A federal investigation has found that Halliburton violated the law in mishandling its pensions, including charging some costs of Halliburton's executive pension and bonus plans to the workers' pension fund. The Labor Department has concluded that Halliburton's actions violated federal pension law prohibitions against self-dealing and using pension money for the benefit of the company. Two of the violations began while Vice President Dick Cheney was the company's chief executive.
See "U.S. Inquiry Found Halliburton Mishandled Some Pension Funds", Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times, November 10, 2005