Bush Sr., James Baker Instrumental in Getting Nigeria to Drop Bribery Charges Against Cheney

Dick Cheney recently faced bribery charges related to $180 million in bribes that executives working for Halliburton's former subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root paid to Nigerian government officials between 1994 and 2004


Bush Sr., James Baker Instrumental in Getting Nigeria to Drop Bribery Charges Against Cheney
Friday 17 December 2010
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Former President George H.W. Bush and ex-Secretary of State James Baker were part of a negotiating team that convinced Nigerian government officials 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 allegations, participated in conference call discussions with senior Nigerian government officials, including the country's attorney general, Mohammed Adoke, last weekend on behalf of Cheney in an attempt to work out a settlement, according to a report published by an African news agency.

The negotiations took place in London and included Halliburton represenatives.

On Friday, Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the agency that filed the 16-count indictment last week, said the case against Cheney, Halliburton and several other current and former executives has been "formally dropped."

Earlier this week, Babafemi said Halliburton agreed during negotiation talks to a "plea bargain" and to "pay $250 million in fines in lieu of prosecution." He said the Nigerian government accepted the terms of the settlement.

That's our Bush crime family!

We have no chance

99% of everything of value. The remaining 99% of the people will be living and dying in abject slavery and poverty.

That is the probable outcome of the shifting of wealth to the already super rich. But, there may be ways to stop that slide.

Looks like the BFEE took care of their "Nigerian Prince" problem <cough>

Honestly, the chances of Crashcart ever being frogmarched into a court room...espeically one in a country such as Nigeria...were slim to none and slim wasn't looking very good. There is no way this government would extradite him and with his health so frail I doubt he'd be traveling anywhere like Pinochet did to be apprehended. Thus looks like the Nigerians took the money and ran. Better than getting nothing.

The ugly truth in a cash-starved world the economic clout of Haliburton and the Carlisle Group are more powerful than ever.

and I shudder. He is the consiglieri of the Bush crime family.