World Bank Board Says Will Decide Soon On Wolfowitz

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

World Bank board says will decide soon on Wolfowitz
Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:48AM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's board of directors adjourned a meeting on Friday over the promotion by bank President Paul Wolfowitz of his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, saying it would move quickly to decide how to proceed.

In a statement, the board said it found that Wolfowitz signed off on Riza's promotion and salary increase without a review by an ethics committee nor the board's chairman. The promotion came shortly after he joined the institution in 2005.

"The executive directors will move expeditiously to reach a conclusion on possible actions to take," the board said.

"In their consideration of the matter the executive directors will focus on all relevant governance implications for the bank," it added.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1340701920070413

[lligrd]

1. He Deserves To Go Down For This Alone

But I sure hope he gets caught on the real attrocities he is guilty of.

[youngdem]

2. What is really ironic is that his whole stated purpose as bank prez was to combat corruption

In the countries that receive aid!

AHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAH

:rofl:

[izzie]

3. Get rid of him. Another guy who started at the top before he

learned any thing about how things work. He has ego problems as he is so sure he can run the world and what a mess he has also made. He makes a good Bush man.When are we Am. going to learn that we really can not run the world and every thing we do is not OK? He is really one of the Ugly Am. they write about.

[modrepub]

4. A Real Toadie

Love it! Usually you'll see some people come to the defense of a friend when they get in trouble. My guess is this prick has burned too many bridges in the past to have anyone of significance within the WB come to his aid.



Ah you're breathing faster
Silence the only sound
There's no need to be nice on the way up
Cos you're not coming down

Paperlate, Genesis

[Raven]

5. Read this portion of his statement about the "friend" and

tell me if you can make any sense of it at all.

Statement by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group
WB/IMF Spring Meetings 2007


Available in: Spanish


April 12, 2007

Video


Audio

Statement by Paul Wolfowitz,
World Bank President (MP3)



Paul Wolfowitz: "Let me just say a few words about the issue on everyone’s mind. Two years ago, when I came to the Bank, I raised the issue of a potential conflict of interest and asked to be recused from the matter. I took the issue to the Ethics Committee and after extensive discussions with the Chairman, the Committee’s advice was to promote and relocate Ms. Shaha Riza.


I made a good faith effort to implement my understanding of that advice, and it was done in order to take responsibility for settling an issue that I believed had potential to harm the institution. In hindsight, I wish I had trusted my original instincts and kept myself out of the negotiations. I made a mistake, for which I am sorry.



Let me also ask for some understanding. Not only was this a painful personal dilemma, but I also had to deal with it when I was new to this institution and I was trying to navigate in uncharted waters. The situation was unprecedented and exceptional. This was an involuntary reassignment and I believed there was a legal risk if this was not resolved by mutual agreement. I take full responsibility for the details. I did not attempt to hide my actions nor make anyone else responsible"



What is this "involuntary reassignment" all about??? What was the "legal risk" and "mutual agreement"???? Was Wolfowitz harrassing this woman?

I think there is a lot more to this than meets the eye.

[soothsayer]

7. He told them he was banging this chick, and they detailed her to

the state dept to keep it from looking like he showed any favoritism towards her.

[struggle4progress]

16. Wolfowitz 'acted without approval' says bank

From Times Online
April 13, 2007
Robert Lindsay

The board of directors of the World Bank found today that Paul Wolfowitz, the President of the bank, had moved his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, to a new government post at a salary of nearly $200,000 without review by its ethics committee.

The revelation appears to contradict earlier statements from Mr Wolfowitz's office.

The World Bank said that the ethics committee had "informally" advised Mr Wolfowitz to relocate Ms Riza but that it had not approved her new salary and terms and conditions, which were ordered by Mr Wolfowitz. ~snip~

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article1649063.ece


Statement by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group
WB/IMF Spring Meetings 2007

April 12, 2007

~snip~ Paul Wolfowitz: Let me just say a few words about the issue on everyone’s mind. Two years ago, when I came to the Bank, I raised the issue of a potential conflict of interest and asked to be recused from the matter. I took the issue to the Ethics Committee and after extensive discussions with the Chairman, the Committee’s advice was to promote and relocate Ms. Shaha Riza. ~snip~

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21295972~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

[soothsayer]

6. It's a good time to get rid of him if they truly don't like the direction

he's taking the bank (and I'm pretty sure he has been doing stuff they don't like). We'll see if they have what it takes to axe him.

[YDogg]

8. Kick him to the curb

[Demeter]

9. All the King's Horses and All the King's Men

are too busy putting lipstick on the other pigs.

[Pachamama]

10. Who are those "Board Directors" who get decide? How about the people who pay for the funding of the

World Bank (ie. stockholders aka TAXPAYERS) write to those Board Directors to tell them what we think????

