Texas Oil Exec Gets Prison for UN Scheme

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Mar 7, 2:45 PM EST

Oil Exec Gets Prison for UN Scheme

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Texas oil executive was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for approving the payment of millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime so he could secure large oil shipments through a United Nations program.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin also fined David Chalmers $9 million. He sentenced Chalmers' companies, Bayoil USA and the Bahamas-based Bayoil Supply & Trading Ltd., to three years probation.

Chalmers pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Without a deal with prosecutors, he could have faced more than 60 years in prison.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OIL_FOR_FOOD?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

funny his name does not sound French...

all that fuss about the oil for food stuff and he gets 2 years.
 
uscitizen said:
Mar 7, 2:45 PM EST

Oil Exec Gets Prison for UN Scheme

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Texas oil executive was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for approving the payment of millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime so he could secure large oil shipments through a United Nations program.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin also fined David Chalmers $9 million. He sentenced Chalmers' companies, Bayoil USA and the Bahamas-based Bayoil Supply & Trading Ltd., to three years probation.

Chalmers pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Without a deal with prosecutors, he could have faced more than 60 years in prison.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OIL_FOR_FOOD?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

funny his name does not sound French...

all that fuss about the oil for food stuff and he gets 2 years.
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Check his history, he's originally French but looks like he changed his name once in America.
 
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He disagreed with a lawyer for Chalmers, Andrew Weissmann, who urged leniency for Chalmers in part because he did not know Saddam personally and had never met with him. Weissmann said Chalmers was less directly involved than his co-defendant, Oscar Wyatt, another Texas oilman.

Wyatt was sentenced last year to a year and a day in prison after he interrupted his trial by pleading guilty to conspiracy in the case.

O'Callaghan said the government had only proven that Wyatt paid $200,000 in kickbacks while it could be proven that Chalmers paid at least $9 million.
 
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