[arasina]

Raise your hand if you seriously believe that Paul Volcker will get to the bottom of the oil for food scandal. ... There is way to much to cover up for way too many people...

True, but BCCI scandal was similar in that 'ghost' organizations were part of the scheme, and even though it took a long time, the scum at the bottom was eventually uncovered. In fact, one person involved in that scandal has been linked to the Oil for Food Dollars game. That'd be Marc Rich of Clinton pardon fame. I'd even speculate that a certain tea-sipping CIA husband has his greedy hand in both as well.

Read this; it's interesting: The BCCI Affair

1. BCCI CONSTITUTED INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRIME ON A MASSIVE AND GLOBAL SCALE.
2. BCCI SYSTEMATICALLY BRIBED WORLD LEADERS AND POLITICAL FIGURES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
...
4. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MISHANDLED ITS INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF BCCI, AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONCERNING BCCI.
...
7. THE CIA DEVELOPED IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BCCI, AND INADVERTENTLY FAILED TO PROVIDE IT TO THOSE WHO COULD USE IT.

THE CIA AND FORMER CIA OFFICIALS HAD A FAR WIDER RANGE OF CONTACTS AND LINKS TO BCCI AND BCCI SHAREHOLDERS, OFFICERS, AND CUSTOMERS, THAN HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE CIA.

[flitton]

Interesting because that may have something to do with this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304541/posts


which I couldn't quite work out at the time.

[mabelkitty]

4. Correction. They did not "mishandle" anything. They never do. It was a deliberate obstruction disguised as incompetence. This pattern of corruption is quite prevalent whenever the light of truth shines in the direction of the power elite.

[keysguy]

Very interesting stuff there, thanks.

The problem is, IMHO, Europe and much of the rest of the world commonly take and make payoffs that would land someone in jail over here. It's almost a way of life for them but not for us.

I will be surprised if Koffi, his kid or many higher ups ever get caught. If there are bigger trails to the US "maybe" something will happen but foreign corruption,is not really that big a news even though the scale of this is mind boggling. Over 20 billion.

Many of the higher ups, leaders of many countries of the world are basically corrupt, Mexico, Cuba, Russia, much of the mid-East on and on.