Yep. Ritter received his funding through this guy, Shakir al Khafaji:
1993 : (SOUTH AFRICA :IRAQI-BORN SHAKIR AL-KHAFAJI FOUNDS FALCON TRADING GROUP IN JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA & DOES BUSINESS WITH IRAQ'S SADDAM HUSSEIN FOR YEARS) - "Saddam's Cash," The Weekly Standard
Shakir al Khafaji also funded some other familiar folks and their endeavors:
1996 : (IRAQ-BORN SHAKIR AL KHAFAJI DONATES TO THE CLINTON/GORE 1996 PRIMARY COMMITTEE)
MAY 2, 1998 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'KNOLLENBERG FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE')
MAY 2, 1998 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'BONIOR FOR CONGRESS')
NOVEMBER 12, 1999 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'BONIOR FOR CONGRESS')
NOVEMBER 16, 1999 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'FRIENDS OF JOHN CONYERS')
DECEMBER 16, 1999 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'ABRAHAM SENATE 2000')
SEPTEMBER 15, 2000 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO 'BONIOR FOR CONGRESS')
NOVEMBER 8, 2000 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO ARAB AMERICAN LEADERSHIP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE aka AAPAC)
SEPTEMBER 2002 : (SHAKIR AL KHAFAJI LEADS DELEGATION OF ANTIWAR CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS -INCLUDING CHUCK HAGEL -ON A LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT-FUNDED TRIP TO BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- see ALKHAFAJITIMELINE; DETROIT CELL, OIL FOR FOOD, SCOTT RITTER)
2002 fall " (AL KHAFAJI ACCOMPANIES CONGRESSMEN MCDERMOTT, THOMPSON AND BONIOR TO IRAQ)
2002 fall : (IRAQI -AMERICAN AL-KHAFAJI GIVES $5,000 TO THE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND OF DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN JIM MCDERMOTT, A FUND STARTED TO DEFEND MCDERMOTT FROM A LAWSUIT FILED BY REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN BOEHNER WHOSE PRIVATE PHONE CONVERSATION WITH NEWT GINGRICH HAD BEEN ILLEGALLY TAPED BY DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS)
OCTOBER 25, 2002 : (MCDERMOTT ACCEPTS CHECK FROM IRAQI-AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN AL-KHAFAJI; CHECK IS FOR HIS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, WHICH HAD BEEN SET UP TO COUNTER A LAWSUIT FILED BY OHIO REPUBLICAN BOEHNER AFTER MCDERMOTT ACCEPTED AN ILLEGAL RECORDING OF PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS DURING A CONFERENCE CALL BETWEEN BOEHNER, GINGRICH AND OTHER REPUBLICANS)
OCTOBER 25, 2002 : (MCDERMOTT RECEIVES CHECK FROM AL-KHAFAJI)
OCTOBER 25, 2002 : (SHAKIR ALKHAFAJI DONATION TO ARAB AMERICAN LEADERSHIP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE aka AAPAC)
JUNE 10, 2004 : (IRAQ : THE IRAQ HQ OF SOUTHFIELD MICHIGAN-BASED "LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT" [FORMERLY THE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION {IAP}] IS RAIDED-----IT HAS OFFICES IN BAGHDAD & FALLUJAH [AND IS PARTLY FUNDED BY SHAKIR AL KHAFAJI--- See GHANIM AL JUMAILY )
He also donated to Senator Carl Levin.
MARCH 4, 2003 : (ABC NEWS : FORMER AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON , SENATOR CARL LEVIN {See IRAQI-AMERICAN SHAKIR AL KHAFAJI [SADDAM HUSSEIN OIL VOUCHERS RECIPIENT]}, AND A FRENCH AMBASSADOR APPEAR ON NIGHTLINE SHORTLY AFTER SENATOR CARL LEVIN'S RETURN FROM NIGER-RELATED TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST--See ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MARK HALPERIN, SON OF RADICAL LEFTIST MORTON HALPERIN)
......With the exception of Ted Kennedy, Levin has been the most outspoken of the many Democrats who warned ominously about Iraq's WMD threat before the war and now accuse the Bush administration of making it all up....... - "The New Pentagon Papers and Carl Levin.; Karen Kwiatkowski is Ted Kennedy's new expert.," Masthead Editorial, The Weekly Standard, From the March 22, 2004 issue , 03/22/2004, Volume 009, Issue 27
Back to the moneybag al Khafaji:
In addition to UNSCOM inspector Scott Ritter and assorted Democrats, Khafaji also greased a RINO:
SEPTEMBER 2002 : (SENATOR HAGEL {see ABURDENE & NIGERFLAP'S ROCK CREEK CORP} GOES ON TRIP TO IRAQ SPONSORED BY OIL FOR FOOD BANDIT AL KHAFAGI)
And Khafaji received oil vouchers too:
JANUARY 2004 : (IRAQ : THE "AL MADA LIST" OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WHO BENEFITTED FROM IRAQ'S OIL ALLOCATIONS IS PUBLISHED - IT LISTS AMERICANS SHAKIR AL KAHFAJI [and SAMIR VINCENT] AS BENEFICIARIES; AL KHAFAJI RECEIVED 1 MILLION BARRELS)
As an interesting bit of trivia, al Khafaji's Falkan Land Development and Falcon Management Group company [of Michigan]and to a greater degree the company he founded in S Africa in 1993 called "The Falcon Trading Group," [see http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/605fgcob.asp] shares names with an unrelated company called Falcon Trading Group, a hedge fund trading business based in Boca Raton Florida [a city notorious for its connections to 9/11]. FTG shared locations and an owner with another company called Sovereign Equity Management Corporation. FTG and SEMC were linked to crime families the FBI went after some time ago.