[TheSpottedOwl]

Kroll investigators discovered that one of the middlemen helping Saddam was Marc Rich, the U.S. tax-evader pardoned by President Bill Clinton. Rich had been indicted by the United States in 1983 on charges he evaded more than $48 million in taxes and illegally bought oil from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis. He fled the United States and settled in Switzerland. Kroll said, "We came up with evidence that through Marc Rich's Spanish subsidiary, he was using some Iranian cutouts -- specifically Bakhtiar, Iranians, whose family was close to Saddam -- he was using them to negotiate arrangements as it related to oil."

She continued, "The work was all turned over to OFAC [the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control]." That means the Clinton administration knew about Rich's aid to Saddam.

Well lookie there. Very interesting article.

[RKV]

Knew how to shake down Rich, that is.

[kcvl]

I think you all will want to read this. Remember Marc Rich? Well guess what he has been doing?