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Cheney Charges Dropped?

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  • John Campbell
    Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies

In return for dropping charges against former Vice President Dick Cheney and other top execs at Halliburton, the company has offered to pay fines upwards of $250 million to the Nigerian anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Halliburton has become for many Nigerians the unacceptable face of foreign investment. Many will suspect that the Halliburton offer is a payoff, the skids for which were greased by bribes to high level officials. I think that is too cynical.  Halliburton would be much too careful for that scenario.