Architect of Iraq War Busted For Strongarming Pay Raises for Girlfriend
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on April 13th, 2007 4:00 am by HL
World Bank boss admits mistake on girlfriend’s job
Washington Post
Excerpt:
Wolfowitz personally ordered the hefty pay rises given to his Libyan-born partner, Shaha Riza, according to a Financial Times report published on Thursday.
It cited two people who had seen a memo from Wolfowitz to the head of human resources spelling out the terms of the package…
While still on the World Bank payroll, she was rapidly promoted and ended up with a $200,000 package – more than Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state.
Wolfowitz acknowledged that the situation surrounding Riza “had the potential to harm this institution” and stressed that he had initially wanted no involvement in her employment terms.
Given his romantic involvement with her, he faced a “painful personal dilemma when I was new to the institution” but had made a “good-faith effort to promote my understanding of that advice” of the ethics committee.
More from CNN
Wolfowitz, who was nominated for the bank job in 2005 by President Bush, joined the institution from the Pentagon, where he was one of the architects of Iraq war.
He has faced lingering distrust by many staff members and resentment over his close ties to the Bush administration and his role in the Iraq war that have overshadowed his first two years at the bank.
The bank’s staff representative association, which demanded last week that Wolfowitz explain his actions, have called on Wolfowitz to resign, saying it seemed impossible for the institution, whose mission is to fight global poverty, to move forward “with any sense of purpose under the present leadership.”
HL’s Take
This guy is the man who put the biggest debacle in American history in motion. He is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, in the biggest failure in the history of the earth, so of course Bush promotes him and makes him the President of The World Bank (we won’t even get into what’s going on over there) But the only way he can get any is to give the “woman” $200,000. Hey Paulie you could have gotten some through the DC Madam for a lot less, and saved your job. Of course Bush has already made a statement of support for his brother in evil.
