Although he has not been an employee of Halliburton for years now, Vice pResident Dick Cheny is still on their payroll. One could argue that the money he recieves is merely a “deferred compensation” package, as the article puts it, but seeing as Halliburton’s profits have soared since Cheney’s entrance into the White House, there is definitely more to this, especially considering that the company won the contract for the post-war rebuilding of Iraq.
