Video (2min 30sec): Dick Cheney Indicted for Organized Crime by Texas Grand Jury.
Cheney is accused of investing some $85 million in the Vanguard group that houses federal inmates.
In what may prove to be the first of many future indictments against these individuals, the grand jury accuses soon to be former Vice President Dick Cheney and former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of engaging in organized criminal activity.
The Brownsville Herald reported that the grand jury in Willacy County, hearing evidence presented by District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra, returned several counts against Cheney and Gonzales as well as Texas officials including a state senator and state district judges.
The indictment cites Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, a major brokerage and mutual fund firm with financial interests in private prison companies that run federal detention centers, the newspaper reported.
It charged that Cheney had a conflict of interest and was responsible for "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees.
Gonzales, who was US attorney general from 2005-07 under US President George W Bush, is charged with using his influence to halt an investigation into alleged abuses at the prisons, the Brownsville Herald reported.
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