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How Impartial is Baker???

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Seems like all these world leaders that want to fight wars in the oil countries have some type of connection to oil- or corporate gain- from those same involved countries.... :???: And as usual when caught/revealed say they won't take the profit from the deal they got caught on-- and that makes everything just hunky dorry :roll: :( .... Kind of leaves a smell....



FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Baker accused of skirting
U.S. sanctions on Saddam

Businessman charges ex-secretary of state
used middleman to 'sell out' Israel for profit

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Posted: December 18, 2006
5:00 p.m. Eastern


By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com



James Baker
RAMAT HASHARON, Israel – The law firm at which former Secretary of State James Baker is a senior partner used an Israeli middleman to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iraq and push through a multimillion-dollar collection effort involving the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to a businessman here who said he mediated the deal.
Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel, told WND that Baker's firm, Houston-based Baker Botts, made about $30 million collecting funds owed to a South Korean company by the Iraqi government at the peak of American sanctions imposed against Baghdad.

He claimed Baker was directly involved in the deal.

Baker has publicly brushed aside the criticism, saying he has agreed to forego earnings from clients with obvious connections to the Iraqi debt.



http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53421
 
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Am I the only person that didn't make money off Saddams sanctions and the Oil for Food Scam? Where the Hell is my cut? :???: So much for sanctions :( :mad:

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Dana Johnson (202) 720-6829
Keith Williams (202) 720-4623

USDA PROPOSES INDEFINITE DEBARMENT OF AWB LIMITED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2006 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced the immediate suspension and proposed debarment of AWB Limited, formerly the Australian Wheat Board, and its affiliates from participating in U.S. government programs and contracting with the U.S. government.

USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is taking action against AWB Limited, 11 individuals, and a Minnesota-based company because sufficient evidence exists to suspect that they engaged in bribery, kickbacks and similar behavior resulting in payments to the Saddam Hussein regime.

"We have a duty to protect the public interest by ensuring the firms and individuals with whom we do business abide by the law," said Johanns. "We have taken this immediate step based on evidence of illicit activities and, in some cases, evidence of attempts to conceal those activities."

FAS has sent suspension and proposed debarment notifications to AWB Limited, Paul Ingleby, Jim Cooper, Mark Emons, Peter Geary, Michael Long, Dominic Hogan, Nigel Officer, Charles Stott, Murray Rogers, Michael Watson, Trevor Flügge, and the Commodity Specialists Company (CSC) of Minneapolis, Minn.

Effective immediately, these companies and individuals are barred from participating in any U.S. government procurements as well as many other U.S. government programs such as loan guarantees. During the suspension, FAS will conduct proceedings that may result in debarment of AWB Limited and its former employees indefinitely, and CSC for five years. AWB Limited and the 11 individuals face indefinite debarment because there is evidence to suspect that their direct involvement in the bribes and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime were made more egregious by attempts to cover-up their actions.

Today's action follows the November 27, 2006, release of the Cole Commission Report. The Cole Commission was established by the Australian government to investigate wrongdoing by AWB Ltd. in the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme (OFFP). The potential wrongdoing by AWB Ltd. originally came to light in the United Nations' Volcker Commission's Report, which found that $1.8 billion of the OFFP's proceeds had been illegally diverted to members of the Iraqi government in violation of UN rules. AWB Limited was found to be responsible for diverting $220 million of that total.

On November 10, 2005, FAS suspended AWB (USA) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of its Australian parent company. FAS did not take further action against the company at that time because the Australian Government acted swiftly in appointing the Cole Commission to investigate allegations against AWB Limited, and because AWB (USA) Limited agreed to recuse itself from participation in USDA programs during the course of the investigation. The Cole Commission Report implicated AWB Limited, individuals associated with AWB Limited, and the CSC.
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