Bye bye Bevon!
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. So Benon Sevan, the former Iraq "oil for food" chief has quit -- one step ahead of the Paul Volcker investigation.
Surely his departure had nothing to do with all the evidence that he received bribes and kickbacks from Saddam, or the pending release of reports on the same topic. He's innocent, after all -- just like all the guys in jail.
Sevan says his management of the oil for food program was "transparent." Yeah, that's the ticket!
Good riddance.
Surely his departure had nothing to do with all the evidence that he received bribes and kickbacks from Saddam, or the pending release of reports on the same topic. He's innocent, after all -- just like all the guys in jail.
Sevan says his management of the oil for food program was "transparent." Yeah, that's the ticket!
Good riddance.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:16 PM
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Carol - now if we could GET RID OF, instead of rewarding, those in this administration who looted the taxpayer funded financial cookie jar over in Iraq. $9 BILLION dollars...poof...just disappeared. That's our money. Missing. No accountability.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=259
President Bush stated that we would treat Iraqi oil money as a solemn trust to be disbursed solely for the benefit of the Iraqi people. Now nine billion dollars of Iraqi funds are missing. Over forty cents ($.40) of every Iraqi dollar supervised by the United States is unaccounted for.
Every large organization maintains "petty cash" accounts. Occasionally a "bookkeeper? will embezzle funds, from a bank. MCI officials are on trial in New York for inflating their financial records by more than $10 billion. But $9 billion missing? This has to be the greatest robbery in history. And it took place under Bremer's nose.
In a little-noticed lawsuit pending in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia a bogus operation calling itself "Custer Battles LLC" and managed by a former Republican candidate for congress was paid millions of dollars in cash. Again Bremer claims to be ignorant of this defalcation as well. (**also note that Custer Battles was banned from doing business with the Government and yet they are back working the Government...where is the OVERSIGHT?**)
The fact that the United States has lost forty cents of every Iraqi dollar Bremer administered is a disgrace. Why did President Bush award Bremer a "Medal of Freedom" for this mass incompetence and corruption? Where is the missing money? The magnitude of the defalcated funds staggers. Nine billion dollars? Millions of dollars paid out in cash to suspect characters?
and more at CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/
Bremer says his management of Iraqi funds were "transparent"...Yeah...that's the ticket!
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