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Cheney's KBR CEO GUILTY of Nigerian Bribery: 30 Months Sentence!
From DoJ's website:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-crm-249.html
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WASHINGTON – Albert “Jack” Stanley, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Kellogg, Brown & Root Inc. (KBR), was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by participating in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud as part of a separate kickback scheme, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced.
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Who was Jack's supervisor?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was Stanley’s immediate supervisor when Cheney was CEO of Halliburton.
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Albert Jack Stanley is named as chairman of the new subsidiary. The Independent (UK) reported that "Mr Stanley had been appointed to his senior role at Halliburton by Mr Cheney when he was chief executive between 1995 and 2000." (The Independent, Oct. 3, 2004.)
The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Cheney "named Mr. Stanley � to a top post at the company in 1998." (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 29, 2004.)
Cheney told the Middle East Economic Digest in 1999 that, "We took Jack Stanley � to head up the organization and that has helped tremendously." (Middle East Economic Digest, April 9, 1999.)
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/nigeria_timeline.html
The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Cheney "named Mr. Stanley � to a top post at the company in 1998." (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 29, 2004.)
Cheney told the Middle East Economic Digest in 1999 that, "We took Jack Stanley � to head up the organization and that has helped tremendously." (Middle East Economic Digest, April 9, 1999.)
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/nigeria_timeline.html
more:
(lots more links)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/25/1068143/-Cheney-s-KBR-CEO-GUILTY-of-Nigerian-Bribary-30-Months-Sentence-?via=siderec
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