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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (663474)	12/1/2004 10:34:53 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

kennyboy must be bald: worried about the clean air, green space, deficits, dollar and stock market, teenage pregnancy, church and state, local election and the lost cause of the liberal demohacks... Kennyboy is pulling and pulling his hair .....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (663474)	12/1/2004 11:50:55 PM
From: steve dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You can bet that when the tax increase comes it will be weighted towards those that received the least tax cuts.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (663474)	12/2/2004 9:30:28 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769667

KOJO CASHED IN ON DADDY, NOTES REVEAL By NILES LATHEM Post Correspondent December 2, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan used his father's worldwide connections to wheel and deal with heads of state — at U.N. gatherings — on behalf of a controversial Swiss company that won a lucrative oil-for-food program contract, The Post has learned. The intense lobbying by Annan's 29-year old son, Kojo, was disclosed in a raft of internal company documents — including Kojo Annan's expense reports — that the company recently turned over to congressional committees under a subpoena. The memos provide the most revealing look to date at the business conflicts that are now at center stage of history's biggest financial scandal. They also place the younger Annan and his father far closer to each other than the U.N. has previously disclosed. According to records reviewed by The Post, Kojo Annan, while working for the Cotecna firm, enjoyed extraordinary access to U.N. diplomats and other international dignitaries because of his father's position. Kofi Annan had claimed earlier this week that he did not know the full extent of his son's dealings with Cotecna. But the documents indicate that the son of the U.N. secretary-general was clearly trading on his father's name to win business for Cotecna, where he worked from 1995 to 1998. Congress and an independent panel headed by Paul Volcker are investigating Cotecna — which was supposed to check products entering Iraq under the oil-for-food program — for possibly allowing Saddam Hussein to evade sanctions, as well as irregularities with its U.N. contract. In one billing memo, Kojo Annan requested compensation for eight days of work in July 1998 — including six days "during my father's visit to Nigeria." In New York in September 1998, Kojo Annan also held a series of meetings with heads of state and government ministers — primarily from Africa — to drum up business for Cotecna Inspection Services SA during the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly. Three months after Annan's New York visit, in late December, Cotecna won the $4.8 million contract as the lowest bidder. In one invoice, the younger Annan, who was then a marketing consultant for Cotecna, billed the company $500 a day for a 15-day trip to New York for "U.N. General Assembly and various meetings relating to other special projects." The invoice indicates he was trying to help Cotecna win contracts in Nigeria and other African countries. Investigators said they do not know what other "special projects" Annan was referring to. The bill also included a trip to Durban, South Africa, a few weeks earlier when Annan attended a second U.N-sponsored meeting of African members of the Non-Aligned Movement. He reported in a memo to Cotecna executives that at that session "many contacts were established at the presidential and political levels, ministerial levels and with certain influential people in the private sector" in order to market the company, which functions as a private customs service. Ginny Wolfe, a spokeswoman for Cotecna, confirmed last night that the younger Annan was sent to U.N. meetings in New York and South Africa to lobby African leaders on the company's behalf but said that "at no time" was he involved in any discussions about the upcoming oil-for-food contract. Kojo Annan's activities caught the U.N. off guard last night. "We are unaware of this. This is the first we are hearing of it," a spokesman said. nypost.com