Palin Rider
12-07-2010, 09:02 PM
I got this email from Dick Cheney the other day:
Dear Friend,
My colleague in Halliburton received nearly $5 MILLION in payments from Nigerian officials before he passed away. I am now unable to transfer this sum out of the country, and I need YOUR help.
Please send me your bank account information, with...
(I hit the Delete key after that.) :laugh:
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said.
The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials, said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Halliburton and other firms allegedly paid the bribes to win a contract to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, he said.
Source (http://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/131886085/nigeria-charges-cheney-in-alleged-bribery-scheme?ft=1&f=1001)
Dear Friend,
My colleague in Halliburton received nearly $5 MILLION in payments from Nigerian officials before he passed away. I am now unable to transfer this sum out of the country, and I need YOUR help.
Please send me your bank account information, with...
(I hit the Delete key after that.) :laugh:
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said.
The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials, said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Halliburton and other firms allegedly paid the bribes to win a contract to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, he said.
Source (http://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/131886085/nigeria-charges-cheney-in-alleged-bribery-scheme?ft=1&f=1001)