Reply #54: This slush fund thing... this corruption, this spending of Saudi dollars

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with foreign military contractors whilst 30% unemployment is the rule of the day there, reminds me of another deal gone bad in Nigeria.... I PERSONALLY know someone who worked for MWI, who had to testify to the feds... who KNEW what went down in foreign countries concerning outlandish costs for pump repairs, etc, etc. If memory serves... an official in Nigeria who was in charge of purchasing said pumps may have ended up with a new vehicle as well.....

I saw the wake that MWI left at a major pumping operation in Florida (you know who you are) and what it ended up costing the taxpayer. Not pretty, not pretty at all.... not to mention the environmental damage done by hydraulically driven pumps being used where they NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED... EVER.

From seemslikeadream's post....
The slush fund — spent by Gardiner over 13 years from 1989 and 2002 — provided a £170,000 Rolls-Royce, other luxury cars, London apartments, private air travel and accommodation in five-star hotels in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. Under separate arrangements, middlemen also arranged prostitutes for some dignitaries.

The largesse was extended to Saudi officials and members of the country’s large royal family who controlled the kingdom’s arms procurement, the chief source of BAE’s income over the past 18 years.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1190953,00 ...


Posted on Tue, Jul. 30, 2002
Jeb Bush may be called in suit
BY TYLER BRIDGES

Miami Herald

>>A man suing a one-time business partner of Gov. Jeb Bush's in a Nigeria water-pump sale that went awry amid allegations of bribery wants to call Bush as a witness in the case whenever it goes to trial, an attorney confirmed Monday.<<

>>Democrats are hoping the legal case will force Bush to answer a question he has never fully addressed: What did he do to earn the $648,250 paid to him by Eller when Eller bought Bush's share of a different company, Bush-El Trading, in 1994? The Democrats have been trying to get Bush to answer this question since. They have noted that Eller co-hosted a fundraiser for Bush on June 17 in Davie.<<
more: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/3763565.htm?1c