Friday, June 18, 2004
DOUG IRELAND, The Nation,
DOUG IRELAND, The Nation,
Dick Cheney and the $5 Million Man
While CEO of Halliburton, Cheney, funneled $180 million into a slush fund to pay bribes in the construction of a $6 billion Nigerian gas refinery.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally opened a formal investigation into allegations that Halliburton (in partnership with French petro-engineering company Technip) funneled $180 million into a slush fund to pay bribes in the construction of a $6 billion Nigerian gas refinery--a scandal that French authorities have been probing for a year.
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