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Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 02:17:39 EST
Cheney pays $millions to buy his way out of bribery charges – offers new
bribes to Nigerian government to drop filed bribery charges.
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Former President George H.W. Bush and ex-Secretary of State James Baker were
part of a negotiating team that paid Nigerian government officials $millions
to drop bribery charges against Dick Cheney and Halliburton, the oil
services firm he led prior to becoming vice president.
Bush and Baker, whose law firm was hired by Halliburton in 2004 to handle
the bribery charges, participated in conference call with senior Nigerian
government officials, including the country’s attorney general, Mohammed
Adoke, last weekend on behalf of Cheney in an attempt to drop all charges.
Bush and Baker have committed bribery in order to drop charges of bribery
against the former vice-president of the United States – Dick Cheney.
Bribery is *the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of something of
value for the purpose of influencing the action of an official in the
discharge of his or her public or legal duties.*
Nigeria’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) said that the charges were dropped on Friday after
Halliburton agreed to pay the Nigerian government up to $250 million. Bush
and Baker solicited the EFCC with an offering of up to $250 million to drop
charges against Dick Cheney. A felony charge of bribery was dropped with
more bribery.
The United States had been a leader in the multinational effort to end
bribery and corruption in international business practices, a campaign that
has been supported by the United Nations, the Organization of American
States, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
and other multilateral organizations and institutions. When it is one of
their own who has been charged with bribery they send a former president of
the United States and former Secretary of State to make the charges go away
with more bribery. End bribery with more bribery – only in America.
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