Interested in Dick Cheney’s finances? The Washington Independent and I hope you are.
Cheney filed his final financial disclosure form as a public official, known as his termination filing, with the Office of Government Ethics on Feb. 18, 2009, covering assets the ex-vice president possessed from Jan. 1 2008 to Jan. 20, 2009. The filing indicates Cheney is worth between $11 million and $50 million, with stock options held in such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Lockheed-Martin and the oil-services company he ran during the 1990s, Halliburton. Determining Cheney’s precise net worth was not possible, due to the broad ranges in which filers can list the value of their assets.
TWI acquired the filing and is making it available here. “Here’s a guy who’s pretty well off,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, an open-government advocacy organization. “This is not someone who by any means is poor or likely to go on the dole any time soon.”
I know, I know. Breaking: Dick Cheney Is Rich isn’t much of a story. But there’s some good stuff in that filing.
The Lucchese Boot Company of Hendersonville, Tenn. and the Oak Ridge Boys, a country band, jointly provided the former vice president with $631 worth of black cherry goat leather boots and three CDs, appraised at $631. His senior staff purchased the “Vice President’s Cabinet Chair” as a gift for him, valued at $1,190. Gordon England, who served as deputy secretary of defense in the Bush administration, gave Cheney, an avid fisherman, a $2,075 handmade split cane fly rod and matching wading staff. Former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady gifted him a Remington 12-gauge automatic shotgun worth $999. Members of the Boston Red Sox signed a baseball for Cheney, estimated at $3,500, after winning the 2007 World Series.



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And I was almost ready to like the Oak Ridge Boys after listening to their cover of ‘Seven Nation Army’