Nigeria Charges Dick Cheney With Bribery

By on December 3, 2010 in News 19

Georgia US CheneyDick Cheney is facing arrest on corruption charges…in Nigeria. You can’t get much more shady then that. The BBC reports:

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency is to charge former US Vice-President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal that involves a former subsidiary of energy firm Halliburton. The case centers on engineering firm KBR, which admitted bribing officials. Mr Cheney was Halliburton’s chief executive before becoming vice-president to George W Bush in 2001.

KBR last year pleaded guilty to paying $180m (£115m) in bribes to Nigerian officials prior to 2007, when it was a subsidiary of Halliburton. The firm agreed to pay $579m (£372m) in fines related to the case in the US. But Nigeria, along with France and Switzerland, has conducted its own investigations into the case.

Mr Cheney’s lawyer, Terence O’Donnell, said US investigators had “found no suggestion of any impropriety by Dick Cheney in his role of CEO of Halliburton.”

“Any suggestion of misconduct on his part, made now, years later, is entirely baseless,” Mr O’Donnell said.

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  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    The irony here is so beautiful as to almost defy description. Cheney being charged with bribery and corruption by Nigeria is like…being accused of serial murder by John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. I don’t even care how this pans out…just the satisfaction of watching it play out in all its glory is worth it.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    The irony here is so beautiful as to almost defy description. Cheney being charged with bribery and corruption by Nigeria is like…being accused of serial murder by John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. I don’t even care how this pans out…just the satisfaction of watching it play out in all its glory is worth it.

  • myth_slayer

    Well…of all the crimes that Dick(less) Cheney can be accused of, not using a rubber, or the necessity of ever using a rubber in his All-Lesbian family will not be one of them.

    And speaking of criminals, is there anyone in that anti-American, anti-US Constitution, parasitical demonic family who isn’t a criminal?

    Cheney, America’s No. 1 draft-dodging cowardly perv….

    • 5by5

      Speaking as a lesbian American, I should let you know that the community has revoked both Lynne and Mary Cheney’s respective memberships, and demanded the return of the complimentary toaster they were given when they signed up.

  • Anonymous

    Well…of all the crimes that Dick(less) Cheney can be accused of, not using a rubber, or the necessity of ever using a rubber in his All-Lesbian family will not be one of them.

    And speaking of criminals, is there anyone in that anti-American, anti-US Constitution, parasitical demonic family who isn’t a criminal?

    Cheney, America’s No. 1 draft-dodging cowardly perv….

  • Andrew

    Do the Nigerians hang those found guilty of bribery?

    Doesn’t matter, Obama would never extradite.

  • Andrew

    Do the Nigerians hang those found guilty of bribery?

    Doesn’t matter, Obama would never extradite.

  • 5by5

    Speaking as a lesbian American, I should let you know that the community has revoked both Lynne and Mary Cheney’s respective memberships, and demanded the return of the complimentary toaster they were given when they signed up.

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  • Anonymous

    “Bailiff, Whack his Pee-pee!”

    –Cheech and Chong

  • GoodDoktorBad

    “Bailiff, Whack his Pee-pee!”

    –Cheech and Chong

  • radiac

    Ugh, this is lamer than Capone going down on tax evasion charges. But I’ll take what I can get.

  • radiac

    Ugh, this is lamer than Capone going down on tax evasion charges. But I’ll take what I can get.

  • peterappleby21

    There is something called an “Anti Corruption Agency ” in Nigeria??? My jaw has just dropped to my solar plexus! The next thing you will be telling me is that there is democracy in China!

  • Peter Appleby

    There is something called an “Anti Corruption Agency ” in Nigeria??? My jaw has just dropped to my solar plexus! The next thing you will be telling me is that there is democracy in China!

  • Anonymous
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  • http://www.facebook.com/prateekp Prateek Panchal

    I lol at the anti corruption agency and that too in nigeria. It looked fun lol……
    But if it is true…..l its a great decision.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/prateekp Prateek Panchal

    I lol at the anti corruption agency and that too in nigeria. It looked fun lol……
    But if it is true…..l its a great decision.

    http://www.voyageafrica.net/lagos-nigeria-tourism.html