44 million....gee that is a lot of money....until one compares it to the just the severance package for the head of Exxon who got over 400 million just in severance pay.
He pulled down over a Billion dollars in his career with Exxon.
Conflict of Interest....not quite. If Cheney used his position as Veep to steer contracts to Halliburton I would agree but that did not happen.
Brown and Root, along with many other such outfits have been doing business with the DOD since the 1960's for sure....and clear back to WWII days. Recall civilian construction workers were at Wake Island at the outset of WWII and assisted in the defense of the island only to be taken POW with many of them being murdered by the Japanese at the very end of the war.
While we are talking about the topic....let's discuss William Jefferson, D-LA, who takes cash bribes, Duke Cunningham ex-R-CA who is serving prison time for extorting bribe money, and a host of other folks in Washington that have their hands out.