3 U.S. oil companies subpoenaed in Iraq probe

[mom cat]

3 U.S. oil companies subpoenaed in Iraq probe
Federal grand jury looking into U.N. oil-for-food program
From Jonathan Wald
CNN
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 Posted: 11:15 PM EDT (0315 GMT)


Exxon Mobil Corporation

ChevronTexaco Corporation

Valero Energy Corporation

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Three of America's biggest oil and gas companies have received subpoenas from federal prosecutors related to the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.

Exxon Mobil Corp., ChevronTexaco Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. -- all major buyers of Iraqi oil under the U.N.-managed program -- were sent subpoenas last week by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

"We are responding appropriately," said Prem Nair, spokeswoman for Exxon Mobil, the largest provider of gas and oil in the United States.

"We purchased oil through the oil-for-food program from the beginning of the program to its end, and everything we did was within U.S. law and U.N. guidelines," Nair said.

Jeff Moore, a spokesman for ChevronTexaco, the country's second biggest oil and gas provider, said the company is cooperating with the "request for information."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/22/oil.program/index.html

[AlecBGreen]

1. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

[Tight_rope]

2. I hope they all go down. Damn thieves.

[daleo]

3. They will get a pass

However, if they are implicated interest in pursuing the presumed scandal will melt into the air.