding judge, Klayman may really be onto something here. I believe that he is.
644 posted on 07/09/2002 10:54:27 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
Judicial Watch is only trashed by people who do not like consistency.

Take a look at this very thread. Look how many people posted on this very thread that they think JW is a joke.

Now look at how many people DEFENDED JW.

Are all the rest of us liars and Klayman haters? How can this many of us be wrong and you and about four people be right?

645 posted on 07/09/2002 10:54:53 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
Last warning, Beckie. STOP POSTING TO ME !!!!!

I don't want anything to do with your weirdness or crybaby antics.

646 posted on 07/09/2002 10:55:12 PM PDT by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: Jhoffa_
Perhaps you should also consider that there is no "Proof" showing that JW is the corrupt criminal enterprise that many here claim it to be.

Isn't that a hoot? Actually claiming to need PROOF to show Judicial Watch is corrupt, all the while NOT SHOWING ANY PROOF that the Bush Administration is corrupt, but asking for money to take it to court anyway!

648 posted on 07/09/2002 10:57:11 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
I really do not believe you to be a liar, but I definately you believe that you are a hata. :)

I have never been swayed by popular opinion anway.

Howlin, we have been arguing about this for months now. I don't believe that we will ever see eye to eye on this one.

649 posted on 07/09/2002 10:57:31 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Gee, South - even when you're attacked, it's your fault. Funny how that works around here.
650 posted on 07/09/2002 10:57:33 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: Fred Mertz
Talk to Registered. He did it.
651 posted on 07/09/2002 10:57:36 PM PDT by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: deport
You're kidding about that badge, right?

If not, man, that's sad. Klayman gets a "Galls" police supply catalog and rips off the mindless.

I almost feel sorry for the first idiot to flash this to get out of ticket who ends up in the pokey on a criminal impersonation charge.
652 posted on 07/09/2002 10:58:06 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: one_particular_harbour
It makes her look bad regardless of the past. One would assume that she would be above the tactics that she despises.
653 posted on 07/09/2002 10:58:52 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: Fred Mertz
Well, you said Cheney shouldn't be worried, so Larry shouldn't either, right?

BTW, Klayman at first claimed that he was fighting the IRS audit so he wouldn't have to release his donor list. If he's so careful with his list, why did he sell it to the RNC people?

654 posted on 07/09/2002 10:59:18 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
I don't remember him claiming that, per se.
655 posted on 07/09/2002 11:00:07 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
One would assume that she would be above the tactics that she despises.

Words to live by, huh, Freedom?

By all means, don't blame Registered for throwing the first punch. Don't blame him for the things he creates. You never do.

656 posted on 07/09/2002 11:00:29 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
See for yourself: JW STORE
657 posted on 07/09/2002 11:01:00 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I wasn't around when it happened. This situation is between South, Howlin, and Registered.
658 posted on 07/09/2002 11:01:31 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: FreedominJesusChrist

Okay, maybe.. And maybe this will turn into something big.

BUT, if it's nothing.. If it washes out, then what has Klayman done?

He's hurt us over nothing right before the election and handed the democrats something they couldn't get legitimately.. AN ISSUE.

And for that I am angry..

Now you run along and come back when you have a conviction.

If you do, I will post in all caps in a +4 font. But till then it means nothing, well.. except as a non-issue the democrats can slander us over when they have nothing else.

659 posted on 07/09/2002 11:01:35 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
Per se? ROFLMAO.

He said it all right. You just don't want to remember it.

660 posted on 07/09/2002 11:01:50 PM PDT by Howlin
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