Nigerian officials have indicted former Vice President Dick Cheney for bribing the Nigerian government in the '90s. The accusation stems from Cheney's reign as CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, and the investigation has been going on for a while. In 2009, KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, plead guilty in U.S. courts to paying bribes from 1995 to 2004 in order to build a liquefied natural gas plant in Niger Delta. While a number of liberals are salivating at the notion of Cheney locked up in a Nigerian prison, few predict that the U.S. will ever agree to extradite him. Additionally, it doesn't help that Nigeria happens to be one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
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