Sometimes you have to put on your hipboots and go wading through the muck of misinformation because occasionally you find a real stinker.
In this case a headline stating South Korean gets five years in oil-for-food-case. The South Korean is Tongsun Park, now 71, of Koreagate fame. He got $2 million from Iraq to influence UN and US officials and as the judge put it "blatently disregarded the law".
The thoroughly disgusting part of this story comes on page two when this same judge dismisses charges on Bayoil Supply and Trading Limited "a Bahamian company owned by David Chalmers" because the law it violated only applies to "American firms and people".
Hmmm...According to this story in the Washington Post from April 2005 Bayoil is a Houston-based company and Chalmers is a Texas oilman. And while Tongsun Park faced charges that could and did result in the maximum 5 years incarceration, Chalmers was looking at "62 years in prison, $1 million in fines and seizure of at least $100 million in personal and corporate assets". Sounds like he might have done something bad. No,no,no, you forget HE'S A TEXAS OILMAN.
Here's some juicy background courtesy of Wayne Madsen.
I didn't check to see if good ol' David Chalmers is a Bush Pioneer but I'd say the odds favor it. Good thing he didn't throw a cup of ice at a car, that's a crime you can actually go to jail for.
Do you want to know the real reason they threw the book at Tongsun Park.
Thirty years ago he gave some money to some democrats.
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