Staffer fired over oil-for-food scandal
Thursday, June 2, 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired a staffer for manipulating contracts under the Iraq oil-for-food program, the first dismissal to result from a U.N.-backed probe of the $64 billion humanitarian operation, a spokesman announced Wednesday.
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