What Cheney Did at Halliburton

An in-depth look at his tenure there finds a decidedly mixed record. One major blunder: Acquiring an asbestos albatross with Dresser

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October 26, 2004 at 4:00 AM UTC

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By Mike France and Stephanie Anderson Forest

Halliburton (HAL ) has the misfortune of being one of those rare companies that becomes a Presidential campaign issue. Citing a wide array of alleged misdeeds -- including accounting fraud, bribery, bilking the government, tax evasion, and trading with rogue nations -- Democrats are suggesting that Vice-President Dick Cheney, who was chief executive of the Houston-based oil-services and construction giant from 1995 to 2000, is unsuited to be reelected Vice-President and, more broadly, that Republicans are indifferent to corporate misbehavior.