Nigerian investigators have filed charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney and other officials have been accused of paying bribes to government officials in order to secure a natural gas project in the 1990s. Halliburton, led by Cheney during the time of the project, has been under investigation for years for bribing Nigerian officials and securing $6 billions worth of contracts. These contracts were part of the liquefied natural gas project in the Niger Delta, a massive and highly lucrative business. Last year, Kellogg, Brown and Root pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges in the United States and paid a $402 million criminal fine, in addition to $177 million to settle civil complaints. Kellogg, Brown and Root was subsidiary of Halliburton back in the late 1990s when former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of the company. However, attorney Terrence O'Connell has stated that "The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated that joint venture extensively and found no suggestion of any impropriety by Dick Cheney in his role of CEO of Halliburton."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/08/nigeria.cheney/index.html
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