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.
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.
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?
I don't want anything to do with your weirdness or crybaby antics.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
He said it all right. You just don't want to remember it.
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