[Scairp]

13. See NYT article dated today

What I don't get is this crap about how it just came out "on Thursday" about this Riza woman when I read about this more than two weeks ago. Who are they trying to fool?

WASHINGTON, April 12 — Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by the disclosure that he had helped arrange a pay raise for his companion at the time of her transfer from the bank to the State Department, where she remained on the bank payroll.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/world/13wolfowitz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Pachamama]

14. Even more surprising is that so many people have known for so long that he and this woman we shaggin

so why did it take so long for this to come out?

I often shake my head thinking about how much we know that they have done and then feel sick about that which we don't know about....

In a really sad way, his giving a job and pay raise to a woman he's sleeping with seems like nothing in the grand scheme of things - this man helped start the illegal war that is killing our soldiers and the Iraqi people....

Firing him for this nepotism and inappropriate behavior would be a slap on the hand compared to what should be done to this man....that he's a pig, that's obvious...what he really is, is a war criminal.

My personal punishment for Wolfowitz would be to fly him to Iraq and drop him right outside of Sadr City and let all the locals know he's coming....

[Brundle_Fly]

11. WHAT THE FUCK IS THERE TO DECIDE?

Breach of confidence, ethics? Using the world bank as his personal hummer fund.

Bernard Kerik has more ethical standards than this prick...

screwed us lyingly into a war, then screwed up the war, lost a few BILLION dollars, then got a promotion, and screwed over everyone he is supposed to represent AGAIN!

take your time, its a BIG decision.

[Kool Kitty]

12. Heck of job, Wolfie!

[Riverman]

15. Throw the creepy facist punk in jail for life for crime against humanity-

That is all that needs to happen to this pig! I feel like we are in Nazi Gernamny when the most hoorible people imaginable are destroying everything and nearly everybody around us. The World Fucking Bank! As the recognized architect of the Iraq war and henchman for the war profiteers (Bush family - Daddy and Neal, too, Cheney, Pearl, and sccores of others) This is a world class crimminal and anyone who supports this dog has the same blood on their hands of hundreds of thousands of dead and horribly disfigured human beings (Iraqi, American British and others), not to mention leaving the landscope poisened for for future generations there to suffer cancers and other maladies. I cannot stand seeing his slimmy rat face on the TV or even hear his name mentioned as it make my blood boil with rage.

That he would give his girlfriend (a disgusting image in itself) a job, is but one peek into the dark soul-less, amoral vessel of evil that is this vermin. (God, I'm sounding like Michael Savage - shoot me now!)

[calimary]

17. I'm still stopped cold - over the very notion that he even HAS a girlfriend.

Hideous individual! And I'm not talking appearance, either. Utterly unlovable - except of course if he arranges this nice little sweetheart deal for you at the State Department where you can park safely and you're "off the books" from the people's tab, at least technically. Can you have people working in government departments, especially Cabinet-level divisions, but paid by some other entity? Is that even ethical?

[bobthedrummer]

18. Consider this bit of research, a cross post about Shaha Ali Riza et al

"Elizabeth CHENEY was also a 'colleague' of Wolfowitz's partner Shaha Ali Riza"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x548152#651509

[Heidi]

19. Kick.

:kick:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. World Bank Board Weighs Response to Chief’s Actions

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 13 — The World Bank’s executive board was deliberating today what action to take regarding its president, Paul D. Wolfowitz, amid new evidence that he had not been entirely candid about his role in giving his girlfriend, a World Bank employee, a raise and transfer.

Documents released today by the executive board called into question Mr. Wolfowitz’s earlier assertions that bank ethics officials had been kept informed about the new post for his companion, Shaha Ali Riza. The papers also indicated that Mr. Wolfowitz was more involved in securing the new post for his companion than he has let on.

In August 2005, for instance, Mr. Wolfowitz wrote a memo to the bank’s vice president for human resources in which he virtually dictated the kind of job Ms. Riza should be given. “I now direct you to agree to a proposal which includes the following terms and conditions,” Mr. Wolfowitz wrote. “You should accept immediately her offer to be detailed to an outside institution of her choosing while retaining bank salary and benefits.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/world/13cnd-wolfowitz.html?hp

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What a slime.

[bullimiami]

21. if he were a democrat. with her background,

...She was born in Tripoli, Libya, to a Libyan father and Syrian-Saudi mother. She grew up in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom...


the repugs would be screaming bloody murder.

[Warren Stupidity]

22. So he also lied about what he did?

He engaged in a corrupt act (while on a crusade against corruption) and then lied that he had obtained board approval of his actions? He still has a job? What exactly would he have to do to get fired, call Ms. Riza 'just some hijab-wearing ho?'

[bobthedrummer]

23. FWIW, a cross-post from an interesting thread

"Elizabeth CHENEY was a 'colleague' of Wolfowitz's partner Shaha Ali Riza"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x548152#651509