http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2233-2003Sep25?language=printer
Cheney's Ties to Halliburton
Deferred Compensation Package Counts, Report Indicates
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2003; Page A07
A Congressional Research Service report released yesterday concluded
that federal ethics laws treat Vice President Cheney's annual
deferred compensation checks and unexercised stock options as
continuing financial interests in the Halliburton Co.
Democrats have aggressively challenged Cheney's claim that he has no
financial ties to Halliburton, despite those arrangements.
The Houston-based energy conglomerate has been awarded more than $2
billion in contracts for rebuilding Iraq, including one worth $1.22
billion that was awarded on a noncompetitive basis.
The report, from the law division of the congressional research arm
of the Library of Congress, said deferred salary or compensation
received from a private corporation -- as well as unexercised stock
options -- may represent a continuing financial interest as defined
by federal ethics laws.
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