CNN Breaking: Former U.N. officer pleads guilty in "oil for food" scandal

[truthpusher]

http://www.cnn.com/

CNN Breaking: A former U.N. officer named in the oil-for-food scandal pleads guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges, federal prosecutors said.

[cornermouse]

1. Please note that the money laundering and conspiracy

in the U.N. is not and will not be compared to money laundering and conspiracy in Iraq by certain well known corporations on the so-called "good guys" side.

[GracieM]

2. U.N. who? Where's the blonde chick in Aruba?

Greta better figure it out quick...

[funnymanpants]

3. Not quite what it seems

"There was no apparent connection between those payments and the oil-for-food program, however."

So this doesn't prove the hype that the UN was bribed by Saddam

[funnymanpants]

4. woops!

I read the article too fast. Apparently, there is a connection.

[rman]

5. c o n s p i r a c y

plead guilty

[daleo]

6. After reading the article, this all seems pretty minor.

"Earlier, Paul Volcker, the head of the U.N.'s Independent Inquiry Committee, announced that the probe found that Yakovlev solicited a bribe from a French company that bid unsuccessfully on an oil-for-food contract.
The report found no evidence the company paid the desired bribe -- but it found that more than $1.3 million had been wired to a bank account Yakovlev controlled on the Caribbean island of Antigua since 2000.
...
Volcker's panel also said that the former head of the oil-for-food program allegedly received more than $147,000 in kickbacks from oil sold under the program"

Next to the $8 billion of U.S. money that has went missing in Iraq since the invasion, this is very small beer (I make it to be 1/4000 as much). Volcker should start investigating that.