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A South Korean businessman convicted of accepting at least $2 million to secretly work on Iraq 's behalf to influence the United Nations' oil-for-food program was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.

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STONERS
Feb. 22, 2007, 4:55 p.m.
The judge called it a "harsh" sentence for a 71-year-old man in poor health but said it was reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances.
"You acted out of greed, acted to profit out of what was supposed to be a humanitarian program," the judge said.
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TheTruthIsHere
Feb. 23, 2007, 3:31 a.m.
This guy is a fall guy for a Canadian billionaire who really ran the oil for food scam.....Maurice Strong, through his admitted association to media dubbed "Koreagate man", Tongsun Park. "In 1994, Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev, working through organizations they each founded, restarted the Earth Charter as a civil society initiative, with the help of the Government of the Netherlands.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan stands the powerful Canadian multi-billionaire Maurice Strong. The founder of both the World Economic Council and Planetary Citizens, World Future Society, trustee Rockefeller Foundation and Aspen Institute, member of the Club of Rome. As head of the Earth Council, he began to prepare an Earth Charter-a global code of conduct based on global values and radical environmental guidelines. He was got millions of dollars from Saddam Hussein during the UN "Food for Oil" travesty.
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