100 Fraud Claims Probed

I did a search at The LA Times in an attempt to find the articles they have published on the Oil-For-Food scandal. There is one article. This one. Nothing else. FoxNews broke the story how many months ago? Proof that the Leftist media doesn't want the public to know what's happening. Proof that the Leftist media has a hard-line agenda against President Bush.

After the bloody massacre of the Leftist media after the election, you'd think someone at The LATimes would pull their head out of their ass and get back on-track with the way things really are in the world. Wishful thinking? Perhaps.

This article's last line is "It gives no details." Has The LATimes not heard of the Duelfer Report? This is all too absurd.

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
100 Fraud Claims Probed
November 1, 2004
From Reuters

WASHINGTON — U.S. investigators have opened more than 100 cases this year into alleged abuse involving the billions of dollars in U.S. and Iraqi funding to rebuild Iraq, says an auditors' report that is to be released today.

The report says most allegations involve fraud, waste and abuse of funds, and 40% are linked to reprisals, theft and other issues. It says 75 cases have been closed or referred to other U.S. agencies and 38 remain open.

The report was prepared for Congress by the inspector-general's office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S. occupying power dissolved in June.

The inspector-general's office said it expected to release an audit this month on the CPA's handling of money from the Development Fund for Iraq.

The fund includes proceeds from Iraqi oil sales, frozen assets from foreign governments and surplus money from the U.N. "oil-for-food" program.

A leaked draft of that audit says at least $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds given to Iraqi ministries by the CPA cannot be accounted for.

In addition to the CPA investigations, the FBI has at least five open and pending cases involving Iraq, with two recent ones focusing on public corruption and government fraud, the report says. It gives no details.