确实，尼日利亚近期最大的一笔贿赂（外界普遍估计约1.8亿美元）是由美国哈利伯顿公司支付的，而该公司与美国政界则有着错综复杂的关系。
Indeed, one of the largest bribes (a reputed $180 million) paid in recent times in Nigeria was by Halliburton, a company tightly intertwined with US political power.