Top McCain Fundraiser, War Profiteer Sued Over Iraq Fuel Deal
By Logan Murphy Wednesday May 28, 2008 4:00pm
A little-noticed civil lawsuit in Florida is shining a light on an unusual but hugely profitable Pentagon contract to ship millions of gallons of aviation fuel to U.S. bases in Iraq through the kingdom of Jordan.
The deal involves a cast of influential characters, including the king of Jordan’s brother-in-law, who is suing Harry Sargeant III, a top Florida-based fundraiser for Sen. John McCain's presidential bid.
Al-Saleh alleges in the lawsuit that after he arranged the deal, he was cut out in a scheme meant to defraud him. He claims that he and Sargeant and the third partner, Mustafa Abu-Naba'a, a Jordanian businessman, had invested in IOTC Jordan in 2004. But, he says, Sargeant and Abu-Naba'a committed fraud by forming another company called IOTC USA in Florida without informing him and by channeling the Pentagon contracts through that firm. Al-Saleh is suing Sargeant, Abu Naba’a and the company for $13 million as his share of the profit from the 2005 contract, plus an unspecified amount of profit from the 2007 contract. Read on...
No wonder Senator McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years, one of his top fundraisers is making hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from it -- and you can rest assured, Sargent isn't the only war profiteer who keeps McCain neatly tucked in his back pocket.
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Another war profiteer that McCain tucks in somewhere is Joe Lieberman.
The thought of so much money going to corporate thieves, and Bush vetoing S-CHIP makes me want to puke. Anybody else for a revolution? Up against the wall, muthafkrs!
Can you say "class action lawsuit" against all war profiteers?
Put Exxon on the top of that list, and name the Rockefellers individually (David et al).
They have enlisted our military as their private security firm for the purpose of withholding Iraq's oil FROM the market, thereby destroying the value of the US (petro) dollar and tripling the price of oil and gas - destroying the US economy in the process - all at the sole expense of the US Taxpayer - to say nothing of the lives lost.
Who could've expected such behavior from a member of the Keating 5?
A connection between a Republican presidential candidate and corrupt business?
Better tell the Chamber of Commerce people!!!
McCain has no morals and no ethics. Why would the people he hires be any different?
You know, this leach has sucked enough money out of everyone just being a Senator. Imagine what it would be like if he was Pres.? Arizona needs to recall his tan-freckled ass.
Operation feather-nest
sorry, off topic. Suicide rates of the military are the highest in almost 20 years
This whole thing in Iraq was about nothing but profit.
They'd sell their own mother for profit.
Sheesh, and the general election hasn't even started yet, Oh man, is this gonna be brutal this time around.
"So it's a PROFIT deal . . well that takes the pressure off."
Navin R. Johnson
Why should Sen. Obama accompany mcchimpy to Iraq? So mcchimpy can check on his oil deals.
mcchimpy is so stupid, almost as stupid as his mentor.
he is nose deep in the same old shit; lies, deceit, thievery, warmongering and tyranny.
mcchimpy (crook) and Sen. Obama are tied in the polls? who does the repug msm think they are fooling?
Go Obama!
Go USA!
Blue Lensman @ 10:
"DIE, MILKFACE!!!!"
The war profiteers will screw each other for money. Worse than aliens.
Ripley: "You know Burke, I don't know who's worse. At least you don't see them fucking each other over for a piece of the action."
Do you think McCain can mange the rare trick of losing the nomination when running unopposed? The shear volume of sleaze should eventually penetrate all but the thickest of skulls.
The purpose of keeping the Iraq war going is keeping the Iraq war going.
"And that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair. "
sounds like al saleh is jordans version of bandar in saudi. good luck in court complaining that you didn't get your kickback.
I'm such a chump for earning an honest living.
This is a huge story. Yet, this is the last we will hear of it. Down the memory hole!
Rep. Duncan Hunter's deep political and defense contracting ties formed over more than a quarter-century in Congress are paying off for his son at a critical moment. Among Duncan D. Hunter's most generous campaign contributors as he runs to succeed his retiring father are the elder Hunter's congressional colleagues and defense contractors.' 5/30
I've always thought the real reason for the Iraq War was for the redistribution of wealth -- from taxpayers to Bush and Cheney's friends. When they get enough (if that's possible), the War will end.
the understands that mcAssenheimer is a goods guy and that this is an aberration. one of about 131 aberrations, but an aberration nonetheless.
MN USA @ 23:
the war will never end. they will never get enough.
mudshark hussein @ 9:
gotta veto that GI bill, too. Just like he had to veto a raise for the troops' salary.
Are ANY of McCain's lobbyists not tied to greed/murder/war/God-only-knows-what?
Lets start impeachment proceedings on McCain now, just in case he gets elected. Oh I forgot we have to check with Nancy and Harry. By the way, day after day on C&L there is one scandal after another regarding McCain. Isn`t anyone calling him to task on all this shit? WTF is going on? Obama doesn`t wear a pin on his lapel and the sky is falling.
war profiteers all. they all cheat with a smile. McCain also wants to remove Russia from the G8. He will take the entire world back to the stupid Cold War days, launch attacks because he is pissed with his dog and get cheap fuel for America. Americans no doubt will support him like they have Bush.
Isn't it just sickening how they refuse to share the profits of war with their criminal compatriots? Where is their integrity?
Salon has some of this profitting covered. It's a sickness we have as a country. it is a cancer. It must be treated if the body politic is to remain pertinent and legitimate.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/07/tenet_money
http://www.salon.com/news/excerpt/2008/05/29/spies_for_hire/
Yep. This Mcbush is just a corrupt republican. Most of the ones they had in the primary were corrupt too.
nony @ 3:
I was thinking the same thing. We need a $9 Trillion lawsuit. Naming Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Farming, War Inc. agencies, and possibly some media groups and as co-conspirators, some of these astro-turf think tanks who serve up garbage that gets taken as fact by the media.
The US is going to be lacking a lot of funds, and I think it should come from all the multinationals who backed Bush's putsch and war-profiteering -- not to mention being parasites on our country for about 25 years.
I hope that Obama brings this up every time he faces McCain. They seem to blow every peccadillo out of the water on the right -- and the Dems constantly hold back on the HUGE treasons these profiteers commit.
Of course, he needs to do it in a respectful and classy way. "I was wondering when you were going to stop profiting from oil shipments to our military in Iraq -- have you done something about that Mr. McCain?" "Would it be safe to assume that you have someone on your staff, who is NOT paid for by a foreign government or corporation interested in lobbying our government -- I mean, as a token gesture towards the interests of the public." "Mr. McCain -- I can understand why you don't publish your wife's tax returns -- but I doubt it is because you are hiding any ill gotten gains -- a person like yourself is far too sophisticated in enriching themselves through government contracts and favors to be caught putting money in a Bank in the US. So how are your Dubai accounts holding up?"
Just repeat this stuff. Very much like what we have had to endure for many years now -- except these innuendoes are based upon reality.
Fuck that puke, McCain. He makes me want to vomit!
He and all his douchebag friends need to be strung up. They have destroyed a great nation for their own greedy wants.
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