If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Posted on 10/21/2005 8:04:14 PM PDT by kcvl
Which individuals were named in the report as voucher recipients?
Among them:
* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader, and companies associated with his party were allocated 53 million barrels.
* Alexander Voloshin, chief of staff under former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, was allocated 3.9 million barrels of oil from May to December 2002.
* Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., a prominent Texas energy investor with a long history of dealings in Iraq , received vouchers for 29.7 million barrels, according to press reports.
* Benon Sevan, the U.N. chief of the Oil-for-Food Program, received an allocation of 13 million barrels.
* Charles Pasqua, a businessman and former French interior minister, received an allocation of 11 million barrels.
* Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former Indonesian president, was allocated 6 million barrels.
All of this is VERY damning and I hope that it's makes national news.
Quite an understatement, does Lynn still hog the society spotlight?
Clinton dipping into deep Texas pockets
State is No. 2 in donations for N.Y. senator's re-election
07:36 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Here are the top sources for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising in the first quarter of this year:
Oscar Wyatt Jr. Houston $900
Some prominent Texas contributors to Hillary Rodham Clinton this year:
Name Hometown Amount
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Waco $8,000
Ben and Melanie Barnes Austin $7,700
James Street Austin $2,100
John O'Quinn Houston $2,100
Fred Baron and Lisa Blue Dallas $2,000
William Cunningham Dripping Springs $2,000
Luci Baines Johnson Austin $1,000
Ann Richards Austin $1,000
Paul Coggins Dallas $1,000
Ron Kirk Dallas $1,000
Robert Utley III Dallas $1,000
Steve Wolens Dallas $1,000
Oscar Wyatt Jr. Houston $900
SOURCES: Federal Election Commission; Dallas Morning News research.
Note: Federal law limits individual contributions to $2,100 per contributor in a primary race, then an additional $2,100 in a general election.
Her name is Bonny Swearingen and after some casual conversation about Texas, and a friend we had in common there, she curtailed the genealogical discussions so common to Texans, (Well now, his momma was a Bass...) and informed me that she was really from a "little old nowhere town in Alabama." Without a hitch she offered that she is currently marrried to John E. Swearingen, CEO, or President or Poobah of Standard Oil. "I used to be married to Oscar Wyatt," she tells me, assuming I know who that is. (I learn later that he is one of the richest, independent oilmen in the country whose son was caught naked with Fergie).
"They used to say it was impossible to go from the minors to the majors, but I did it", she says, with equal parts smugness and pride. "I married the richest independent oil man [Oscar, I presumed] and then went on to the head of Standard Oil. Now," she offers conspiratorially, "I'm looking around for number three."
YIKES!
The Second Installment of an ongoing NYSD Personages List. There are several thousand names which have appeared over the past five years on the New York Social Diary.
Lynn Wyatt – Texas princess, wife of oil and natural gas tycoon Oscar Wyatt, sister of famed Texas high fashion retailer Robert Sakowitz, Mrs. Wyatt is a charter member of the international jet set. Her birthday celebration in summertime on the Cote d’Azur is attended by society, royalty and show biz (Elton John is always in attendance unless he has a previous booking commitment). Famous for her fashion and her jewels (get a load of those emeralds!), she’s a major force in Houston cultural and philanthropic circles, and there’s not a major event in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London or Paris that she’s liable to miss.
Mr. Annan would be on stronger ground pointing out that Saddam was seeking agents of influence within the U.S. as well. The very first oil voucher recipient under Oil for Food appears to have been Texas tycoon Oscar Wyatt, who had tried to save Saddam from U.S. force before the first Gulf War. The records allege that Mr. Wyatt and his company took 71.8 million barrels of oil under Oil for Food for a profit of $22.8 million. According to a weekend story in the Los Angeles Times, since 1991 he and his wife have given more than $700,000 to federal candidates and PACs (about 75% to Democrats) and Saddam may have regarded him as a way to get to the Clinton Administration.
Washington, D.C., lobbyist Nancy P. Dorn
he worked as a lobbyist for Coastal Corporation, the Houston oil firm owned by the flamboyant and often controversial Oscar Wyatt.
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Speaker appoints top China lobbyist
Hastert's national security adviser 'Li Ka-shing's person in Washington'
By Kenneth R. Timmerman and Charles Smith
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
House Speaker Dennis Hastert has named a lobbyist for Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing as his top national security and foreign policy adviser, a move that has made some top House Republicans angry and left others bewildered.
A low-key lawmaker known for avoiding controversy, Hastert's appointment of Washington, D.C., lobbyist Nancy P. Dorn seemed out of character.
"I can't believe he knew of this person's background," Maryland Republican Roscoe Bartlett told WorldNetDaily.com. Bartlett is a leading member of the House National Security Committee.
