[FairOpinion]

And don't forget Marc Rich:

Oil-Food Report: $1.8bn Diverted to Hussein Regime (Marc Rich implicated)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510653/posts


The report also said Marc Rich & Co. financed 4 million barrels of oil under a 9.5-million-barrel contract awarded to the European Oil and Trading Co. (EOTC), a French-based shell company.

AND flashback:

The news comes as a federal grand jury in New York continues to probe the Clinton pardon. Rich's ex-wife, Denise, also gave more than $400,000 to the Clinton presidential library and prosecutors have continued to investigate if that was a payoff; Clinton and Denise Rich (search) both deny those allegations."

March 03, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149345,00.html

[saganite]

I don't see Haliburton on this list. That must be a mistake.

[USNBandit]

Among the handful of Americans named by Mr. Volcker is Shakir Al-Khafaji (12 million barrels), a well-connected Detroit-area businessman who led a delegation of anti-war Congressional Democrats to Baghdad in September 2002 and who funded an anti-sanctions documentary produced by former weapons inspector Scott Ritter.

Sleeping with the enemy alert.

[RicocheT]

US law prohibits US companies from paying bribes or kickbacks when doing business abroad. That puts US companies at a disadvantage in winning foreign contracts as bribes and kickbacks are expected in many other countries.

If our companies have to follow our law, companies like Volvo, Siemens, Daewoo, etc. who are found to have made such bribes/kickbacks abroad should be placed on a sanction list and penalized before allowed to do business in the US.

[highlander_UW]

In addition to the paperwork trails that link all these companies to Saddam they all have one additional thing in common...they all deny the facts. Wouldn't it be refreshing for at least one individual or company to say "oops..ya caught me, so sorry".

[Valin]

Shameless Plug
U.N. oil-for-food probe accuses 2,200 companies of making illicit payments to Iraq
Asharq Al-Awsat / AP ^ | 10/28/05
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510907/posts
/Shameless Plug

[tubebender]

Among the handful of Americans named by Mr. Volcker is Shakir Al-Khafaji (12 million barrels), a well-connected Detroit-area businessman who led a delegation of anti-war Congressional Democrats to Baghdad in September 2002 and who funded an anti-sanctions documentary produced by former weapons inspector Scott Ritter.

It looks like 99% of us FReepers will be vindicated when we said Ratter was on the take of Saddam...