Cheney pays $millions to buy his way out of bribery charges – offers new bribes to Nigerian government to drop filed bribery charges.
Corruption, Latest news, World news Sunday, December 19th, 2010Former 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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