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  • Four Charged in U.N. Oil-For-Food Scandal

    04/14/2005 6:18:32 PM PDT · by cyncooper · 8 replies · 627+ views
    AP via ABC News ^ | April 14, 2005 | LARRY NEUMEISTER
    NEW YORK Apr 14, 2005 — Four more people were charged Thursday in the scandal in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including a Texas oil executive and a South Korean businessman who was at the center of a 1970s corruption case involving Congress. ~snip~U.S. Attorney David Kelley called the new charges "two more pieces in the oil-for-food puzzle" and said the investigation is not over. ~snip~One of the indictments announced Thursday charges a Texas oil company owner and two oil traders with paying millions in secret kickbacks to Saddam's regime to secure oil deals, thus cheating the program out of money...