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| Texas oilman gets year in prison for role in oil-for-food program |
| 2007-11-28 |
| Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to violate the U.N. oil-for-food program. Wyatt, 83, pleaded guilty last month in federal court in Manhattan to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Under the terms of his plea deal, he could have been sentenced to up to a year behind bars. He also agreed to forfeit $11 million, admitting that he approved a $200,000 illegal payment made directly to an Iraqi bank account in December 2001. Prosecutors said Wyatt paid millions of dollars to Iraqi officials to get an unfair share of contracts connected to the oil-for-food program, which ran from 1996 to 2003. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Wyatt's interest in Iraq and Saddam Hussein preceed the Oil for Food Program. He really didn't receive the sentence he deserved. |
| Posted by: Balthazar 2007-11-28 11:55 |
| #4 As Frank notes, a dem contributor. Thus only a slap on the wrist. He has to hope swillary gets elected to get a chance at his pardon... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-28 09:03 |
| #3 not likely - 70% of his |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-11-28 08:14 |
| #2 Anybody else sent 'up the river', yet? Kofi? Kofi's Kid? And how long before the Dems say he got a big break for being Bush's Big Oil buddy? Now, if W pardons him next year ... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-11-28 06:29 |
| #1 Not nearly enough. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-11-28 01:07 |