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3 May 2007, 2:43 am
[JURIST] Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock said Thursday that the government plans to strengthen foreign bribery laws after a government commission concluded that the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) corporate website] paid roughly $220 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime to secure $2.3 billion in grain contracts under the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 9:06 am
<> NOAA graphics show how a Mackinac straits oil spill might look - Water currents model used during Enbridge exercise. [read post]
15 Jun 2006, 6:04 am
[JURIST] A federal grand jury has handed up another indictment against South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park [Washington Post profile], charging him Wednesday with lying to the FBI about his role in the adoption of the 1995 UN Security Council Resolution 986 [PDF text], which established the now-defunct Iraqi Oil-for-Food Program [UN materials; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Dec 2005, 10:27 am
Looking back on 2005 he also offered stinging criticism of the media coverage of the UN oil-for-food program [ [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 3:58 am
[JURIST] Russian authorities have asked Britain to extradite former Russneft [corporate website] oil company head Mikhail Gutseriyev, according to a Russian Ministry of the Interior [official website] spokesman Monday. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 5:29 pm
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19 May 2005, 8:31 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge issued a second 10-day restraining order Thursday blocking US congressional efforts to obtain documents that former investigator Robert Parton took with him when he resigned his role [JURIST report] in the probe of the UN Oil-for-Food Program [official website]. [read post]
13 May 2005, 1:47 am
[JURIST] A subcommittee of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce [official website] has released new documents that could implicate French and Russian officials [press release] in the scandal involving the UN Oil-for-Food [official website] program. [read post]
3 Feb 2005, 12:52 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Kofi Annan [official website] says he expects to see "harsh judgments" of the UN in an interim report to be released Thursday on the purported mismanagement of the $64 billion Oil-for-Food program. [read post]
18 Jan 2005, 6:15 am
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to announce Tuesday afternoon the first charges in the governemnt's investigation into alleged corruption in the UN-administered oil-for-food program [official website]. [read post]
3 Feb 2005, 9:10 am
[JURIST] Speaking late Thursday afternoon on behalf of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Chef du Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown [UN press release] said that the UN would take immediate disciplinary action against staff named as wrongdoers by the Volcker commission interim report [JURIST report] into the UN Oil for Food Program, and would waive diplomatic immunity as appropriate. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 3:06 pm
Cuomo [official website] announced on Monday that twelve states have filed suit [press release] against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] for its alleged failure to enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act [text; EPA materials] requiring oil refineries to adopt measures curbing the pollution contributing to global warming. [read post]
7 Feb 2006, 7:14 am
[JURIST] A document released to an Australian commission [Cole Commission official website] set up [JURIST report] to investigate alleged Australian connections to the oil-for-food scandal [JURIST news archive] Tuesday shows that Saddam Hussein personally assisted the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) [corporate website] in grain distribution in Iraq while it was supposedly paying his government [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 4:51 am
Bush issued a memorandum [presidential statement] Monday to the Secretary of the Interior, lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling [JURIST news archive] put in place in 1990 by then-President George H. [read post]
16 Feb 2005, 2:45 am
[JURIST] US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Patrick Kennedy [official profile] told a Senate committee Tuesday that US officials knew of problems in the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program [official website] but chose to remain silent. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 10:46 am
A month after Korean National Oil Corporation made a hostile bid for Scotland-based Dana Petroleum, Dana has announced a new deal to acquire Petro-Canada's U.K. assets and accused KNOC of undervaluing the company. [read post]
18 Jul 2005, 1:54 pm
In recent months, Strong has been implicated in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal [JURIST news archive] based on his ties to South Korean [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 6:32 pm
An earlier post discussed the Ninth Circuit's December 22 decision halving the plaintiffs' punitive damages award in the long-running Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 6:28 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted Saturday to approve spending legislation [H.R. 2638 text, PDF] approving the expiration of a Congressional moratorium on offshore oil drilling [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 2:08 pm
The Justice Department is now rejecting the position of the National Labor Relations Board and … Continue reading Justice Department No Longer Supporting NLRB in Murphy Oil Arbitration Case → [read post]
