Halliburton is offering a $500 million settlement to the Nigerian government.

[malaise]

to keep the war Criminal Dick out of prison
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/40322/halliburton-nobody-puts-cheney-in-jail/http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/40322/halliburton-nobody-puts-cheney-in-jail/
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As you may already know, Dick Cheney was charged earlier this month for bribing Nigerian lawmakers with $180 million into giving a $6 billion natural gas pipeline contract to Halliburton-owned KBR, which was being run by Cheney at the time.

Considering that bribery is illegal, the Nigerian government has been pushing for an arrest warrant through Interpol, which could result in a sentencing of three years in a Nigerian prison alongside three other top executives for “the 16-count indictment,” says GlobalPost.

With the White House not looking to do much to help Dick out, Halliburton is offering a $500 million settlement to the Nigerian government.

That is half a billion of Halliburton’s money being doled out to protect a man that prosecutors believe is a criminal for helping to bribe “a brutal dictator who has been accused of actually killing people in order to advance the interests of his business partners,” according to John Nichols of “The Nation.”
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I always laugh when private companies accuse governments of corruption when they are the ones who offer money to promote their agenda.

[democrank]

1. Dick Cheney..

America`s very own war criminal.

[malaise]

3. The good news here is that

the WH is not doing anything to help out the war criminal of a dick.

[Tunkamerica]

2. Money talks and Dick Cheney rides off in a nuclear powered wheelchair.

[bullimiami]

4. since bribery is still illegal shouldnt they indict Halliburton for offering the 500M?

[mopinko]

5. that's what i was thinking

although, perhaps that is what they are after- a bigger bribe.

[spanone]

6. payback for making them billions

[Coventina]

7. Beware Nigeria! It's a scam! If they ask you to wire $5000 to their

bank first, just walk away!!!

[sabrina 1]

8. Reading about Nigeria, all the corruption

in that country came from the presence of Corporations there, bribing the police, government officials and anyone who gets in their way.

Now the government is trying to clean up the corruption and indicting Cheney/Halliburton and Shell (revelations in the Wikileak Docs show how Corps have been 'deep inside the government' for a long time) is a good place to start.

I hope they turn down this bribe. Even though he won't ever be arrested, unlike Julian Assange, on the Interpol warrant, it should go on his record that someone held him accountable for his corrupt, criminal activities, at least some of them.

[Horse with no Name]

9. How much money went missing in Iraq?

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought.
We the People are bailing him out.