Cheney still has ties with Haliburton panel concludes

[TryingToWarnYou]

<http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/news/companies/cheney/index.htm>

A congressional report concludes that, under federal ethics standards, Vice President Dick Cheney still has a financial interest in Halliburton, the energy services company he used to run.

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The report says that the deferred compensation that Cheney receives from Halliburton as well as the more than 433,000 stock options he possesses "is considered among the 'ties' retained in or 'linkages to former employers' that may 'represent a continuing financial interest' in those employers which makes them potential conflicts of interest."

"As this C.R.S. report shows," Lautenberg said, "The ethics standards for financial disclosure is clear. Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton."

On Sept. 14, Cheney said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press" that "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

Cheney has insisted in the past that the deferred compensation was set up long before he became a candidate for the vice presidency. The money is insured in case the company goes under and Lautenberg acknowledged that the compensation received so far has been donated to charity.

Lautenberg also acknowledged that the president and the vice president are both exempt from the enforcement of ethics laws.
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How special....I thought this was going to be something till I got to the last paragraph and sentence.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. When did the pResident and the VP

become exempt from the enforcement of ethics laws? Can someone show me a link to this fine bit of legislation?

[Chico Man]

2. What are the chances he is a goner?

We need to get this fool under oath. Is this all part of the plan?

[Whoa_Nelly]

23. MISTAKE???

"I believe the vice president is an honorable man," Lautenberg said at a news conference, "I just think he made a mistake."

On Sept. 14, Cheney said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press" that "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest.

I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

BUSH HAD TO KNOW!!

It's time to start. Am writing my senator tonight, as well as other senators such as Byrd, Kennedy, and also sending to Dean.

:kick:

[Maeve]

3. Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics! We are the law!

:eyes:

[The Magistrate]

7. People Will Not Like To Hear That, Ma'am

To keep hearing that these reptiles are exempt from a law, particularly one they are clearly violating, is the sort of thing that gets right up a body's left nostril.

[Maeve]

10. Let's hope it does, sir!

And tickles something fierce!

A good sneeze might get rid of the offending snots.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. SO: cheney has financial ties to halliburton

and halliburton is profiting from the war, and cheney personally pressured the CIA to provide cooked-up evidence for the war....then by the transitive property of equality (if a=b and b=c then a=c) he is a scumsucking war profiteer and war criminal not to mention treasonous bastard.

But since he's exempt from ethics laws, we'll just let this one slide. :eyes:

[Wickerman]

13. Interesting that war profiteering and genocide

are not covered by ethics investigations but lying about a blow job is enough to get impeached and threatened with removal from office...

transient morality, I love it.

[Mandate My Ass]

14. A civil suit would be sooooooooooooooooooo

sweet. The widow or parent of a deceased GI might summon enough outrage at this "little ethics slip-up" to drag that lying sack of shit into court over this.

[Nottingham]

5. Rich get Richer! Scrooge was like that! GoldPlated Pacemaker

Sometimes I think How Much Money do you Need! You can't take it with you???

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Which charity did he donate to?

He probably laundered the money through a private school voucher program that had no financial accountability.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. WAMY?

Gotta keep his buddy Osama in clean scarves and robes.

[The Magistrate]

9. Most Likely, Sir

To one that supplies retirement funds for feeble former executives who have held office as Republicans.

A number of "issues groups", too, count as charities....

[Mandate My Ass]

12. Campus Watch

So his wife Lynn can make up those nice long McCarthyite lists of librul college professors who display their lack of patriotism by pointing out the multitude of lies and crimes committed by George and Dick.

[bif]

11. So why aren't people pissed about this?

And why doesn't this get more coverage? And why doesn't he have to obey the law?

[LearnedHand]

15. My question, exactly!

Hey, media! PLEASE wake up (or at least, get yer fingers outta yer asses) long enough to smell the stinkin' shit!

[underpants]

16. The stock options means he still benefits the better they do

The deferred compensation is fixed and that is a very common practice but the stock options are still currently tied to the company performance. The higher the stock goes the more he makes.

Ethics smethics this is a direct violation of the blind trust law/rule that the Prez and VP must adhere to.

[trapper914]

17. Instead of "Meet the Press,"

they should've gotten Cheney to say he had no ties to Halliburton while under oath. They could at least get him for perjury.

[dArKeR]

18. Cheney’s financial ties to Halliburton - MSGOP

A Congressional Research Service report released yesterday concluded that federal ethics laws treat Vice President Cheney’s annual deferred compensation checks and unexercised stock options as continuing financial interests in the Halliburton Co.

http://msnbc.com/news/972131.asp?0cl=c3

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. Time for a Class Action Suit!!

Based on conflict of interest.

Go to H-E-Double Hockeysticks, Cheney!


ok...I'll say it :-)

GO TO HELL, DICKWAD!

O8)

[Spazito]

20. Ya gotta wonder...

what part of" I own stock in Halliburton and, by coincidence, I can get Halliburton some no bid contracts that will influence the stock price" doesn't the public understand? A + B = C is about as simple as it gets, imo. I own stock and can influence the value of the stock ergo I benefit from the stock. Like, hellooooooo!

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. Wouldn't be fun...

that IF Cheney has to go through a full audit, and IF enough US citizens join a class action suit against him for conflict of interest, (not to mention being a lying fuck), that some nice 'n' neat li'l ol' portfolio pops up that shows put options on the airlines? :evilgrin:

...and when did Dickie start his DC bunker? Was it before or after Sept. 11?

[WesWing2004]

22. i read Halle Berry, lucky dude

but he'd kick off before 1st base!

[Zech Marquis]

24. Crashcart is still on the Halliburton payroll

of course he made sure his corporate buddies got so many sweetheart deals with his old pal Darth Rummy at the DoD. Did anyone actually think Old Crashcart gives a shit about us little people?

Never, ever trust a man who talks from the side of his mouth, especially one with much blood and oil in his hands :evilgrin: