Check out Wyatt's donor list: Dem Fat Cat Confesses To “Oil-For-Food” Bribes
From an outraged (that he’s been caught) Associated Press:
sweetness-light.com
Wyatt Pleads Guilty at U.N. Oil-For-Food Trial
Monday, October 01, 2007
NEW YORK — Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he paid millions of dollars to Iraqi officials to illegally win contracts connected to the United Nations oil-for-food program.
Wyatt told the federal judge in Manhattan that he agreed in December 2001 to advise others to pay a surcharge into an Iraqi account in Jordan in violation of a program rule calling for no direct payments to Iraq…
The plea deal calls for Wyatt to be sentenced on Nov. 27 to 18 to 24 months in prison, unless the judge decides otherwise. He also has agreed to forfeit $11 million…
During the trial, prosecutors demonstrated that Wyatt had such a close relationship with Iraq that he was able to meet personally with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in December 1990 to argue for the release of Americans being held as potential shields in the event of a U.S.-Iraq war.
Prosecutors played a tape for the jury of the conversation in which Hussein promised Wyatt that Americans would be released as Wyatt and former Texas Gov. John Connally spoke sympathetically about Iraq’s plight.
The government insisted that Wyatt later took advantage of that relationship to secure the first contract under the oil-for-food program and to continue to receive oil deals after other American companies were shut off prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003…
In his 1990 talk with Hussein, Wyatt could be heard telling Saddam that he had visited Iraq as many as 40 times in the previous 15 years and that he was “largely responsible” for a lot of the transactions in which Iraqis sold one-third of their oil exports to the United States.
A quick check of the FEC’s individual contributor search reveals:
Non-Federal Receipts “Exempt From Limits”
WYATT, OSCAR S
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORP
DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL
11/09/2000
100000.00
20036584308
RNC REPUBLICAN NATIONAL STATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
11/07/2000
100000.00
20036566056
WYATT, OSCAR S
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORPORATION
DSCC/NON-FED UNINCORP ASSOC
08/13/2002
40000.00
22020641854
Total Soft Money: 240000.00
Contributions to Political Committees
WYATT, OSCAR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORP
GREEN, RAYMOND E. ‘GENE’
VIA GENE GREEN CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
09/20/1998
1000.00
98033720076
WYATT, OSCAR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
RETIRED
KERREY, J ROBERT
VIA KERREY FOR U S SENATE COMMITTEE
10/30/1999
1000.00
20020071458
WYATT, OSCAR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
SELF/INVESTOR
GREEN, RAYMOND E. ‘GENE’
VIA GENE GREEN CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
07/10/2004
1000.00
24971733337
09/28/2004
1000.00
24971733338
08/13/2005
1000.00
25971190717
04/19/2006
1000.00
26950255984
08/30/2006
1000.00
26960503555
WYATT, OSCAR S
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORPORATION
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
07/28/1997
10000.00
97032344560
WYATT, OSCAR S
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORPORATION/CEO
LAMPSON, NICHOLAS V
VIA LAMPSON FOR CONGRESS
04/28/2007
1000.00
27930927151
WYATT, OSCAR S
HOUSTON, TX 77046
NUCOASTAL/CHAIRMAN & CEO
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
03/31/2004
5000.00
24991153675
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORP
DASCHLE, THOMAS ANDREW
VIA NEW LEADERSHIP FOR AMERICA PAC
09/19/1997
1000.00
98020052612
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COASTAL CORPORATION
KENNEDY, JOSEPH P II
VIA CITIZENS FOR JOE KENNEDY 1988
03/17/1997
500.00
97032290515
MCCAIN, JOHN S
VIA MCCAIN FOR SENATE ‘98
05/27/1997
1000.00
97020091812
05/27/1997
1000.00
97020091812
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
COSTAL CORPORATION
DINGELL, JOHN D MR.
VIA JOHN D. DINGELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
07/31/2000
1000.00
20036123512
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
ENGINEER
CORNYN, JOHN
VIA TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC
11/29/2004
2000.00
25020061851
11/29/2004
2000.00
25020061852
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
NUCOASTAL CORP./EXECUTIVE
CONRAD, GAYLORD KENT
VIA FRIENDS OF KENT CONRAD
08/19/2005
1000.00
25020391919
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
RETIRED
BENTSEN, KENNETH EDWARD JR
VIA KEN BENTSEN FOR US SENATE COMMITTEE
10/09/2001
1000.00
22020300712
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON IV
VIA FRIENDS OF SENATOR ROCKEFELLER
06/22/2001
1000.00
21020111754
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77046
THE COASTAL CORPORATION
BREAUX, JOHN B
VIA JOHN BREAUX COMMITTEE
04/27/1998
1000.00
98020142089
04/27/1998
1000.00
98020142089
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77098
CORNYN, JOHN
VIA TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC
06/25/2007
-400.00
27020261220
WYATT, OSCAR S JR
HOUSTON, TX 77098
SELF EMPLOYED (NUCOASTAL CORP)/EN
CORNYN, JOHN
VIA TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC
05/11/2007
-300.00
27020260996
05/11/2007
300.00
27020260996
05/11/2007
1000.00
27020260996
WYATT, OSCAR S JR.
HOUSTON, TX 77046
SELF/ENGINEER
ROMERO, RICHARD M.
VIA RICHARD ROMERO FOR CONGRESS
10/25/2004
1000.00
24991359409
WYATT, OSCAR S JR.
REALITOS, TX 78376
RETIRED/RETIRED
RICHARDSON, BILL
VIA RICHARDSON FOR PRESIDENT INC.
04/17/2007
2300.00
27990547546
WYATT, OSCAR S MR JR
HOUSTON, TX 77098
RETIRED
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON IV
VIA FRIENDS OF JAY ROCKEFELLER
06/01/2007
2300.00
27020213312
WYATT, OSCAR S. JR.
HOUSTON, TX 77046
SELF-EMPLOYED/ENGINEER
DINGELL, JOHN D MR.
VIA JOHN D. DINGELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
07/18/2002
1000.00
22992116849
07/18/2002
1000.00
22992116848
WYATT, OSCAR S. MR. JR.
HOUSTON, TX 77046
RETIRED
BENTSEN, KENNETH EDWARD JR
VIA KEN BENTSEN FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
10/09/2001
1000.00
22990345751
MCCAIN, JOHN S
VIA MCCAIN 2000 INC
01/31/2000
1000.00
20990048188
WYATT, OSCAR S. MR. JR.
HOUSTON, TX 77046
SELF EMPLOYED/RETIRED
BELL, R CHRISTOPHER
VIA CHRIS BELL U.S. CONGRESS COMMITTEE
03/09/2004
1000.00
24991066232
Total Contributions: 47700.00
>>>>>>Gee, what a surprise. Surely this will be bruited from the rooftops by our watchdog media.
The plea deal calls for Wyatt to be sentenced on Nov. 27 to 18 to 24 months in prison…
By the way, what was “Scooter” Libby’s sentence again?<<<<<<< |
