Richard Bruce Cheney is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States.
In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services; he is still a major stockholder.
From 1995 until 2000, he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company and market leader in the energy sector. Under Cheney's tenure, the number of Halliburton subsidiaries in offshore tax havens increased from 9 to 44. As CEO of Halliburton, Cheney lobbied to lift U.S. sanctions against Iran and Libya, saying that unilateral moves to isolate countries damaged U.S. interests. He also sat on the Board of Directors of Procter & Gamble, Union Pacific, and Electronic Data Systems. According to the CBC's the Fifth Estate During the election campaign Cheney tells ABC News. “I had a firm policy that we wouldn’t do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal.”
However, during his time as CEO, Halliburton was selling millions of dollars to Iraq in supplies for its oil industry. The deals were done through old subsidiaries of Dresser Industries. It was done under the auspices of the corrupt UN Oil for Food Program.
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