Posted on 01/07/2006 6:57:59 PM PST by blam
Until Kofi and Kojo are lead away in chains, this ain't nothin' but another dog-and-pony show.
Wasn't he involved in some Congressional scandals in the Seventies?
I really hope this guy drops the dime. Sadly, even if he does, the crooks will probably retire to their home countries with full UN pay and benefits.
"with full UN pay and benefits"
Your tax dollars hard at work.
Be interesting to see who he gives up to get out of this one.
Is the last name of almost every Korean "Park?"
I do not trust Volcker at all. His report will not end this.
The USA and our FBI will probably be the only ones to ever arrest anyone in the Oil For Food scandal. If we wait for the UN to make arrests hell will freeze over.
What did Kofi know and when did he know it.
He knew it the day it started and got his share.
Bump To The Top!!!
FR Keyword= OILFORFOOD
Good news. Thanks for posting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a9e4cf7770.htm
Winning Washington's Ear, With a Checkbook and a Tale
News/Current Events Breaking News News
Source: New York Times
Published: 8/28/00 Author: TIM GOLDEN and DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Posted on 08/27/2000 21:04:31 PDT by kattracks
At his small suite of offices in Fort Lee, N.J., David Chang was a tycoon without much to do.
Mr. Chang, 56, often rode to work in a Rolls-Royce and strode through the door in a long mink coat, a cigarette dangling from his lips. But although his holding company boasted of big, global deals in everything from oil exploration to telecommunications, almost none of those ventures ever got off the ground.
"I never really saw anybody there do anything," said Clark R. Wilcox, a former banking executive who was hired to help run the firm in 1997, only to quit soon after and successfully sue his former employer for breach of contract.
In Washington, however, Mr. Chang cut a very different figure. There, he attended state dinners at the White House and visited informally with the president. He hired Mr. Clinton's chief fund-raiser as a consultant and cultivated senators and congressmen from both parties. The chairman of his company, a retired Navy admiral, had been chief of staff to George Bush when he was vice president.
The secret of Mr. Chang's popularity among American politicians was of course no secret: he and his employees gave generously to favored candidates and their parties -- more than 100 contributions that totaled $325,000. Mr. Chang also pledged at least $1 million toward the presidential library that Mr. Clinton hopes to build in Little Rock, Ark.
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Now, Mr. Chang is at the center of a widening federal inquiry into the possibility that Mr. Torricelli's 1996 campaign staff may have been complicit in Mr. Chang's illegal donations -- something the senator strongly denies. Lawyers familiar with the case say Mr. Chang has given prosecutors information suggesting that Mr. Torricelli's aides accounted improperly for some of his contributions, and at least two dozen Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been added to the inquiry in recent weeks.
Mr. Torricelli and other politicians now cast him as an unscrupulous con man, and themselves as his unwitting victims. Through his Washington lawyer, Mr. Chang declined to comment at all. But Mr. Chang's credibility is likely to be a central issue in any new case that is brought.
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Among the first and most important of Mr. Chang's Washington contacts was Daniel J. Murphy, a high-profile lobbyist with a gleaming government résumé. A retired four-star admiral, Mr. Murphy had commanded the Navy's Sixth Fleet, had served as chief of staff to George Bush when he was vice president, and had been a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and a deputy undersecretary of defense.
After resigning from Vice President Bush's staff in 1985, Mr. Murphy went to work as a lobbyist, first for Gray & Company, a firm closely tied to the Reagan administration, and then on his own. He quickly built a reputation for putting business ahead of politics, representing the Marxist government of Angola, trying to drum up business in Gen. Manuel Noriega's Panama, and maintaining a friendship with Tongsun Park, the former South Korean lobbyist and intelligence agent, long after Mr. Park's ties to American congressmen touched off a political scandal involving United States officials in the late 1970's.
Mr. Murphy, who declined to say anything about his relationsip with Mr. Chang, began working for him as a consultant and lobbyist by at least 1990, according to Mr. Schertler, Mr. Chang's lawyer. Mr. Murphy soon became a business partner as well, helping Mr. Chang open some of the more important doors in Washington.
"He was at the White House once a month, when I was there," said one former assistant who worked for Mr. Chang during the latter half of the Bush administration. Mr. Bush's spokesman said the former president did not recall ever meeting Mr. Chang, and there are no records that he ever made a private visit to the White House.
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Much more at link.
ReBumping!!!!@!
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228 views....I wonder how many of them have donated to the Freepathon to keep the lights on?
Here!
"Wasn't he involved in some Congressional scandals in the Seventies?"
He sure was. I posted some information about him just a few weeks ago.
:)
YOU are not who I meant, but THANK you!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543191/posts
More about this subject and Tongsun Park.
I thought you were taking roll call :)
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