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Halliburton Will Pay $559M in Nigerian Bribery Fines

The settlement is the second-largest under the current law

By Clay Dillow, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2009 9:24 AM CST

(Newser) – Halliburton will shell out $559 million in fines—the largest federal penalty ever paid by a US company for bribery—to the Justice Department and the SEC to settle claims that its former KBR unit greased the palms of Nigerian officials to help get a... Read full story »

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