Turns out the blow hard Islamist apologist was indeed guilty of taking oil for food through his phony charity. Cash meant for needy children, by the way. In typical Brit fashion his punishment for what amounts to treason is a month long suspension and some arched eyebrows. From The Daily Mail:
MP George Galloway is set to be suspended from Parliament over his links to a charity bankrolled by illicit deals involving Saddam Hussein’s regime.
He will be barred from the Commons for one month by Parliament’s standards watchdog for failing properly to declare his connections with the Mariam Appeal, it was reported.
Mr Galloway, who became an MP for his own Respect party after being expelled from Labour, may also be asked to apologise for his behaviour by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Philip Mawer.
Last month a damning report by the Charity Commission concluded that the Mariam Appeal, established by Mr Galloway in 1998 to deliver medical aid to Iraq and arrange treatment outside Iraq for sick Iraqi children, took ‘significant’ amounts of money improperly from Iraq.
It said Mr Galloway, a trustee, may have known the appeal – which campaigned against sanctions on Iraq – received £230,000 of aid money that had been diverted from the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
Disgusting. h/t Hot Air