Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case - Bloomberg:
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| Itchy trigger finger. |
Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in an interview today at his office in Abuja, the capital. An arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” the world’s biggest international police organization, he said.
My hunch: the outcome of this will be a Nigerian prosecutor winding up with a muzzle-load of birdshot in the face.
