Mu' Money, Mu' Problems: Public Figures Who Accepted Cash from Gaddafi

March 8, 2011 • 11:30 am PST
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Muammar Gaddafi has been ruling Libya with an iron fist since his military coup in 1969. During that time, he's been a dictator's dictator, executing dissidents, assassinating political opponents, supporting terrorist groups, and keeping the press muzzled. He once called HIV "a peaceful virus." He's bad.

But he's got money. Gaddafi has used his power to amass a vast fortune from oil-rich Libya. Ibrahim Warde, an adjunct professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, estimates that Gaddafi controls $150 billion.

And he's not the only one who likes money. A handful of otherwise respectable public figures have helped the dictator out in one way or another for a cut of the action. Here are a few of them.

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