U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Faces Fresh Charges (Sevan skimmed $1.2 million out of program)

New York Times ^ | February 15, 2005 | Judith Miller

[Howlin]

So, his "mother" gave him a lot more money than he first admited, huh?

[ChicagoRighty]

Hello NYT... this is news tomorrow? Seems like we all knew about this already. It was again reported in detail yesterday on FNC.

[ChicagoRighty]

It was supposedly his aunt... you know what happened to her, dontcha?

[Howlin]

Yep.

[perfect stranger]

"He told the UN that his aunt, who lived on a small government pension in Nicosia, regularly gave him sums of between $30,000 and $50,000 in the years 1999-2003, amounting to a total of $160,000."

[perfect stranger]

February 06, 2005

[ChicagoRighty]

and she died just after the investigation began... she fell down an elevator shaft.

[NormsRevenge]

add elderly abuse to the list. scumbags

[EagleUSA]

No, he met a rich girl, whose deceased husband ran a catsup factory....this was his weekly allowance....

[ChicagoRighty]

Amen.

Hey, great pic of Lynne Stewart on your profile page... what a miserable wretch. Hope she gets the maximum sentence.

[perfect stranger]

That is truly horrible, I did not know that.

I heard as much as she had recently died, but I had expected that it was just a happen-stance or coincidence that gave some shred of possibility or credence to his lie.

[ChicagoRighty]

FNC's Oil for Blood report last night made that claim. I have not seen it anywhere else, but so far those guys (and Claudia Rosette), have been leading the charge, digging out the facts, unraveling the sock.

Look for the elevator to come back into the story.

[1066AD]

Hmm, someone corrupt in that position settles for only a million or so ? Hard to believe. Dig deeper !

[perfect stranger]

Here it is.

[GeronL]

he couldn't find another Aunt to toss down an elevator shaft?

[ChicagoRighty]

U da man... It crossed my mind to google it, but doin' too many things at once here.

[perfect stranger]

It suprised me that I found as much on my first try. It doesn't usually happen that fast. ;o)

[Timeout]

evidence since then has shown that Mr. Hussein manipulated the program to divert about $1.7 billion.

Have you seen this number before? I thought the Duelfer report found that Saddam had diverted more like $20 billion .