Halliburton may pay $500 million to keep Cheney out of prison

[Profreedomokie]

I just wish Cheney would take Obama deer (not bird) hunting.

 

[RickN]

All of the upper management of any company caught bribing should be thrown in prison. If you're at that level, you have obviously worked yourself up thru the ranks and know about kickbacks and bribes. If shady business deals are required to do business in foreign countries, then U.S. owned businesses should not do business there. By condoning and participating, we are incentivizing this type of behavior. Meanwhile, the stockholders of the company get screwed on the loss of their money in lawsuits, bribes, and defense.

Great ideals but the real world does not work that way. If a US company tried to operate that way they would have very little business outside the US, go broke, and lay off what few people they still have working in the US.

To give you some idea how screwed things are, after the disaster in Indonesia a few years back we went to deliver a load of donated wheelchairs and other medical equipment. They wanted us to pay bribes for the plane to land, to let the stuff be unloaded from the plane, etc, etc. I said screw you and took them elsewhere.

 

[ttown]

Damn have you ever been out of the country? There's a lot of things that take place for money that's fraud in the US that would throw you in jail here. If a customs agent wants something you best give it to them, that a service fee and a money grab by a lot of countries....get real Cheney isn't going to Nigeria any time soon so what makes you think they'd pay any ransom on him .

 

[radarmonkey]

I don't care what ya'll say, he's one funny S.O.B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qdb6wC0Iz4

Not my favorite VP of all time, but in the top 3 for sure. I think 'ol Sheriff Joe is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