Halliburton fires two consultants

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Jun. 18, 2004

Halliburton fires two consultants

Associated Press


HOUSTON - Halliburton Co. has fired a two consultants - one of whom was also the retired chairman - of a subsidiary under investigation for alleged involvement in paying $180 million in bribes to get a natural gas project contract in Nigeria.

The Houston-based oil services conglomerate announced Friday it is "terminating all relationships" with consultant A. Jack Stanley, who retired in December 2003 as chairman of subsidiary KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root. The company also said another consultant and former employee of M.W. Kellogg, Ltd., a joint venture in which KBR has a 55 percent interest, has been fired. The individual was not identified.

Halliburton terminated the pair because of violations of codes of business conduct "that, to Halliburton's knowledge, involve the receipt by these persons of improper personal benefits," the company said without elaboration.
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"It is important to the company that clients, suppliers and host countries know that Halliburton's code of business conduct is expected to be followed in every country in which the company operates," said Dave Lesar, Halliburton's chairman, president and chief executive.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8956337.htm
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[Hawkeye-X]

1. Now if they only declares Chapter 7 bankruptcy

and liquidate their assets back to the United States under Kerry.

Hawkeye-X

[htuttle]

2. "that..involve the receipt by these persons of improper personal benefits"

Oh, there's the problem. Never EVER steal from the Bush crime family.

BushCo didn't get their vig, that's why they fired these guys.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

3. Cheney chose Stanley!

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=5315

Halliburton acquired KBR as part of its purchase of Dresser Industries in 1998, at which time Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive. Mr. Cheney picked Mr. Stanley, who headed KBR when the consortium was formed to bid on the Nigerian LNG project, to run the companies' merged engineering division.

[saigon68]

4. Why am I not Surprised

Birds of a feather

[sofa king]

5. Two consultants and a VP: potentially HUGE breaking news

I can't start new threads and I don't have a citation, but I have a rock solid confirmation that KBR (a Halliburton subsidiary) has accepted the resignation of the VP in charge of contracts.



This, in combination with Vice Presidential Chief of Staff "Scooter" Libby's taking a bullet for his boss on the Halliburtion no-bid contracts issue could be the other shoe dropping that Josh Marshall hinted about over at www.talkinpointsmemo.com . You heard it here first.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Friday afternoon scandal coverup

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was told in 2002 that Cheney's former company would receive no-bid work to secretly plan restoration of Iraq's oil facilities, but the information wasn't given to the vice president, a White House official said yesterday.

Kevin Kellems, Cheney's spokesman, told The Associated Press he confirmed the decision not to inform Cheney with the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

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http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=national&story_id=061604b2...


Those guys must have been paid very very well

paying $180 million in bribes to get a natural gas project contract in Nigeria.

Using their own money :eyes: