He had a thin wad of Iraqi money, which now has a bullet hole in it.
But while most of the corruption allegations centre on the Iraqi money, the financial chaos also extended to projects financed by US taxpayers.
"It is also clear from Ambassador Crocker's testimony that after five years of training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, and after five years of reconstruction, it is still the American taxpayer who is shouldering the greatest economic burden in Iraq, while tens of billions of dollars in Iraqi money sit in bank accounts around the world, " said Levin, of Michigan.
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The board previously had accused the Coalition Provisional Authority of inadequate management of Iraqi oil money, and failure to safeguard against corruption.
The American public is starting to worry about the cost and nobody knows how exactly Iraqi oil money might be used to pay the bill.
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Allegations of impropriety in the awarding of contracts in the US, chaos at the occupation authority that ran post-war Iraq and large sums of Iraqi oil money disappearing apparently without any record of how it was spent.
Until now, the CERFs have been drawn from frozen Iraqi assets, regime money caches and Saddam's bank accounts seized in the course of liberating the country.
Or, in my freaky Ron Paul moments, I wonder if perhaps the CIA is minting money to buy off Iraqi insurgents.
Still, many American contractors will probably risk the wrath of Iraqi courts because a lot of money is still to be made.
According to the memo, U.S. intelligence received reports that Iraq provided safe havens, money, weapons and fraudulent Iraqi and Syrian passports to al Qaeda.
And on the days that I didn't, I leaned on you, the soldier on his third tour of duty in Iraq who told his wife, an Iraqi veteran herself, to take his spending money and donate it to our campaign instead...
Prosperity and letting every Iraqi get a cut of the country's oil money would permit a diffusion of political power from the center.
Let us maximize the likelihood of a rapid victory by beginning immediately to assist the Iraqi opposition on the ground inside Iraq by providing them money and assistance already authorized and appropriated.
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The Iraqi government is barely able to collect taxes and spending is financed almost entirely from oil money.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Mr Bowen there had been "misspending" of US money.
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