Where the buck stopped

That settles that. Or does it? The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Halliburton Inc. $7.5 million for the company's accounting sleight-of-hand that boosted reported business results in 1998 and 1999. The SEC also fingered two financial executives for their alleged culpability but had nothing to say about Halliburton's chief executive at the time, Dick Cheney. (Full Article: 597 Words)

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