Reply #7: They asked Khodorkovsky to come in for questioning [View All]

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His staff said he couldn't make it, since he was busy, so they picked him up. He's getting investigated for tax fraud.

We should BE so lucky to ever see something like happen in this country to Ken Lay and his ilk...

I think that Bush is bent because Khodorkovsky was going to sell off a chunk of Yukos to Exxon-Mobile before he was picked up. I think that the Bush Crime Syndicate was very much involved with Khodorkovsky (remember Papa Bush's little trip to Russia recently?), and that's why Bush is trying to throw the US's weight around to influence the Russian court. Just another subversion of our foreign policy for his and his cronies gain.

The 'threat' BushCo thinks they are holding over the Russians is that if this goes 'bad', then Big US Money will leave Russia (ie., Bush will characterize it as a 'return to the past totalitarianism' if Khodorkovsky is convicted). However, I'm not sure that someone wouldn't just come right in to take their place, so I don't think it's much of a threat at this point.