FREEPER EXCLUSIVE: Oil for Food suspect's wife was a major Kerry donor

Opensecrets.org, various websites ^ | January 16, 2005 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Alice and Ben Pollner came to Missoula in October for the second Pollner Lecture, part of a fellowship they created in honor of their son, T. Anthony Pollner, a 1999 J-school graduate who died in 2001.

Alice Pollner, wife of New York oil trader Ben Pollner, who has been under scrutiny for his role in the oil for food scandal was a major donor to the John Kerry campaign as seen from the record below:

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Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
POLLNER, ALICE NEW YORK,NY 10128		5/20/2004	$2,000	Kerry, John

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Question for the media: Did the UN Oil-for-food money get laundered to John Kerry's campaign?

[FreeAtlanta]

Regardless, it goes without saying that if Kerry had won, the Oil for Blood program would have been swept under the rug.

[Bob J]

"Don't you see that the amount is not that important?"

The amount is important, it's the difference between a footnote and a scandal.

[gaspar]

The horrific fact is that the three Americans involved in the food for oil scandal -- Ben Pollner, Marc Rich and Oscar Wyatt -- are Jews who would help finance the destruction of Israel.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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[Calpernia]

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