Sen. Frank Lautenberg dead at 89

[Mc Mike]

85. Senator Lautenberg on Cheney's Halliburton Stock Options

Cheney appeared on Meet the Press (9/03) to claim that he'd severed all financial ties to Halliburton, and wasn't benefitting from the no-bids, no-oversight, pass-through contracts his administration was awarding to Halliburton. When Halliburton was starting to get the first government contracts awarded after the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 9/05, Senator Lautenberg got together with the Congressional Research Service to expose the fact that Cheney was lying. He continued to receive and hold deferred comp stock options in Halliburton whose value had increased three thousand two hundred and eighty one percent, to $9.2 million dollars, because of all of the contracts he steered to Halliburton.

http://www.lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=254548



He was a great Senator and great American. He served our country well. He will be missed, and his death is a loss to be mourned.