{"id":3587,"date":"2010-12-10T02:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2010-12-10T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:17:40","slug":"the-500-million-chickenhawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/the-500-million-chickenhawk\/","title":{"rendered":"The $500 Million ChickenHawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It must be international bad negotiation week.&#160; I\u2019m not talking about Obama\u2019s gift of Christmas cowardice to the Republican party.&#160; From the extreme right, a major criminal corporation is may cheating their stockholders by paying $500 million, just to keep one rather worthless ChickenHawk and three of his sycophants out of prison.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10cheney\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10cheney\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10cheney.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"326\" \/>As ThinkProgress previously reported, earlier this month, the Nigerian government moved to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6B137I20101202?pageNumber=2\" target=\"_blank\">charge<\/a> former Vice President Dick Cheney in a massive bribery case involving $180 million in kickbacks paid to Nigerian lawmakers, who awarded a $6 billion natural gas pipeline contract to Halliburton subsidiary KBR when Cheney was running the company.\u201d As a part of the charge, the Nigerian government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/6080296\/nigeria_asks_interpol_to_arrest_dick.html?cat=3\" target=\"_blank\">seeking an arrest warrant<\/a> through Interpol for the former vice president. <\/p>\n<p>Now, GlobalPost is reporting that the company is in talks with the Nigerian government to arrive at a settlement. Sources within the Nigerian government informed GlobalPost that <strong>a possible plea bargain could \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/nigeria\/101204\/nigeria-corruption-dick-cheney-halliburton\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>involve a $500 million settlement<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201c<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;GlobalPost goes on to note that \u201c<strong>Cheney and three other top executives could face sentences of three years in a Nigerian prison if convicted of the charges in the 16-count indictment<\/strong>.\u201d One has to wonder how the employees and stockholders of the company feel about it possibly sacrificing half a billion dollars to keep Cheney and other executives out of jail\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/12\/09\/halliburton-500-million-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is he worth it?&#160; If I was a stockholder, I\u2019d be screaming, not only over the $500 million, but also the missed opportunity for profit.&#160; Progressives would have contributed a bunch in small donations to pay for his plane ticket to Nigeria.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now I\u2019ll have to change the poll. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-annoyed\" alt=\"Annoyed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wlEmoticon-annoyed.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be international bad negotiation week.&#160; I\u2019m not talking about Obama\u2019s gift of Christmas cowardice to the Republican party.&#160; From the extreme right, a major criminal corporation is may cheating their stockholders by paying $500 million, just to keep one rather worthless ChickenHawk and three of his sycophants out of prison. As ThinkProgress previously <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/the-500-million-chickenhawk\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}