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Iraq: Saddam Hussein's United Nations take is now pegged at more than $20 billion. And don't think all this loot went into palaces and gold-plated plumbing.
The United Nation's corrupt oil-for-food program, already on the record books as history's most expensive scandal, just keeps getting bigger.
Congressional investigators now figure that Saddam Hussein's regime made more than $21.3 billion from oil-for-food through surcharges, kickbacks, oil smuggling, front companies and other scams.
The new estimate, provided to the Senate Committee on Government Affairs,...
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