Texas Oilman Sentenced to Year in Prison

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/nov/27/112708636.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months and one day in prison for conspiring to violate the rules of the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Wyatt, 83, pleaded guilty last month and agreed to be sentenced to 18 to 24 months in prison. He also agreed to forfeit $11 million, conceding that he approved a $200,000 illegal payment directly to an Iraqi bank account in December 2001.

Prosecutors said he 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.

The program permitted the Iraqi government to sell oil primarily to buy food and medicine for suffering Iraqis. It was meant to help Iraqis cope with U.N. sanctions, but authorities said the program was corrupted when Iraqi officials began demanding illegal surcharges in return for contracts to buy Iraqi oil.

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Nobody steals from the Bush Mob!

Leave it to Texas to coddle the criminal element. Fucking pantywaist douchebags.

Cheney's company was trading with Iran when that wasn't legal, either.

Why is he walking around free?

He's turned into a nice adult, too.

His daddy took Winner's Dog at the Golden National this year. :)

Again, thanks.

A lot of protection can be afforded when you both have sovereign immunity and ultra-high connections in government. Lord knows the Democrats haven't the discipline or fortitude to push through impeachment of Cheney or Bush.

:nuke:

and call for the US to withdraw from the UN over it? Time to return the favor.

He has a long-standing feud with the BFEE, they hate each other.

He gives small donations to individual members of both parties, nothing significant.

And dang if my perfectly good joke above about Texas coddling criminals wasn't done in by a couple of inconvenient facts.

TX has enough bad karma right now, so I thought I'd disavow that part.
After all, doncha know, we lead the nation in executions! We're # 1! We're #1!

:o

The BFEE would probably have had Wyatt strung up if at all possible.

Nah...they are best buds with the BFEE. You walk into their office in Dallas, and there are pictures of Ray Hunt and Cheney all over the place.

Laker helped develop the BAC 1-11 in the late 50s, and his British United airline was the launch customer for the twin-jet. Oscar Wyatt was using a BAC 1-11 as a corporate jet when I was flying for Ken Lay in Houston. I crossed paths with Oscar a few times in the late 70s and early 80s. That was in his Coastal Corporation days.




Corporate BAC 1-11 similar to Wyatt's

No such luck.............