Judge restricts whistle-blowers over Iraq oil fund fraud.

[Democrats_win]

Sorry if this has been posted already. This is an example of how judges can help Halliburton-like crooks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101639.html

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A whistle-blower's lawsuit against alleged contract fraud in Iraq can continue, but the U.S. government lacks the authority to police the spending of billions of dollars of Iraqi oil money, a federal judge in Alexandria has ruled.

The decision in the case involving Fairfax security firm Custer Battles LLC was issued (Monday)....

...The workers claimed the company used shell companies in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to submit phony bills to the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq for the first year after the war.

If the authority were an American agency, there would be little question that the whistle-blowers could pursue their suit under the Fair Claims Act, Ellis said. But because "the essential nature" of the CPA is "shrouded with ambiguity," he ruled, the case depends on the origins of the money at the heart of the allegations.
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Save the weasels!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. *grrrrrr*

[Frederik]

2. Oh Jesus friggin Christ

Iraq wasn't even nominally sovereign at the time. Not a US agency my ass. Then what the hell was it. I guess Bremer was on a mission from Gawd.