The $500 Million ChickenHawk

 Posted by at 2:17 am  Politics
Dec 102010
 

It must be international bad negotiation week.  I’m not talking about Obama’s gift of Christmas cowardice to the Republican party.  From the extreme right, a major criminal corporation is may cheating their stockholders by paying $500 million, just to keep one rather worthless ChickenHawk and three of his sycophants out of prison.

10cheneyAs ThinkProgress previously reported, earlier this month, the Nigerian government moved to “charge former Vice President Dick Cheney in a massive bribery case involving $180 million in kickbacks paid to Nigerian lawmakers, who awarded a $6 billion natural gas pipeline contract to Halliburton subsidiary KBR when Cheney was running the company.” As a part of the charge, the Nigerian government is seeking an arrest warrant through Interpol for the former vice president.

Now, GlobalPost is reporting that the company is in talks with the Nigerian government to arrive at a settlement. Sources within the Nigerian government informed GlobalPost that a possible plea bargain could “involve a $500 million settlement“…

…GlobalPost goes on to note that “Cheney and three other top executives could face sentences of three years in a Nigerian prison if convicted of the charges in the 16-count indictment.” One has to wonder how the employees and stockholders of the company feel about it possibly sacrificing half a billion dollars to keep Cheney and other executives out of jail… [emphasis added]

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Is he worth it?  If I was a stockholder, I’d be screaming, not only over the $500 million, but also the missed opportunity for profit.  Progressives would have contributed a bunch in small donations to pay for his plane ticket to Nigeria.

Now I’ll have to change the poll. Annoyed

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  6 Responses to “The $500 Million ChickenHawk”

  1. SoINeedAName says:
    December 10, 2010 at 3:19 am

    December 10, 2010

    Lagos, Nigeria.
    Attention: The President/CEO Haliburton

    Dear Sir,

    Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $500,000,000.00 (five hundred million United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank.

    The transfer is risk free on both sides. I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:

    (a) your banker’s name, telephone, account and fax numbers.

    (b) your private telephone and fax numbers —for confidentiality and easy communication.

    (c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.

    Hey, it looks like those wacky Nigerian Central Bank email scams are going to finally pay off!

  2. Lisa G. says:
    December 10, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Extradite his ass! The shareholders (at least if I were one) would be pissed to fork over all that money to keep the devil himself in the country.

  3. tnlib says:
    December 10, 2010 at 10:08 am

    What a kick in the pants it would be for Cheney to be tried and convicted in Nigeria while his own country holds him unaccountable.

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