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>> bill: factor follow-up segment tonight, corporate corruption. a couple of weeks ago the securities and exchange commission fined the general electric corporation nearly $24 million for violating the foreign corrupt practices act. the story got a little attention but its big and involves is a saddams oil for food program. g.m.s ceo jeffrey immelt finds himself in unpleasant situation. tom burrelli and dr. gardner, a fellow at the heritage foundation. both conservative groups. okay now. begin w...

Services. bill: you know -- finish your thoughts, sorry to interrupt, go on. >> no, but what im saying is that we know here again theyre coming back to the taxpayer for all of this money. they will not cut the food stamp program, they will come back and say well, we have to replace this, this is a continuation of out of control washington spending, it is wasteful. we are looking at future generations and saying we are spending away your opportunity and your job, we are looking at taxpayers and s...

Properly account for what happened to that money. revenue from iraqi oil, frozen iraqi assets and leftover funds from the united nations oil for food program, money set aside to develop and rebuild a roiraq. more than $9 billion went to the department of defense to pay for reconstruction contracts in iraq. a new audit finds the pentagon is having trouble accounting for most of it. $8.7 billion of that money. of particular concern to the inspector generals office in charge of overseeing reconstru...

Cnns arwa damon live in baghdad. how did they lose the money? >> reporter: i think thats the question that everyone wants to try to find the answer for. now, according to this roar, $9.1 billion was placed in this fund. this is actually eye jake money. oil revenue, surplus leftover from the oil for food program. now, this fund was initially created by the u.s. in 2003. it managed it with the okay of the u.n. but then in 2004, it handed it over to the iraqi interim government. at this stage, the ...

Horton group. >> lean box zeroed in on hr managers like michelle as their primary customers. >> we really focus on the office manager, that hr manager, that now has been given this pretty broad responsibility of developing a food program. and our product is very focused on how do we make that persons life easier. >> with the well-defined customer base and a protoetype partnership with a well-established local food service, it now looks like lean box has identified the beginnings of the national ...

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Billion or $3 billion is no biggie they need to take a look at how many things republicans have said this year we must cut. we can no longer afford. things that do not cost taxpayers nearly as much as that measly $2 billion or $3 billion on subsidizing corporate jets. like, for example, the $868 million that proposed cutting from wick. the food program for women, infants and children. or the $51 million they proposed cutg from the national park service or the $899 million from energy efficiency ...