Cheney accused of corporate fraud
Cheney ran Halliburton oil company for five years
Wednesday, 10 July, 2002, 22:22 GMT 23:22 UK
A US pressure group has filed a lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney, accusing him of defrauding shareholders in a company he used to run.
Judicial Watch, based in Washington DC, says Mr Cheney artificially boosted the share price of the Halliburton energy company during the time he was chief executive in the 1990s.
The White House has dismissed the lawsuit as "without merit".
In another development, it has emerged that Mr Cheney took part in a promotional video for the disgraced accounting firm Andersen.
The lawsuit was filed at a court in Dallas, Texas, where Halliburton is based. [...] Read the rest at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2119981.stm
© Virginia Metze
Wednesday, 10 July, 2002, 22:22 GMT 23:22 UK
A US pressure group has filed a lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney, accusing him of defrauding shareholders in a company he used to run.
Judicial Watch, based in Washington DC, says Mr Cheney artificially boosted the share price of the Halliburton energy company during the time he was chief executive in the 1990s.
The White House has dismissed the lawsuit as "without merit".
In another development, it has emerged that Mr Cheney took part in a promotional video for the disgraced accounting firm Andersen.
The lawsuit was filed at a court in Dallas, Texas, where Halliburton is based. [...] Read the rest at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2119981.stm
© Virginia Metze
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