Posted on 08/08/2005 2:41:01 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
BREAKING NEWS A former U.N. officer named in the oil-for-food scandal pleads guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges, federal prosecutors said.
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Now we're gettin' somewhere.
Thank you Mr. Coleman and Mr. Bolton.
I'll be d*mned! Kofi must be sweating bullets. Thank you Mr Bolton.
Now we need to go after Kofi and his family - as guilty or more so than this fall guy.
Ted Kennedy is in some bar drowning away his sorrow.
Nah! Just means that they found a fall guy. He will take all of the blame and the others will all point to him as the only guilty party.
Apparent arrest in oil-for-food probe
Monday, August 8, 2005; Posted: 3:17 p.m. EDT (19:17 GMT)
-- A former U.N. procurement officer apparently has been arrested in connection with allegations he solicited bribes from companies seeking oil-for-food contracts, an aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
U.N. officials lifted Alexander Yakovlev's diplomatic immunity at the request of a U.S. prosecutor in New York, and "we believe Mr. Yakovlev is already in custody," Mark Malloch Brown, Annan's chief of staff, told reporters.
Apparent arrest in oil-for-food probe
Monday, August 8, 2005; Posted: 3:17 p.m. EDT (19:17 GMT)
-- A former U.N. procurement officer apparently has been arrested in connection with allegations he solicited bribes from companies seeking oil-for-food contracts, an aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
U.N. officials lifted Alexander Yakovlev's diplomatic immunity at the request of a U.S. prosecutor in New York, and "we believe Mr. Yakovlev is already in custody," Mark Malloch Brown, Annan's chief of staff, told reporters.
It'll be one of the small fry. I hope we're working our way up from the bottom.
Why? He's only been on the job for a week.
I hope there is more to come.
I think he's a sacrificial offering. I hope we don't settle for less.
And he's already getting results!
Wouldn't it be great if somehow we could show this WAS the result of the Bolton appointment!
.... and that tedious reporter from Fox News who has been dogging this case since the beginning.
Yes it would.
On the brighter side, it could mean it's part of a plea bargain and other higher ups have been implicated.
[[Wouldn't it be great if somehow we could show this WAS the result of the Bolton appointment!]]
Well it happened on Bolton's watch so I give him credit for it.
Does this mean that there IS corruption in the UN?
I’m shocked I tell ya – shocked!
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