{"id":2999,"date":"2009-02-11T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T13:54:28","slug":"halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Halliburton, KBR Plead Guilty to Cheney-Era Bribery Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubrecord.org\/law\/676-halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090216_halliburton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/090216_halliburton.jpg\" title=\"090216_halliburton.jpg\" alt=\"090216_halliburton.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Halliburton and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown &amp; Root (KBR), pleaded guilty Wednesday to five-counts of violating federal bribery laws and will pay the federal government $579 million to settle a half decade-long criminal investigation into claims the company paid off intermediaries of the notoriously corrupt Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and some of his subordinates to win a lucrative construction contract for a natural gas liquefaction plant while former Vice President Dick Cheney headed the corporation, the Justice Department announced. Image source: pubrecord.org. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubrecord.org\/law\/676-halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Global<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span>Halliburton<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubrecord.org\/law\/676-halliburton-kbr-plead-guilty-to-cheney-era-bribery-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Public Record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halliburton and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown &amp; Root (KBR), pleaded guilty Wednesday to five-counts of violating federal bribery laws and will pay the federal government $579 million to settle a half decade-long criminal investigation into claims the company paid off intermediaries of the notoriously corrupt Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and some of his subordinates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-halliburton","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}