Top McCain Bundler Allegedly Bagged Lucrative Pentagon Iraq Contract Through Jordanian Connection

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Top McCain Bundler Allegedly Bagged Lucrative Pentagon Iraq Contract Through Jordanian Connection

By http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/Greg%20Sargent%20and%20Eric%20Kleefeld">Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - August 6, 2008, 12:34PM

Today's Washington Post has a much-discussed piece about a top McCain fundraiser named Harry Sargeant, who has "bundled" a huge amount of campaign contributions for McCain from a host of unlikely donors.

But there's another huge piece of the story that WaPo didn't report on -- one that could create complications for McCain.

Sargeant is the owner of an oil-trading company that has a lucrative Pentagon contract to supply fuel to the U.S. military in Iraq by way of Jordan -- and he's also reportedly getting sued by the brother-in-law of the King of Jordan over that contract.

In the suit, the brother-in-law, who is or was Sargeant's business partner, alleged that he used his connections in Jordan to help get wire the Pentagon contract for Sargeant only to get subsequently defrauded out of profits for it. He alleges that he persuaded Jordan to allow IOTC to deliver the fuel through Jordan -- a necessary requirement for getting the Pentagon contract.

What this means for McCain isn't really clear. But the upshot is that one of the more prolific bundlers for McCain appears to have bagged a huge contract to deliver fuel to the U.S. military in Iraq, even though he wasn't the lowest bidder for that contract, allegedly by relying partly on a connection in Jordan to deliver it.


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