Posted on 04/16/2005 11:03:41 PM PDT by kingattax
What the latest Oil for Food indictments say about the U.N.
U.N. officials and their allies have been telling the world that the investigation into the Oil for Food scandal is all over, now that Paul Volcker has filed his second interim report. Well, on Thursday a pair of new indictments revealed that we're only getting started.
The indictments announced by U.S. Attorney David Kelley support what the critics have long been saying: Oil for Food was designed from the beginning, and virtually in plain sight, in a way that allowed skimming and kickback operations to help Saddam Hussein circumvent U.N. sanctions.
One indictment named Texas oil trader David Chalmers, the second American indicted so far, along with Bulgarian and British business associates. The three are alleged to have paid millions of dollars in kickbacks on deliberately underpriced oil, giving Saddam access to unmonitored revenues and thereby depriving Oil for Food of humanitarian funds. (Mr. Chalmers says he's innocent.)
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I say, fung 'em.
LOL>...i meant to type "fund"....but "fung" works
Yup.
The US did, up through the beginning of the Iraq invasion. Now, the wheels of justice are going to start grinding slowly.
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