Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

The company that just keeps on giving... bribes that is:

Halliburton: Workers Took $6M in Kickbacks for Iraq Contracts

WASHINGTON -- Halliburton Co. has told the Pentagon that two employees took kickbacks valued at up to $6 million in return for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops in Iraq, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.... [*]

And...

Nigerian corruption trail leads to US, Paris

Lagos, Nigeria, MAIL AND GUARDIAN

...Nigeria also is following the French probe into allegations that a consortium involving Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root paid about $180-million to win a contract to build the $4-billion-plus Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in the mid-1990s.

Cheney was head of Halliburton for five of the seven years during which the secret payments were allegedly made.... [*]