Indictments in the UN’s Oil for Food Scandal
Just saw this on the web at Fox News and on Newsday’s site (from google news–both appear to be based on AP reporting).
Fox lede:
A Texas businessman is one of three people who were being indicted Thursday as part of the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food (search) program, FOX News has confirmed.
David Chalmers, head of Texas-based Bayoil, which participated in oil deals through the program, is the American who will be indicted. A Bulgarian and a British citizen also will be slapped with charges involving an alleged scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq as part of Oil-for-Food program, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
U.S. Attorney David N. Kelley scheduled a 10:30 a.m. EDT news conference Thursday with an FBI official to announce the unsealing of the indictment, which his office said also named two companies operated by the formally unidentified Texan.
Sorry, I know zip about “Bay Oil.” Will this indictment affect John Bolton’s UN ambassador nomination hearings? It should generate some interesting questions. The American judicial process is attempting to hold at least some of the corrupt actors in this scandal accountable.
