Cheney to be Prosecuted? (By the French)

News24 [Cape town, SA] ^ | December 20, 2003 | Agence France-Presse

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Paris – A French prosecutor is examining whether to prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro said on Saturday.

The case stems from a contract by a consortium including the American company Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a Halliburton subsidiary, and a French company, Technip, to supply a gas complex to Nigeria, the newspaper reported.

A Paris investigating magistrate has been conducting investigations since October into allegations that $180m were paid in secret commissions during the late 1990s up to 2002 from funds established by the consortium in Madeira, the report said.

Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive between 1995 and 2000.

In a letter to the attorney-general's department, magistrate Reynaud van Ruymbeke ruled out directly prosecuting Cheney on a charge of bribing foreign officials, Le Figaro said.

But the official did not exclude the possibility of prosecution on the grounds of complicity in misuse of corporate assets, it added.

[King Prout]

waitwaitwait...
the French... want to prosecute Chaney... because his company paid bribes... IN AFRICA???
One bribes in Africa. That is simply the way it is done. This is bushwah.

[The Great RJ]

Cheney should send the French a message--MERDE.

[b4its2late]

Do you think it is it any coincidence that French rhymes with stench?

[Cobra64]

Cheney should send the French a message--MERDE.

Should I ask the French-looking John F-in Kerry an email asking him how you say "fukc you" in French, and then forward it to monsieur Jock-Strap Chirac?

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Vous êtes un morceau de merde.

My French lingers behind my Spanish but this I recall.

[SandRat]

The French they are all bug eating

[NeoCaveman]

Fruck the Fench.

[struwwelpeter]

Il est foutu le temps des cathédrales
La foule des barbares
Est aux portes de la ville
Laissez entrer ces païens, ces vandales

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Some things you must find/learn on your own.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Paris – A French prosecutor is examining whether to prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro said on Saturday.

Come get him.............maybe around resolution #100324 is the time.

[He Rides A White Horse]

It's nation whose national motto seems to be, "Please punch me in the face"

[gridlock]

A UN employee of my acquaintance would always report the bribes he had to pay while working in Nigeria on his expense report as "MISC: BRIBES". The accountants back at the Home Office would have fits with him, asking him to report it as anything else but that. They provided tons of money to be paid out as bribes for everything from getting through the airport to getting your bags back from the hotel, but they did not want to actually have a record of that fact.

It is simply not possible to do anything in Nigeria without bribes.