It's official DUERs - straight from the Fox's mouth - Haliburton paid for

[malaise]

Cheney to avoid prison

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/21/nigeria-drops-bribery-charges-cheney-halliburton-m-deal-struck/
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Nigeria's government has reportedly dropped bribery charges against former Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, the energy firm he once headed, after the company agreed to pay a hefty settlement.

A spokesman with Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told Reuters that the country's government accepted a $250 million offer by Halliburton -- an offer made within days of Nigeria filing a lawsuit against Cheney and Halliburton CEO David Lesar, along with other executives and firms.

The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials. Halliburton and other firms were accused of paying the bribes to win a contract to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/21/nigeria-drops-bribery-charges-cheney-halliburton-m-deal-struck/#ixzz18me41P1m
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There are no corrupt politicians without Dicks like Cheney

[derby378]

1. Is anyone surprised?

Ken Saro-Wiwa met his demise at the end of the hangman's rope for doing far, far less in Nigeria than Cheney and Halliburton ever did. And Ken was actually trying to help out people.

[rgbecker]

2. Damn it! says Dick...its like having to pay twice!

[Hannah Bell]

10. taxpayers paid twice, & thrice. halliburton's income = gov't contracts.

[KatyMan]

3. so, in a case about bribery,

the Nigerian government basically took another bribe to make the case go away? :)

[EFerrari]

8. Yep. See how it works?

:)

[Barack_America]

35. Yep. Thus illustrating why criminal and civil courts should be separated.

Absolutely ridiculous that bribes can make criminal charges disappear.

[DrDan]

4. sure am glad we have an administration that wants to look forward vs

pursuing an investigation of the prior bunch of cretins.

Who knows what might be found.

[33Greeper]

5. Droped bribery charges...

because the received another bribe? Cheney is not worth that much.

[bigwillq]

6. But yet, DEMs took impeachment

off the table. :mad:

[progressoid]

9. Hey, we had to keep our powder dry.

[EFerrari]

7. Of course they did.

This sh!t isn't even hidden any more.

[malaise]

20. And that's what's frightening

The question is who didn't the Dick bribe?

[yurbud]

11. So he got out of bribery charges with a BIGGER bribe?

If only all employers cared about their employees that much.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. LOL! Isn't hefty settlement just another way of saying bribe?

[malaise]

21. Kind of like

'Make it go away'. :rofl:

sp.

[obxhead]

14. 250 million

to settle a case of bribes of 180 million.

That's the problem with bribes, they tend to get larger over time.

:evilgrin:

[RKP5637]

15. Money talks and has power. The rest of us just talk. n/t

[redirish28]

16. But of course we HAD to look Forward and NOT backward.....If we don't go after law breakers why

should other countries be allowed.

[hootinholler]

17. Am I the only one who thinks this is ironic?

After bribing their way in they have now bribed their way out.

-Hoot

[bbgrunt]

18. May others be encouraged to join the gravy train.

[Hawkeye-X]

19. Nigeria should send about 100,000,000 e-mails and letters to Cheney

asking for even more money..

Or he'd be kidnapped, bound & gagged and left in the International Criminal Court's door.

Hawkeye-X

[malaise]

24. Bwaaaaaaah hahaha

They'd have to pry him out of the basement, complete with batteries.

[Contrary1]

22. Faux is finally reporting this?

I read it a few days ago on another news site.

[malaise]

23. Many of us posted this days ago

indeed over a week ago

[butterfly77]

25. I thought Cheney/Bush said..

they didn't pay hostage takers..

[malaise]

26. Big oil gets what

big oil wants and fuck anyone in the way.

[alfredo]

27. I love it, Nigeria made Halliburton pay a quarter billion dollar bribe.

[mistertrickster]

29. Oops, you beat me to my point. But it bears repeating, heh. nt

[alfredo]

30. Acting in a dishonorable fashion complicates your life.

I wonder what other countries are going to try to coerce a few million out of Halliburton. You reap what you sow.

[mistertrickster]

28. Considering that it's Nigeria, the "settlement" was also a bribe. nt.

[Nordmadr]

31. So they got out of charges of paying with bribes by paying

with a bribe?

How quaint.

[bushisanidiot]

32. Oh gee. That's a SHOCKER!

but will the MSM even notice or care? no.

[loudsue]

33. For Halliburton, that's pocket change. Nigeria should have held out

for far more than that.

[lame54]

34. The lime in the coconut...

the cause is the cure

bribe your way out of bribery charges

[Ghost in the Machine]

36. Will that Nigerian Finance Minister FINALLY send me my 25 million he's been emailing me about now???

I'm tired of waiting on it, dammit!