[AGL] sour crude

[michele mason]

Hi Connie, I wish I could be surprised, shocked is too much to ask. As  
I often take notice—the great "civilizations" of the world have always  
cracked from within and fallen. How dare I be such a pessimist?  Scroll  
down.

Love ya'll while we're here, michele

On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Connie Clark wrote:


> Houston's own mega-oil-millionaire is on trial.

> 81-year-old Oscar Wyatt, (Coastal Corp, now El Paso

> Corp) could spend the rest of his life behind bars -

> and the local paper fawns over his perky socialite

> wife, and how much she has done blah-blah.

>

> Traitors... dealing with Saddam to make money.

>

> -accused of acceding to the Iraqi demands that buyers

> of its crude pay illegal charges 10-50 cents per

> barrel (violation of UN rules...and U.S. law)

>

> -accused of conspiring to persuade UN officials to set

> the official selling price for Iraqi oil at an

> artificially low level, allegedly so he could pay the

> surcharges and still make a porofit.

>

> -charged with supplying equipment (gps-type, and other

> high tech) to Saddam's government.

>

> full story today

> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5111406.html

>

> Trial gets underway this week selecting jurors.  It is

> a federal trial, in New York.

>

>

>

>

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