Texan Pleads Not Guilty in U.N. Oil Probe

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1256634

Texan Pleads Not Guilty in U.N. Oil Probe
Texas Oilman Wyatt Pleads Not Guilty to Paying Saddam Kickbacks Under Oil-For-Food Program

NEW YORK Oct 27, 2005 — Texas oilman Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he conspired to pay several million dollars in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime to win contracts through the United Nations oil-for-food program.

His arm in a sling, the 81-year-old wealthy former chairman of Coastal Corp., who was arrested last week, entered the plea as U.S. District Judge Denny Chin set a June 20 trial date. Outside court later, he said he had undergone surgery on his arm, but he declined to comment on the case.

Two men previously charged in the case, David B. Chalmers Jr., sole shareholder of Houston-based Bayoil (USA) Inc., and oil trader Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian citizen and permanent U.S. resident, also entered not guilty pleas on a rewritten indictment.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Not guilty my ass. n.t

[Career Prole]

2. "Outside court later, he said he had undergone surgery on his arm"

Old bastard came down with a vicious case of "check-writer's elbow"...

[TomInTib]

3. Old Oscar has always been quite the rogue...

Old oil/New oil- Carter admin
Trading with Libya- Reagan
Commodities

on and on

Usually pays fines and trundles on