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Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered
Yahoo/AP ^
| Mar 18, 2010
| JOHN HEILPRIN
Posted on 03/18/2010 2:49:55 PM PDT by rdl6989
UNITED NATIONS – The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister's salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard.
But the salesmen were actually FBI agents. And the operation resulted in what U.S. authorities in January called their biggest foreign bribery sting to date, netting 16 indictments and 22 arrests of small arms and military equipment makers.
At the center of the U.S. case is Richard Bistrong, a former Florida executive who first surfaced in a series of cases of bribes and bid-rigging for multimillion-dollar U.N. peacekeeping contracts. The trail to Bistrong is laid out in U.N documents, e-mails and legal filings reviewed by The Associated Press.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 201001; africa; armsdealers; bistrong; bongo; bribery; florida; gabon; joewilson; omarbongo; peacekeeping; richardbistrong; un; unitednations
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posted on
03/18/2010 2:49:55 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
UN and Corruption
Like peas and carrots
ham and eggs
Obama and lying
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posted on
03/18/2010 2:52:13 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
To: Gabrial
Also like Democrats and corruption
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posted on
03/18/2010 2:54:09 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Al Gore - The Uniwarmer)
To: rdl6989
yawn.
Another day and another story about corruption in the UN.
Yawn, another day and another story about a corrupt Democratic President
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posted on
03/18/2010 3:04:52 PM PDT
by
South Dakota
(Drill baby, drill)
To: rdl6989
Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered Yawn
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posted on
03/18/2010 3:06:32 PM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(Liberal vs. Conservative = The vision of man versus the nature of man.)
To: rdl6989; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Wow, that must have taken years to find. ;’) To find more corruption of this kind, one need only look at anything the UN spends money on. Thanks rdl6989.
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posted on
03/18/2010 4:14:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: Gabrial
“UN, and corruption. UN, and corruption go together like Clinton, and a Bimbo eruption”...to the tune of “Love and Marriage”.
Sorta reaching hunh.
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posted on
03/18/2010 5:44:09 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
To: rdl6989
Just one more reason - as if we needed more - to kick the UN out of the U.S. entirely, and to, at the very least, free up that very valuable real estate on the East River for residential apartment development, Lord knows we need more apartments in NYC for real, honest people, and a lot less space devoted to grandstanding, corrupt politicians - we've got enough of our own in City Hall, why should we have to put up with twice as many more from foreign countries?
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posted on
03/18/2010 5:47:53 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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posted on
09/19/2015 10:48:31 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: rdl6989
Looks like this case fell through...
Maybe the investigators got too close to someone with connections
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posted on
09/19/2015 11:07:00 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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