Bush campaign contributions placed in wrong shipment

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Some of the Bush family oil sheik friends were trying to help him with his campaign and they stuck their contributions in the wrong crate...

$1 Million Cash in Food Shipment

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Dubai food inspector had a shock when he checked a shipment of imported watermelons and found bundles of cash worth nearly $1 million hidden among them, a local newspaper reported Monday.

The English-language Gulf News quoted the municipal food inspector as saying he had found two million Egyptian pounds ($567,000) in cash in a box hidden among watermelon crates imported from Egypt.

Further searches of the fruit and vegetable shipment turned up one million Saudi riyals ($266,000) and 50,000 Kuwaiti dinars ($163,000) in cash.

Gulf News said customs officials were trying to find out why the cash was brought into the UAE (United Arab Emirates) hidden in a food consignment.

-- Hawk (flyin@hi.again), July 04, 2000

Answers

Actually it says right in the story that it was destined to pay for a ROOM RESERVATION IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM.

-- Hawk is a Bird Brain (Hawk@BirdBrain.org), July 05, 2000.

Hawk,

Obviously it wasn't destined for the Gore campaign, as none of it was in Chinese yuan.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), July 05, 2000.

Who knows, maybe the Chinese had the money laundered.

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), July 05, 2000.

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