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Dorn, 41, briefly served in the Reagan administration, and won a Schedule C. political appointment under President George Bush as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), a position she held from 1991-1993. After leaving the administration, she worked as a lobbyist for Coastal Corporation, the Houston oil firm owned by the flamboyant and often controversial Oscar Wyatt.
In 1995, when Dorn was working for Coastal, Wyatt reportedly wrote to President Clinton threatening to move Coastal Corp. headquarters offshore if the United States enacted a trade embargo against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Coastal had become a major purchaser of Iranian crude until the White House imposed the embargo in April 1995.
"Nancy came to us highly recommended," Hastert spokesman John Feehery told WND. "We have nothing but the highest regard for her professional abilities. She is highly qualified for the job." In particular, he said, she "helped get funding for the contras in Nicaragua" during the Reagan administration, "so she is a firm anti-Communist."
Feehery added that Speaker Hastert "knew she was a lobbyist," but said that Hastert "had no specific knowledge" of her ties to Hutchison Port Holdings or to Li Ka-shing. Feehery's explanation didn't hold water with some fellow Republicans.
"Here is a person who will be the Speaker's representative to the Intelligence Committee," one irate Republican staffer told WND. "She will have access to operational matters, and can in effect task the intelligence community to do anything. And until yesterday, she has been Li Ka-shing's person in Washington."
Hastert announced Dorn's appointment on July 13. She replaces Bill Inglee as the speaker's senior advisor for foreign policy and defense matters, a key position within the Republican leadership. Dorn will be leaving a lucrative Washington practice with the law firm of Hooper, Owen & Winfield, for a lesser-paid job in Congress, where she can be fired at will. Accepting a dramatic pay cut of this size typically suggests a political motivation, of else an ulterior financial interest in traveling the wrong way through Washington's revolving door.
The Washington Representatives 2000 yearbook lists Dorn as servicing a long list of lucrative accounts, including the AFL-CIO, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, ANR Pipeline Co., the Construction management Association of America, Gary-Williams Energy Corp., the National Cable Television Association, PanAmSat Corp., Waste Management and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America.
"That's a powerful client list," said fellow Washington lobbyist Bonny Stilwell. Dorn also represented the governments of oil-rich Kazakhstan, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, lucrative and often difficult accounts.
And Saddam was most probably correct in that assumption!
What the hey.................??????????
Excellent job of research. Now how about forwarding this info to fox news and/or other media so more people than just freepers know about this ?
March 13, 2005, 7:57PM
A birthday surprise
By SHELBY HODGE
Add one unexpected star to the stage at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts Saturday night. In a surprise appearance, Liza Minnelli joined Michael Feinstein (Yes, that Feinstein!) at the piano for the closing of his cabaret-style performance that highlighted the center's benefit dinner, "A Night at the Regency."
Toward the end of his program, Feinstein invited Minnelli onstage from the wings, where she had been watching the show with Lynn Wyatt (socialite wife of Oscar).
It was the songbird's birthday and, after the audience joined Feinstein in singing "Happy Birthday," the two pros entertained with several duets.
Minnelli, Feinstein and his partner, Terence Flannery, arrived in Houston Friday afternoon just in time to change and make a dinner party at the River Oaks home of Lynn and Oscar Wyatt, where Minnelli bunked during her stay.
It was birthday cake for dessert. But the real treat for the 20 dinner guests? Minnelli and Feinstein's impromptu concert in the Wyatt drawing room.
Saturday, Lynn Wyatt entertained the three New Yorkers over lunch at bistro moderne, where chef Philippe Schmit delivered several birthday desserts to the table. The birthday piece de resistance — the ice cream bombe loaded with sparklers.
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Under Bernard's leadership Sakowitz became a significant Houston institution, with stores at one time downtown, in Gulfgate, at the Shamrock Hotel,qv and in the Galleria-Westheimer area. He and his father built the first Sakowitz suburban store in 1959 on the corner of Westheimer and Post Oak. This was the bellwether that led to development of Westheimer Road into a major Houston street that soon included Neiman-Marcusqv and later the Galleria, built by Houston's Gerald Hines. The area became known as Uptown Houston. Later Sakowitz expanded to other cities, including Dallas, Phoenix, and Midland. Sakowitz never went public and was the last of the major family-owned chains of specialty stores in America.
Bernard Sakowitz married Ann Baum on July 20, 1933. They had two children, Lynn and Robert. Lynn, who married Oscar Wyatt, Jr., became an international socialite, a friend of such luminaries as Princess Grace of Monaco, and was often voted one of the best-dressed women in the world. Robert Sakowitz graduated from Harvard cum laude and entered the family business in 1963, becoming president in 1975. Bernard Sakowitz served on the board of directors of the Texas Medical Center,qv St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and Congregation Beth Israel.qv He led many fund-raising drives for cancer research. He served on the Houston Crime Commission and was director of the Kiwanis Club, the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and the Better Business Bureau. In addition, he was a member of the National Retail Merchants Association, the Houston Angus Club, and the Houston Farm and Ranch Club and was vice president of the Contemporary Music Society of Houston. In 1972 he was named Retailer of the Year by Esquire Magazine. Following a heart attack, he died on April 24, 1981.
