Texas Oil For Food Scandal - All Hat No Cattle

[underpants]

http://www.allhatnocattle.net/4-14-05_david_chalmers_oil.htm

[Brotherjohn]

1. So how long before someone connects Bush to this Chalmers guy...

... and/or his company, Bay Oil.

I mean, he was an oilman in Texas. He's probably been over to the ranch at least once or twice for BBQ!

[rainbow4321]

2. Two Texas oilmen plead not guilty in oil-for-food probe

So do they head to trial and hopefully spill the beans on more Texans/shrubbies or do they do get offered a plea bargain in return for keeping their mouths shut?


http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D89HTC981.html

Two Houston oilmen pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that they cheated the United Nations oil-for-food program out of humanitarian aid funds by paying millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.

The pleas were entered by David B. Chalmers Jr., sole shareholder of Houston-based Bayoil (USA) Inc., and oil trader Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian citizen and permanent U.S. resident, during a brief proceeding in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Chalmers and Dionissiev entered their pleas before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, who continued to allow each of them to remain free on bail of $500,000, secured by $150,000 in cash.

Bart Dalton, a lawyer who said he has known Chalmers since the 1970s, spoke on behalf of the men outside court, saying they "entered pleas of not guilty for the best reasons possible. They are not guilty. We fully expect them to be exonerated of these charges."