Monday, August 08, 2005

The U.N. Unethics Icebreaker


Your gonna wanna read this one boys and girls...


"NEW YORK — One of the targets of the Oil-for-Food investigation, Alexander Yakovlev( pictured left), on Monday pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges for taking bribes during his work at the United Nations.

Yakovlev also admitted to soliciting a bribe under the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, making him the first U.N. official to face criminal charges in connection with the scandal-tainted program for Iraq.

Yakovlev was stripped of his diplomatic immunity earlier Monday by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and taken into custody by federal authorities..."

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165124,00.html Click here to read the whole article.
The main thing I wanted to cover here was that a U.N. official, actually had the brass to fess up to taking bribes on the Oil-for-food program. We can only hope that his fellow communists-, I mean dictators-, I mean..."officials"... follow in his footsteps and do the right thing... though in some cases hope is lost... All we can do is pray boys and girls.

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