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Bush-Cheney White House Obstructs Halliburton Laws
For Immediate Release
Jul 26, 2002
BUSH-CHENEY WHITE HOUSE OBSTRUCTS HALLIBURTON LAWSUIT
Process Server Threatened With Jail By White House Security
White House Refuses to Allow Complaint to be Lawfully Served On Vice President Cheney
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the
public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
public corruption, today reported that security staff at The
White House threatened a process server with arrest over his
attempt to serve Vice President Cheney with a complaint
filed against him by Judicial Watch on behalf of
shareholders of Halliburton. It is a crime to interfere with
service of process.
According to an affidavit of due diligence filed in the case, the process server attempted to serve the complaint on the Vice President at The White House and was told by a security officer that he would not accept the “papers” for the Vice President. According to the process server’s sworn statement, the security officer said that “if I dropped them [the federal court summons and complaint], he would arrest me.” The attempted service was made on July 22, 2002.
No lawyer for Vice President Cheney has contacted Judicial Watch to accept service on the Vice President’s behalf.
“We have served many a lawsuit on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton when they were in The White House. The Clinton White House accepted the papers. Never before have our process servers been threatened with arrest. If this Bush-Cheney White House is serious about corporate corruption and responsibility, it would not allow the Vice President to improperly hide behind White House security to evade service of process in the Halliburton securities fraud litigation, and it would not threaten the process server with arrest,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
Judicial Watch will continue to attempt service on the Vice President and will move for appropriate sanctions if Vice President Cheney continues to obstruct court process. Mr. Cheney is not above the law.
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