Texan 'gave millions to Saddam' - BBC

[demoleft]

"A Texan oil billionaire has gone on trial in the US accused of paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government.
Oscar Wyatt, 83, is said to have given the money to Baghdad officials to illegally buy extra Iraqi oil under the United Nations' oil-for-food programme.
...
Iraq's post-Saddam Hussain government alleged in 2005 that as many as 2,000 Western businessmen, organisations and UN officials were involved in the scandal.
That same year, the US Senate concluded that corruption had allowed Saddam Hussein's government to pocket about $13.6bn (£6.7bn)."

BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6988929.stm

Who's this Mr. Wyatt? Never heard of.

[snappyturtle]

1. My mother in law who lives in Houston has been talking about

Oscar Wyatt for several weeks because of what she was reading in the Houston Chronicle. Here is a link to an article that explains who Wyatt is.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/5101917.html

[FreakinDJ]

2. A better questions is...

Why is this not being covered by US news outlets

Makes 1 wonder

[tanyev]

3. He's the daddy of playboy Steve Wyatt, who was the other party

in Sarah Ferguson's toe sucking photos in the early 90s.

[Lars39]

5. Now *that* is connecting the dots!

:D

[Justitia]

4. Bush family hates him, he screwed w/their Iraq War One. His wife is very high profile.

Much moreso than him. Lynn Wyatt has friends all over the world.

He was loudly against the first Iraq fiasco (because it interfered w/his biz) and that's why the Bushes hate him. He also went outside the loop and rescued some of his own oilworkers taken hostage and that REALLY pissed the Bushes off.

Complicated figure, and yes, he most likely continued making oil deals w/Iraq while Poppy was trying to take Saddam down the first time.