Dick Cheney Charged With Bribery In Nigeria

Nigerian investigators say Halliburton executives paid millions of dollars to government officials to build a natural gas plant.

After all the controversial things he did during his time in Washington, it looks like Dick Cheney might be facing the music an ocean away in Nigeria. Investigators there have charged him and nine other people with paying up to US$180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to help secure a natural gas project in the country for Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellog, Brown, and Root. Nigerian officials say the bribes may have gone all the way to the top, possibly even to then-president Olusegun Obasanjo. In the past, Cheney’s lawyers have denied all wrongdoing in the case, but KBR and Halliburton pleaded guilty to related charges levied against them in the U.S. last year.