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Why did Rockefeller's granddaughter quit oil-for-food panel?

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
Wednesday, april 27, 2005

When David Rockefeller's granddaughter, Miranda Duncan stepped down from Paul Volcker's independent inquiry into the UN oil-for-food program it wasn't, as the mainline media hinted, because the inquiry was giving an easy ride to Secretary-General Kofi annan.

Investigators Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan tendered their resignations to Volcker's panel at the same time that allegations in oil-for-food were being ascribed to Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong, through his admitted association to media dubbed "Koreagate man", Tongsun Park.

according to the official UN read on the matter, Parton and Duncan resigned after making what was described as an unspecified "personal decision".

another member of the Volcker panel, Richard Goldstone, discounted a media report that Parton and Duncan resigned to protest conclusions the panel reached about UN Secretary-General Kofi annan.

Gladstone told CNN that was not his understanding, and that Parton and Duncan had already been set to leave after having completed their work. He said their departure would not affect the investigation in any way.

Parton and Duncan had worked on the investigation into annan's son, Kojo. He was denounced in the latest Volcker report for misleading investigators and his own father about his ties to the program.

The Volcker panel, due to table its third report sometime this summer, concluded that annan's management was inadequate to avoid charges of conflict of interest, but he was not accused of any corruption.

Last January, canadafreepress.com revealed that Duncan was David Rockefeller's granddaughter in a series of stories about Paul Volcker's potential conflicts of interests as head honcho of the "independent" inquiry into the oil-for food program.

Duncan was on the Volcker panel payroll as an attorney, and of course it was the Rockefeller family's money that built UN Manhattan headquarters on the site of a former animal slaughterhouse.

Noting that Volcker had been handpicked for the panel by annan, CFP reported that Volcker had held a seat on Power Corporation's international board, and that he is a member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

The Trilateral Commission is a super-elite cabal of some 300 powerbrokers with the proverbial finger in every pie that does not publish its membership on the Internet.

With oil-for-food allegations against Strong and Park still to be investigated and another report yet to be tabled by Volcker, the UN conclusion that Parton and Duncan departed because their work had been completed questions.

Did Duncan tender her resignation to the oil-for-food panel to quell conflict of interest allegations against her former boss Paul Volcker?

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    Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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