Wolfowitz & The World Bank
By Rich Galen
Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank,is in considerable hot water over the fact that he has a Significant Other who worked for the World Bank before he got there but then got a hefty salary increase, a promotion, and a move over to the State Department -- seconded from the World Bank. There have been howls of outrage that Wolfowitz gave his honey a huge salary bump and a cushy job while people in Africa are starving. Oops. It seems that Dr. Wolfowitz actually played by the rules -- even calling the potential conflict of interest to the attention of the bank's ethics committee...