Former head of Halliburton firm faces seven years in jail for bribery
A former boss of a Halliburton subsidiary has pleaded guilty to bribing Nigerian government officials in a corruption scandal that overlaps with Dick Cheney’s leadership of the Texas-based oilfield services conglomerate.
Albert “Jack” Stanley faces seven years in prison after admitting violations of America’s foreign corruption practices act between 1995 and 2004 when he was head of KBR, a construction company formerly known as Kellog, Brown & Root which was part of Halliburton until it was spun out as a separate entity last year.
Over the nine-year period, KBR was a member of a consortium which won four contracts to construct liquefied natural gas facilities on Nigeria’s Bonny Island. For part of the time, between 1995 and 2000, the overall chief executive of Halliburton was…
