James Riady paid a record $8.6 million in criminal fines in 2001 and also pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud the U.S. by unlawfully reimbursing campaign donors with foreign corporate funds in violation of federal election law.
Chump change. It's a fee for the "protection" of the Grand Staircase Escalante.
12 posted on 03/23/2008 10:02:31 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)