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United States of America

Richard Bruce Cheney (Dick)

Date of Birth: 30 January 1941
Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska


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On the bribe trail

Questions are mounting about the involvement of United States' oil services company Halliburton in the distribution of US$180 million of allegedly corrupt payments on a $10 billion gas export project in Nigeria made while Dick Cheney (now US Vice-President) headed the troubled corporation (AC Vol 45 No 13)...


The net widens

Despite scepticism about the US investigations which cover the period whenVice-President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive US officials insist their probe is progressing vigorously...


Gas leak

A Paris-based lawyer involved in the TSKJ case said Halliburton may have believed the French investigation was a thinly veiled attempt to target US Vice-President Dick Cheney through a probe into the operations of Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)...


Gasmen

Dick Cheney Vice-President of the United States (2000 to date) and former CEO and Chair of Halliburton (1995-2000)...


At a crossroads

In the United States it tests the much proclaimed political independence of the judiciary as the matters under investigation are linked to Halliburton and refer to a period when Vice-President Dick Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of the company...


Blowback

Two familiar questions are asked of US Vice-President Dick Cheney Halliburton's Chairman and Chief Executive in 1995-2000: what did he know and when did he know it...


The quiet pro-American

Officials close to US Vice-President Dick Cheney have said off the record that US sanctions will not be lifted until Libya agrees fully to inspections on 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD)...


Going private against the grain

United States' companies on the shortlist alongside some powerful British rivals include Halliburton formerly headed by the US ex-Secretary of State for Defense and current Vice-President Dick Cheney...


Washington's new pragmatism

Africa is not a priority for foreign policy hawks such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or Vice-President (and former Defense Secretary) Dick Cheney...


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