Halliburton Under Pressure for Toxic Waste Dumping and Prostitution Arrests

By JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
October 16, 2012

Halliburton, one of the most hated corporations in the world, has been in the news a lot over the past few weeks, and as usual it hasn’t been for anything good.

Halliburton is almost constantly getting bad press, because of their involvement in fracking and in the military industrial complex.  However, recently they have been making it even more interesting.

Just last week in Texas, Halliburton was finally able to recover radioactive waste which had gone missing while under their care.

The search began in early September, and ended nearly a month later in the beginning of October.

During the course of the search the National Guard was even called in to help and the company also deployed vehicles fitted with radiation detection equipment, neither of which helped in finding the lost radioactive material.

Eventually the lost rod of americium-241/beryllium was randomly found on the side of a highway near Pecos, Texas.  The rod was spotted by a worker for the United Arab Emirates-based oil services company, who had seen a flyer of what the missing material looked like.

Just days later, also in Texas, the senior vice president of Halliburton’s tax department, 59-year-old Joseph Francis Andolino was arrested with 6 other men in an online prostitution sting.

The sting was conducted by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office was set up to bust people who arranged meetings with undercover cops posing as prostitutes online.
Deputies said that when the men arrived and agreed on a price for sex with undercover agents they were immediately arrested.

My Fox Houston reports the company issued the following release, “We confirm Joseph Andolino is a Halliburton executive. We expect our officers and employees to maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct, but we do not comment on personal matters.”

However, they did not say if Andolino’s position with the company is in jeopardy.
Andolino and the six other men face one count each of prostitution, a Class B misdemeanor. If convicted they face up to six months in jail, but something tells me if any of them walk, its going to be him.

J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.

He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .