Posted on 07/20/2006 3:56:26 AM PDT by libstripper
While the United Nations frames its next response to crisis in the Middle East, its last grand venture in that region--Oil for Food--has finally resulted in a guilty verdict in open court. Last Thursday, a high-rolling, globe-trotting South Korean businessman named Tongsun Park was convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiracy to launder money and act as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Mr. Park's case is much entwined with the executive floor of the U.N. For years, he enjoyed extraordinary access to its top officials, complete (at least at one stage) with a U.N. grounds pass.
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Claudia Rosett ping :)
If it is illegal to steal moneies, why is Kofi Anan(the head theif in the oil for food), not in jail? Much less all the other national and international politicians who took bribes and dirty monies from poor Iraq people and stuffed their bank accounts. How come so many liberals who make a claim of peace and love are thievies and liars?
Beacuse they're essentially anti-American Marxists.
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