Three U.S. citizens, all of whom campaigned against Iraq sanctions, were among those who received special grants from a scandal-ridden oil program overseen by Saddam Hussein, according to congressional officials and a CIA report released this week.
From the Oct. 18 follow:
At least one of the men attempted to broker a peace deal between the U.S. and Iraq in a last-ditch effort to avoid war. Others waged campaigns to put an end to United Nations (news - web sites) sanctions against Iraq, portraying their efforts as humanitarian gestures to help the Iraqi people.
At the same time, all were donating to U.S. political campaigns. Since 1991, Wyatt and his wife, Lynn, for instance, have given more than $700,000 to federal campaign and political organizations, most to Democrats and most after Wyatt and his firm began to buy oil from Iraq in 1997, according to records maintained by the Campaign Finance Analysis Project.
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The Justice Department's report on the scandal, released in January 1995, largely exonerated U.S. agencies from illegal actions in support of Iraq, but suggested that much information on the CIA's role was inaccessible to investigators: "CIA's ability to retrieve information is limited. In the course of our work, we learned of 'sensitive compartments' of information not normally retrievable and of specialized offices that previously were unknown to the CIA personnel who were assisting us."
Timmerman suggests the Clinton administration may have another motive for downplaying Iraqgate. Timmerman quotes Marianne Gasior, a lawyer for Kennametal Inc., one of the companies linked to the covert supply pipeline, who charges that Iraqgate "wasn't just a Republican scandal." According to Gasior, the Lafarge Corporation (a company who in 1990 added one Hillary Rodham Clinton to their board) had a hand in CIA shipments to Iraq. Gasior alleges that the Clinton administration wants to minimize inquiries into Iraqgate for fear of implicating the First Lady in the scandal.
Whatever Clinton's reason for putting Iraqgate on the back burner, by neglecting the issue the White House has abandoned what was once a partisan rallying cry for the Democrats. During the 1992 campaign the Clinton/Gore ticket railed against Bush's pre-Gulf War policy toward Iraq -- Gore called Iraqgate "a bigger cover-up than Watergate ever was." Gore's charge was certainly accurate, and the Clinton administration's lack of zeal to uncover the facts about U.S. support for Saddam further confirms the allegation.
Each October, the winners are recognized at the annual Princess Grace Awards Gala at New York’s landmark Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The Gala brings together trustees, advisory board members, and benefactors to celebrate and honor the year’s award winners. In 2003, the festivities began with an elegant Perrier Jouët Champagne reception. In the hotel’s decorated Grand Ballroom, some 500 guests looked on as Prince Albert and John Lehman presented awards and honors to this year’s class of 31 emerging artists. Famed dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking helped open the festivities, and actor Michael C. Hall was on hand to present a Princess Grace Statue Award to Kate Robin, a writer and producer of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”
Attendees dined on lobster mango salad and filet mignon, participated in a silent auction, enjoyed a performance by two of the evening’s honored dancers, and later, took to the dance floor to the big band jazz rhythms of the Count Basie Orchestra. The Gala also brought to New York Lynn Wyatt, a close friend of Princess Grace and longtime Foundation trustee. Mrs. Wyatt, who hails from Houston, Texas, has hosted presidents, prime ministers, premiers, and plenipotentiaries from around the world. Prince Albert calls Wyatt, “an enchanting lady,” and praises her commitment to the Foundation. “Lynn was a true and loyal friend to my mother. She very kindly extends that loyalty and devotion to the Foundation.”
Wasn't it Lynn and Oscar's son, who was caught sucking the toes of a topless Fergie, on the French Riviera, or some such place, whilst she was still married to Randy Andy and their daughters were with her, on vacation?
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Royal mess
October, 2003
In a recent article about royal wrecks ("The Wild Bunch," August), you reported that Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, had had her toes sucked by Steve Wyatt, Lynn Wyatt's son. I have read elsewhere that the toe-sucker was her financial adviser, John Bryan. It was Wyatt, however, who introduced Bryan to Fergie.
Fergie became involved with an American businessman, Steve Wyatt, and their relationship was trumpeted in the press. Fergie implies in her autobiography that they were just friends, but her former psychic advisor, Madame Vasso, claims in her book Fergie: The Very Private Life of the Duchess of York that Fergie and Wyatt had an affair.
