Will Cheney ever get away from his affiliation with Halliburton and KBR? Maybe not.
It seems that KBR, the firm that managed much of the housing for reconstruction staff in Iraq when I was there in 2004 - 2006, also was charged with paying huge bribes to get large contracts in Nigeria during the time that Cheney was Halliburton's CEO.
So, the anti-corruption agency in Nigeria is planning to sue Cheney. I have written HERE about problems the former anti-corruption Chief in Nigeria had about 2-4 years ago, but is sounds like they have started up again.
What is funny is just this week I saw an ad for an anti-corruption Sr. Audit Manager for KBR's operations in Houston.
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Nigeria Plans to Charge Cheney in Case of Bribery
By REUTERS - published by NY Times HERE
Published: December 2, 2010
LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) — Nigeria’s anticorruption police said Thursday that they planned to file charges against former Vice President Dick Cheney in a $180 million bribery case involving a former unit of the oil services firm Halliburton.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission summoned the country chief of Halliburton on Tuesday and last week raided its Lagos office and detained 10 staff members.
“We are filing charges against Cheney,” said Femi Babafemi, a commission spokesman. But he declined to give further details on what the charges were, or where they would be filed.
The Houston-based engineering firm KBR, a former unit of Halliburton, pleaded guilty last year to charges in the United States that it paid $180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion in contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas project in the Niger Delta.
Mr. Cheney was the chief executive of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, when he resigned to run for vice president.
KBR and Halliburton reached a $579 million settlement in the United States. But Nigeria, France and Switzerland have conducted their own investigations into the case.
Halliburton split from KBR in 2007 and has said that its current operations in Nigeria are unrelated. It has described the raid last week as “an affront against justice,” said its offices were ransacked, and pledged to defend its staff against what it said were “completely false and outrageous actions.”
The company said in a statement last week that “one of the participants” in the Bonny Island project “was a subsidiary of Halliburton Company for part of that period of time,” but that Halliburton’s oil field services “have never in any way been any part” of that project.
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