Halliburton Settles SEC Charge from Cheney Years: "Halliburton Co. will pay $7.5 million to settle charges that it failed to disclose a 1998 accounting change at a time when Vice President Dick Cheney headed the company, authorities said on Tuesday.
... By failing to disclose the change, Halliburton issued misleading profit statements in 1998 and 1999, the SEC said.
Cheney served as CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000. He "provided sworn testimony and cooperated willingly and fully in the investigation," the SEC said in a statement "

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