And she out and out lied about her relationship with Steve Wyatt. In this book she says that they were "just friends" which is simply not true. Madame Vasso, Lesley Player, Allan Starkie, John Bryan among other all verified independently that she had an intense sexual relationship with Steve Wyatt. She glosses over this fact in her book when she claims that "a friend" asked her to receive Dr. Salaman Rushdi for a brief drink at the palace. She neglects to say that this "friend" was her lover, Steve Wyatt. And if they were "just friends" as she claims, then why did she have to have his apartment (or "Flat") "searched from top to bottom" when he moved out? She said that it was the "danger of a frame up" and indeed there were more than 100 pictures taken of her and Steve Wyatt that proved to be her downfall found in the apartment. And if she was "just friends" with him, then there should have been absolutely NOTHING that would indict her in an extra marital affair.
A series of photos published in early 1992 left the British in no doubt that Sarah had been playing around -- from the pictures of her with Texan Steve Wyatt, to the famous "toe sucking" pictures that scandalised even a public used to naked women on Page 3 of their national papers.
Then there have been the men who rushed through Fergie's life, and thus those of her two daughters. First, there was oil heir Steve Wyatt. Then, Fergie took up with her toe-sucking financial adviser John Bryan, to whom Beatrice is said to have become close. After that there was Fergie's flirtation with Italian Count Gaddo della Gherardesca.
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there was David Ober, Annette and Oscar de la Renta, Joan Chorney (Marvin Davis’ sister); that Texas gal who hardly ever stays home, Joanie Schnitzer Levy and her husband Irv – who were about to held off to the Greek islands for a cruise on their yacht and then to the Hotel du Cap for Lynn Wyatt’s annual birthday party which takes place next Monday at her Villa Romana in Cap d’Antibes. The glitterati from all over the globe fall all over themselves in a rush to Madame Wyatt’s boitday.
Now, if that’s not enough, many of these intrepid travelers, quite a few who’d come from the American Friends of Versailles doings in Paris (and Versailles), were moving on down to the south to Antibes and Monte Carlo for Lynn Wyatt’s birthday, and also, for those special few, to the 18th birthday party that Princess Caroline of Monaco aka Princess Ernst of Hanover and her husband Prince Ernst are giving for her daughter, Charlotte Casiraghi in Monte Carlo. Charlotte is, as many know, the granddaughter of America’s adored, late great movie star, Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco.
Lynn Wyatt- Grande Patron of the Arts
André Leon Talley, Vogue’s regal, supersize editor-at-large, on the other hand, is more than happy to say more than is strictly necessary. “With total modesty, I’d say that this is the most important social and fashion party of the year,” he pronounces, and then goes on to elucidate the ways in which the Costume Institute Ball is superior. “The fashion is more confident,” he declares. “It’s not some haphazard stylist saying suddenly, ‘Oh, you should wear this.’ Women like Lynn Wyatt know who they are.”
Lynn Wyatt – the Texas beauty and international icon of style – was there, of course, talking about the Costume Institute Ball held the night before at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It previewed a Chanel exhibit, and was, she said, "fabulous!"
New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham chortled as he left the Carlyle cocktail party. "Lynn didn't see the rats," he said.
Black tie optional
A bewildering dress directive for many guests, this option is considered by many etiquette experts to be very confusing.
It's the worst phrase in the English language, says Baldrige.
Dallas socialite Lynn Wyatt looks in horror at an invitation that uses this phrase. When it does appear, she says she never dresses up. As do most people who take the word optional to mean they don't have to wear black tie. Those few who do dress up often feel out of place, making for a very mixed-up (and mixed-dress) crowd.
Oscar This-and-That
It wasn't until I re-read some of the Oscar coverage I missed last week that something clicked. It was mentioned in Liz Smith's syndicated column that Houston socialite Lynn Wyatt was very much on the scene all Oscar weekend, particularly at the side of none other than Elton John.
What a dynamic friendship they have. I guess Wyatt is very interested, as everyone should be, in Elton's AIDS Foundation. It's one of the few charities run in the name of a celebrity that actually donates money to needy causes.
the raucous Texas-sized cookout served by Lynn Wyatt
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On July 16, Oscar Wyatt flew in from Texas to give the annual birthday party for wife Lynn. Mr. Wyatt has been giving the birthday party for 30 years, which was just about an hour ago, and it remains one of the highlights of the season of the summer in the south of France. The party, called “La Vie Rose” was at their villa La Romana, overlooking all of St. Jean Cap Ferrat. Costume instructions called for the wearing of the pink. So everyone, every one, was pretty in pink. There was a fabulous buffet for all those appetites made heartier by the sun and the salt water, and the dancing lasted until the sun was coming up over the Alps.
The birthday girl was in an Oscar de la Renta pink beaded silk, passing on her famous Wyatt emeralds for something a little more summery – turquoise – to accessorize..
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The tables at Lynn Wyatt's party
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