Halliburton throws over two little fish in Nigeria bribe scandal

[BurtWorm]

Does anyone know who these guys are and how well they know Cheney/Bush?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Halliburton.html?pagewanted=print&position=


June 18, 2004
Halliburton Fires Two Consultants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:20 p.m. ET

HOUSTON (AP) -- Halliburton Co. has fired 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.

Stanley's attorney, Lee Kaplan in Houston, declined comment Friday.

Evidence of the violations emerged from an internal company probe.

[sofa king]

1. KBR Vice President Also Resigns

I mentioned this over in LBN, but this seems a good place to mention it too. I have highly reliable information that Halliburton subsidiary KBR has accepted the resignation of Admiral Joe Lopez, the VP for government Ops.



This, in combination with "Scooter" Libby's seppuku on the no-bid contracts and shooting these little fish in the barrel, stinks of classic Friday afternoon scandal coverup. Watch this closely--it's going to be a helluva ride.

[BurtWorm]

2. Wait a minute... Scooter Libby? Seppuku?

Whuh?! Really? Today?

[sofa king]

5. Seppuku can be an agonizingly slow process.

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.

(slightly more)

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=national&story_id=061604b2_waste_side

I'm telling you guys, this is a classic political fire trench designed to protect the Vice President. I know this resignation is related, somehow. I can feel it in my bones, but I don't have quite enough information to put it all together just yet.

[BurtWorm]

6. Oh, that!

Right. So Scooter Libby dutifully protects Cheney's deniability, just like a good little member of the Iran-Contra Party.

[seemslikeadream]

3. 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:

[BurtWorm]

4. And the government had nothing to do with it!

:eyes:

[BurtWorm]

7. Stanley, by the way, was Cheney's handpicked guy to head KBR

after Halliburton acquired it from Dresser in 1998. The scheme to bribe Nigerian officials into giving KBR a piece of a concession in violation of US trade laws lasted from 1995 to 2002.