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Ex-KBR Chief Pleads Guilty to Nigerian "419"

September 3, 2008
Albert Jackson Stanley, erstwhile all-powerful CEO of KBR (a subsidiary of the multi-national conglomerate Haliburton) today entered into a plea agreement with the United States Department of Justice, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, in connection with allegations that KBR and a number of other Haliburton subsidiaries and officials actively bribed Nigerian officials over a 5-year period (1999 - 2004). Mr. Stanley agreed to plead GUILTY to two of the charges levelled against him before the US District Court sitting in Houston, Texas. The plea deal calls for Mr. Stanley to serve a prison term not to exceed 10 years and to agree to supervision upon release. This is in addition to other monetary restitutions that he is expected to pay to the US government for the Nigeria bribery scandal. Ostensibly, Mr. Stanley will be required to fully co-operate with the goverment in the on-going investigations.

Haliburton is the global corporation once headed by Mr. Dick Cheney, US Vice. The company and its subsidiaries have continued to be subjects of various allegations of illicit business practices, including substantial no-bid contract awards related to the US adventure in Iraq. Mr. Stanley was the CEO of KBR at the time of the Nigerian bribery allegations and is alleged to have actively participated in the practices of corruptly enriching multiple Nigerian officials.

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