I’d pay good money for Uncle Fester on the witness stand (aka Cheney)

And the guilty plea, to foreign bribery charges, of former KBR CEO Jack Stanley provides at least a glimmer of hope to the possibility of me having to put a crowbar in the wallet.

Can you imagine the bailiff?

“Sorry, Mr. Cheney, but you can NOT bring that shotgun in the courtroom!”

(Beyond that, something like bribery is probably too soft and subtle for Uncle Fester.)

More seriously, Stanley pled guilty last week to resorting to bribes, kickbacks and high-level corruption to secure deals in Nigeria.

And, remember, KBR was at this time a subunit of Halliburton.

And, “this time” was before midsummer 2000.

Making Jack Stanley’s boss one … Richard B. Cheney.

And, the FBI is investigating this, not the SEC or white-collar folks inside Justice.

Cheney’s office said he would “cooperate fully,” or similar.

BUT!

But… that was before Stanley’s plea, when he was still refusing to cooperate.

Now that he’s singing like a canary in an oil well….

The Veep’s office, not wanting to influence ongoing litigation, refused to comment.