Posted on 10/29/2005 7:32:13 AM PDT by AliVeritas
What, besides bravado and arrogance, do British MP George Galloway and Canadian privy councilor Maurice Strong share in common? Still at large and in denial, both thumb their noses at authorities and top the artful dodger’s list in the United Nations Oil-for-food scandal.
Galloway is kept untouchable by an anti-war reputation fawned over by a liberal media.
Strong is in the safety zone through his connections to the powerful Desmarais family of Montreal-based Power Corp. fame.
Yet, U.S. congregational investigators say they have evidence Galloway profited from the oil-for-food program and allege that he knowingly made false or misleading statements to Congress in May when he denied the charges.
"The report said evidence showed Galloway personally solicited and was granted oil allocations from the Iraqi government for 23 million barrels from 1999 to 2003. It said Galloway’s wife, from whom he is now estranged, received about $150,000 in connection with the allocations and that a fund he started, the Mariam Appeal, received at least $446,000. Galloway has said he launched the Mariam Appeal cancer charity to help a sick Iraqi girl and for medical aid to Iraqi children. The subcommittee has suggested he used the fund to conceal (launder) oil payments. The report also said Saddam Hussein’s government got $1.64 million in illegal "surcharge" payments or kickbacks in connection with allocations to Galloway and the Mariam Appeal." http://news.yahoo.com/nm/20051025/ts-nm/Iraq-galloway-dc-1
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
The nonsense Galloway spout is sick, but in wartime his idiocy is life-threatening.
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