I wonder how the IRS thing is going? This will be years or at least sometime before it gets much play in any court room. Cheney may not even be VP by then if all the specualtion is that he's not going to be on the ticket in 04.
I'm not sure who knew what among these CEOs but I do think if they cooked the books they need to be held accountable and to the fullest extent..... Cheney or not. However that said, I'm not sure that he would have known if faulty accounting was being done as that most likely would have come from the financial side trying to enhance their position.
Not too long thereafter trading was suspended and stock was worthless. CPA's were cooking the books. I lost everything and had to sell everything else to survive. I lost a LOT of money! To say nothing of my home and my marriage.
The owner of the Company and his accountants went to jail for a few years, the VP killed himself. Merrill Lynch took a hit. I survived, and prospered again. I figured gone is gone. I can't cry it back. So get up and get on.
My point is that lots of people have been financially hurt over the years, but this is different because it is so wide spread, or appears to be. All the CEO's are big Political Contributors and to a man Liberal Democrats who started up these companies under Clintons's administration and were pretty chummy with him and McAuliff....like to know about 18 million $$$$ McAuliff made on inside information, although, like Hillary we are to believe it was his financial savvy that made him the big bucks on his $100,000.00 initial investment and over such a short period of time too. Don't suppose Clinton put in a good word for him, do you?
At the lowest point of my legal career I worked (for a short while) for a law firm that filed stockholder suits and other baseless class actions. There was a network of the same sleazeball Democrat donor ATLA member plaintiffs' attorneys from throughout the country who would join forces on these things, generate several mountains of paperwork and eventually share whopping multi-million dollar fees (while the so-called plaintiffs, the poor old shareholders, got zip). I'd be surprised if any of the usual suspects among the plaintiffs' bar would want to affiliate themselves in any way with Larry and Judicial Watch. There probably are lawsuits already filed against Halliburton, just because these sharks know they can file all the meritless suits they like, and they don't want a publicity-seeking and not terribly competent lawyer like Larry in on the action.