Discussion: Exxon Subsidiary Did Business With Iran, Syria Under Rex Tillerson's Leadership

While there apparently hasn’t been a run on ballgowns in DC, I have it on good authority there is a shortage of tap shoes.

Tippetty-tippetty-tappety…

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Told someone that Tillerson is going to lie at his upcoming hearing. Now I thought that the subject was going to be about Russia, but little did i know…

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Richard Gutman, who was ExxonMobil’s assistant general counsel at the time, responded that Infineum’s European affiliates operated “under a policy and procedure consistent with U.S. legal requirements and no United States person is involved in those business transactions.”

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According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings from 2006 presented to the publication by the Democratic research group American Bridge, Infineum had $53.2 million in sales to Iran, $1.1 million to Syria and $600,000 to Sudan from 2003 through 2005.

“These are all legal activities complying with the sanctions at the time," Alan Jeffers, media manager at ExxonMobil, told the newspaper. “We didn’t feel they were material because of the size of the transactions.”

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Consorting with Iran? Well, I’ll bet he’s lost Tom Cotton’s vote /s.

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Excrement artist KATSU should be considered for a range of Trump administration official portraiture…

Democratic Senators need to do everything they can to stonewall the hearings of Trump’s appointees, to allow as much dirt as possible to come out before any vote.

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This would have been considered treasonous if Obama had nominated him…
But in the new regime, it’s good bidness practice…

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Technically, under GAAP, the definition of “materiality” relates to the size of a transaction relative to total revenue for reporting purposes. In Exxonworld, fifty million dollars is money you can find under seat cushions.

Of course, if an otherwise immaterial transaction potentially subjects a company to criminal sanctions, you’re still supposed to report it on your SEC filings.

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There was a reason Obama’s administration was the only one in decades which had no scandals, and that was because he didn’t nominate swamp dwelling billionaires who only intended to get rich when they reached Washington. If orange’s picks are of any use to the republic, it would be an unintended strictly accidental outcome.

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That’s only if you’re black and a Democrat.

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Hey man, money feels good in my pocket no matter how much blood it has on it!

Exxon has a foreign policy(s) that only by mistake are anywhere near the U.S.'s.

See Chad, Iran, and others.

Skirt the law. Get a six-figure job.