Sorry, This Story Just Died Too Soon Here !!!

French Judge Wants Cheney to Testify in Halliburton Scandal

<snip>

A French judge is threatening to subpoena – and even to prosecute—the Vice President of the United States in a huge scandal involving Halliburton, when its CEO was Richard Cheney.

At the center of the controversy is a $6 billion gas liquification factory built in Nigeria on behalf of Shell Oil by a French petroengineering company, Technip, in partnership with Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown & Root. Cheney is wanted for questioning about an untraceable 120 million pounds (US$216 million) that may have been siphoned from the project in 1995 and used to bribe officials in several countries.

The conservative French newspaper LeFigaro reported last month that a prominent French investigative judge, Renaud van Ruymbeke, wants testimony from Cheney and will subpoena him if he does not come forward voluntarily. The former director general of Technip, Georges Krammer, reportedly has told Judge Van Ruymbeke that there was a “black box” used to pay $180 million in “commissions” in connection with the project.

<snip>

Link: http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=1346&blz=1

This was on the BBC broadcast and on NPR today!!!

Shouldn't we give it a boost???

:shrug:

will probably mysteriously reverse it's position on Iraq contracts to France and the issue will disappear. :-(

how on earth can a French judge force Cheney to show up in court in France? Wishful thinking, unfortunately.

They'll slap the cuffs on him and haul his ass into court!

I bet he'll be despondent about not being able to stand by the Sienne on a moonlit Paris night.

Personally, I'm disappointed that he won't get the chance to fall in and drown - it would be SO appropos.

"Lick Bush" Buttons, Stickers & "Lick Bush" Buttons, Stickers & Magnets[/center>

We can have convicts and wanted criminals wherever we want here. I'm telling you, the majority of America does not give a shit what is going on with our country. As long as they can buy a big mac and watch Survivor.

This country is so backward ass. I, seriously, hope the dollar, collapses. It will impact me and many more much worse, but this country needs a wake up call.

Sneering Dick is untraceable.

straighten out those Frogs...

Being an American is a real bitch these days, ya know???

:shrug:

over the energy policy task force. he obviously thinks he's above the law in America...maybe he'll end up like Kissinger, unable to travel to most countries in the world, an international pariah, even more so than he is already.

Can he be tried in absentia? And convicted?

hope that Cheney will be pulled from HIS spider hole and held accountable. But, alas, responsibility and accountability are not an option with these thugs! :puke:

jenn

:kick:

Isn't that just the way we do business here in the good ole USofA?

Sheesh. No wonder this administration hates the stoooopid Frenchies. No business sense at all.

I was pleased to hear the report on NPR this morning. I hope they keep up with it. Every little bit helps.

Thom

anything to reveal the deceit of Dick Cheney...he is the ultimate of deceit.