October 31, 2005

Southfield developer named in report on oil-for-food scandal

Among the handful of Americans named by Paul Volcker in his final report on the United Nations oil-for-food scandal is Shakir al-Khafaji, a Southfield developer with ties to Iraq . Al-Khafaji, the report says, was given 12 million barrels of valuable oil allocations between 1995 and 2002 from Saddam's Baathist government for facilitating oil deals. Al-Khafaji is noted as a former student at Wayne State University and Lawrence Technological University in the 1970's and as a campaign contributor to David Bonior, now a professor at Wayne State .

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