another bail out...

[sabra]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/plea-bargain-keeps-cheney-out-of-court-in-nigeria-20101216-18zn2.html

Plea bargain keeps Cheney out of court in Nigeria


Old colleagues ... James Baker, George Bush and Dick Cheney. Photo: AFP

PORT HARCOURT: Nigeria's anti-corruption police have dropped charges against the former US vice-president, Dick Cheney, over a multimillion-dollar bribery case after the energy firm Halliburton agreed to pay up to $US250 million in fines.

The move followed the intervention of the former president George Bush snr and the former secretary of state James Baker, Nigerian press reports said.

The country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it met officials representing Mr Cheney and Halliburton in London last week after filing 16 counts of charges relating to the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in the conflict-ridden Niger delta.

A spokesman for the crimes commission, Femi Babafemi, said: ''There was a plea bargain on the part of the company to pay $US250 million as fines in lieu of prosecution.''

[walldude]

1. Bribed to drop the bribery case.

Unfuckingbelievable.

[aquart]

2. Like there was any chance Nigeria couldn't be bribed.

But why did they settle for half? Did the rest of it wind up in Swiss accounts?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. The other half was, "and we won't send Xe in here to kill any of you"

[katty]

4. dick has always walked away free washing all the blood off

his hands.

[aquart]

5. Dunno. Seems to have dripped all over us.

[EC]

6. So he pays a bribe to not be charged for bribery?.. n/t

[4_TN_TITANS]

7. I work in an international customer service dept.

and this sure sounds like illegal bribery to me. Not that it will ever be investigated or pursued.