Posted on 06/14/2005 9:26:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are "urgently reviewing" new information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son.
The December 1998 memo from Michael Wilson, then a vice president of Cotecna Inspections S.A., mentions brief discussions with Annan "and his entourage" during a summit in Paris in 1998. "We could count on their support," the memo said.
If accurate, the memo could contradict a major finding of the Independent Inquiry Committee - that there wasn't enough evidence to show that Annan knew about efforts by Cotecna, which employed his son, Kojo, to win a contract under oil-for-food. Cotecna learned it won the contract on Dec. 11, 1998.
The statement from the Independent Inquiry Committee, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, said it would "conduct additional investigation regarding this new information."
In a statement released earlier Tuesday, Cotecna again denied that it committed any wrongdoing in obtaining the $10 million a year contract.
That sound you heard was the other shoe dropping.
Guess the old shredder missed one .... LOL!
Not surprising. Kofi's son has been linked. Just a matter of time for hard evidence to surface linking Kofi to his graft and corruption.
French President Jacques Chirac, right, listens to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during a conference devoted to the so-called Global Compact, a voluntary charter of rules of ethics for businesses, Tuesday June 14, 2005 in Paris. (AP/Michel Euler)
BWAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Far more certain than Michael Jackson, and to a lesser degree OJ Simpson.
Neither Nor.
All three are guilty.
But, I guess It's The president's fault.
Kofi Annan and "The Corrupt" might intimidate the intimidated.
They don't intimidate me.
I'm sure Paul Volcker will "take the ball and run with it".
I hope you're right. He's like a dimocrap, dishonor and scandal are not enough to make him resign. He will weather this storm as well. We'll never be rid of that Bastard. If we have one hope...it's Bolton.
Just go ask any DUer
Well, I would not say that, but there are a lot of Bush defenders who say "Its just a memo, no big deal" about the Downing St. memo. Will those same people say that this is "just a memo, no big deal"?
FRom BBC
Timeline: Oil-for-food scandal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4445609.stm
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Court delays UN oil-for-food case for 4th time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422613/posts
I hope every time Kofi mentions Gitmo being closed, the investigative committee drops another document to show that Kofi was well aware of the UN Oil for Food scandal -- and a major part in it.
I wonder why this story didn't mention that two senior investigators quit in protest that kofi was getting a free pass. I think that is very relevent.
> I wonder why this story didn't mention that two senior investigators quit in protest that [K]ofi was getting a free pass[?]
Sin.
The deviance of multiple voluteer collaborators actively engaged in the perpetuation of manifest vice and corruption.
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