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Who was one of the major players in the UN oil-for-food scandal? Billionaire fugitive Marc Rich:
And for seventeen years, who served as Mr. Rich's attorney? Dick Cheney's chief advisor, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. With Libby having presumably been well compensated with money from many of Rich's ill gotten gains, one would think that the WSJ's oil for food investigator Claudia Rosett would be anxious to get right on it. As she writes here, "The problem ... isn't 'tone' at the top. It's accountability at the top, and secrecy throughout." An apt description of Cheney's office if ever there was one, but Rosett was, predictably, referring to the UN. Follow the money, Ms. Rosett!Investigators say they have received information that Rich and Ben Pollner, a New York-based oil trader who heads Taurus Oil, set up a series of companies in Liechtenstein and other countries that they used to put together deals between Saddam and his international supporters in the controversial oil-voucher scheme...Investigators now believe Rich and Pollner brokered many of the deals by finding buyers for the oil allocated to people who were bribed by Saddam.