Oil for Food (OFF) Debacle aka UNSCAM: Kojo's business partner ready to talk?

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In a development that could dramatically increase the pressure on the embattled U.N. chief, Adrian Gonzalez, the lawyer for Pierre Mouselli, the mysterious former partner of Kojo Annan, said he has been in close contact with congressional committees probing the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.

Mouselli's business partnership with the younger Annan is emerging as a major issue in the scandal because it was a flashpoint in bitter internal disputes within the Independent Inquiry Commission headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker. Those disputes led to last week's resignations of two senior investigators who protested that the probe is being too soft on Annan.

There is a growing desire among congressional Republicans not to let the panel's conclusions be the final say on Kofi Annan's role, sources say.

-- posted by Lawhawk