Justice Looks Into Halliburton in Nigeria

[DoYouEverWonder]

AP Wire


February 4, 2004, 7:13 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is looking into allegations that a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was involved in payment of $180 million in bribes to win a contract for a natural gas project in Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.

The $4 billion Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Plant was built in the 1990s by a consortium that included Kellogg, Brown & Root during a time when Vice President Dick Cheney headed Halliburton.

Two senior Justice Department officials, speaking Wednesday on condition of anonymity, said the department had requested Halliburton voluntarily provide documents related to the allegations. Those documents, they said, could determine whether or not a full investigation is launched.



Here's another nail for the coffin. The drips are starting to sound like a waterfall. :bounce:

[lovedems]

1. It is like the Chinese Water Torture.

Drip, drip, drip, and each drip becoming more painful and annoying then the last. Halliburton has been in the news daily.

[MasonJar]

2. Oh boy, the fox again investigating the hen house. How terribly

convenient.

[yellowcanine]

3. Wait a minute - Cheney was CEO during that time

Did Asscraft announce his recusal from the case?

[maggrwaggr]

4. little known fact: The Bush family owns a water bottling plant there

My friend who has spent a ton of time in Nigeria says that the Bush family owns a water bottling plant in Nigeria. The locals aren't very friendly about this, paying the Bush family for their bottled water.

She said that Osama Bin Laden used to be very popular there, too, bumper stickers and the like.

They've had some real problems there with the extremist muslims who want Sharia law throughout the country.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Isn't that where Jeb took a plane ride

with a big bag of cash back in the 80's during Iran Contra? The place he was selling those water pumps to?

[NashVegas]

6. The Buried Nugget

A French magistrate, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, is also investigating the Nigerian payments and has said in a memo that embezzlement charges could ultimately be filed against Cheney in Paris. Cheney's aides have refused comment on the allegations.

According to Halliburton's SEC filing, the illegal payment allegations involve a joint venture of which Kellogg, Brown & Root was a 25 percent owner. The other partners were Technip SA of France, ENI SpA of Italy and Japan Gasoline Corp.

vice president Frist? Guiliani?

[Devils Advocate NZ]

7. A Nigerian Scam? How Apt!

Looks like Cheney actually responded to the e-mail...

[yellowcanine]

8. good one.

wish I had thought of that. Maybe that will be his defense.