Philip H. The court papers unsealed yesterday paint a picture of how Bloom, a businessman with operations in the United States and Romania, used gifts of cash, cars, plane tickets and jewelry to secure lucrative reconstruction contracts from December to December Bloom also supplied women to provide sexual favors at his Baghdad villa to the CPA officials who helped ensure that his companies won the contracts he wanted.
There are more indictments coming, and there's more below the fold Today's WaPo reports on the guilty plea of Philip H. It was like a friggin' mafia-run whorehouse and casino :.
E-mail exchanges between Bloom and his conspirators show that they had highly specific demands for what bribes they wanted.
Another, the chief of staff, apparently instructed Bloom through an intermediary that he wanted an electric-blue Nissan Z hard-top convertible but that there were only two such cars in the western United States. Stein, Jr. Yes, folks, you can't legally vote in parts of the US if you're a convicted felon, but you can get Iraq reconstruction contracts worth millions of taxpayer dollars Apart from all the sordid details and you have to wonder if Bloom's whorehouse was inside the Green Zone it's worth noting that there are several more indictments expected:.
More arrests are likely. The documents unsealed yesterday refer to an unidentified co-conspirator who was chief of staff for the CPA office in Al-Hillah, which supervised the reconstruction of all of south-central Iraq. Community This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Recommend Unrecommend Add to Blog. Edit Tags. Done Editing Tags. Share this article. Wanna know one more reason why so many Generals think Donald Rumbsfeld's departure is long overdue?
