From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Quayle droppings
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:45:40 GMT
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In article <uocqRB1w165w@unkaphaed.UUCP>, popec@unkaphaed.UUCP (William C. Barwell) writes:
|> New York Village Voice  September 22 1992
|> 
|> DROPPING NAMES  -  AN IRAQGATE BANKER HINTS QUAYLE WAS INVOLVED
|>   By Robert Hennelly
|> 
|> Two weeks ago the federal court in Atlanta unsealed documents in the case 
|> of Cristopher Drogoul, who pleaded guilty in June to 60 of the 347 
|> felonies he was chrged with in connection to a banking loan scandal 
|> involving Iraq.   Drogoul, Banca Nazionale del Lovoro's Atlanta branch 
|> manager seems disinclined to take the fall alone, and since it's clear 
|> he's ready to sing at his sentancing hearing this week, the government is 
|> doing it's best to quiet him with a call for a harsh prison sentence.
|> Drougoul asserts that others, includin U.S. politicians were fully aware 
|> of the $5.5 Billion scam wherby USDA export credits abd loans, filtered 
|> throug the.... BNL, were used to build up Saddam Hussein's war machine.
|> Hoping to get his multidecade sentence reduced, Drogoul named names of 
|> politicos he insisted were cognizant of the BNL-Iraq connection.  Among 
|> those cited by Drougoul-names noticeably absent from press accounts-were 
|> Vice President Dan Quayle and Georgia's Wyche Fowler Jr.
|> ..........If, as Drogoul suggests, and U.S. Attorney quickly discounts, 
|> Quayle lobbied for an American company involvement in Iraqi weapons 
|> development efforts, the Bush Administration's hands are not as clean as 
|> professed.
|>   "This cover-up goes all the way to the top, to the white House" 
|> Drogoul's recently retained attorney, Bobby Lee Cook told the Voice.
|>   According to Drogoul, a prominent Indianopolis Republican, Beurt 
|> Servaas, sought the assistance of his state's senator --Dan Quayle -- in 
|> lining up a $40 million contract with Iraq for the consruction of a brass 
|> artillery shell recycling plant.
|> .......The vice president's spokeperson, Jeff Nesbit, who also servred in 
|> that capacity when Quayle was in the Senate, acknowledged to the Voice
|> that Servaas and Quayle "know each other quite well", but insisted that 
|> Servass never mentioned the Contract to Quayle.....
|> 
|> Poor Danny.  Dragged down into the filth and mire of Republican political 
|> games and corruption.  If only he had suurounded himself with wholesome
|> people his proud name would not be besmirched with his asociation with 
|> conmen, scam artists, convicted felons, and brutal 3rd world dictators.

If Dan Quayle is the great "back-room" politician who is good at
making deals and influencing people then he probably was invloved.
I guess Danny just didn't feel enough like a "real" politician so
he decided to take a walk through the slime with some of the other
scum of this administration(GHWB)!!!

Jared "I'm out of my skull" Dahl
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