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An apologetic World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz Thursday confessed to errors over a pay scandal surrounding his girlfriend, and left his fate up to the global lender's national governors...
I made a mistake, for which I am sorry," Wolfowitz told a news conference, as uproar deepened over an employment package worth nearly 200,000 dollars given by the World Bank to his Libyan-born partner, Shaha Riza.
According to a Financial Times report Thursday, Wolfowitz personally ordered massive pay rises given to Riza when she was sent from the World Bank's communications office to serve out an assignment at the US State Department...
The FT cited two people who had seen a memo from Wolfowitz to the head of human resources spelling out the terms of Riza's generous package, which grew to total more even than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earns.
The controversy is a deep embarrassment for Wolfowitz just as he battles to overcome skepticism about a campaign that he is waging against corruption in the 185-member World Bank's multi-billion-dollar lending
I made a mistake, for which I am sorry," Wolfowitz told a news conference, as uproar deepened over an employment package worth nearly 200,000 dollars given by the World Bank to his Libyan-born partner, Shaha Riza.
According to a Financial Times report Thursday, Wolfowitz personally ordered massive pay rises given to Riza when she was sent from the World Bank's communications office to serve out an assignment at the US State Department...
The FT cited two people who had seen a memo from Wolfowitz to the head of human resources spelling out the terms of Riza's generous package, which grew to total more even than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earns.
The controversy is a deep embarrassment for Wolfowitz just as he battles to overcome skepticism about a campaign that he is waging against corruption in the 185-member World Bank's multi-billion-dollar lending
Wolfy goes from member of the Project for the New American Century, into Dep. Secretary of Defence, One of the Chief architects of the Iraq War (He was the guy who sold the War with WMDs), to President of the World Bank.
His track record is "spotty" to say the least.
However, if he loses this job, Bush might as well start put him in charge of negotiating with Libya. I figure since he's banging one, he's more qualified for that than any of his previous jobs.