At large war criminal Tony Blair to take job with JP Morgan, a bank profiting from the Iraq War
Tony Blair has taken a lucrative job with a U.S. bank which is profiting from the Iraq war.
JPMorgan is expected to pay him £1million a year as a part-time adviser.
It is the first of a series of posts that could see the former prime minister rake in a staggering £40million.
The move brought fierce criticism last night. Reg Keys, whose soldier son Tom was killed in Iraq in 2003, said it was "almost akin to taking blood money".
He added: "If he had a conscience or any sensitivity, he would not have taken this job".
JPMorgan is heading a consortium set to make billions as Iraq's economy recovers from the war spearheaded by Mr Blair and U.S. President George Bush.
It was chosen to run the new Trade Bank of Iraq, which has raised billions in trade guarantees by mortgaging future oil production and will make huge profits from the deals.
In 2006, during a taxpayer-funded trip to California, Mr Blair attended a glitzy cocktail party hosted by Charlotte Schultz, whose husband George is chairman of JPMorgan's international advisory council.
Mr Blair, 54, who said he wanted his career after No.10 to be of "real purpose" rather than "just about doing a job", is already reported to be earning hundreds of thousands a month as an after-dinner speaker.
Other sources of income include a £5million deal to write his memoirs and a prime ministerial pension of £64,000 a year.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is spearheading a campaign to have him installed as the first president of the EU - a post expected to be worth at least £200,000 a year.
Source: Daily Mail
Who says crime doesn't pay? "Phony Tony" can use some of that ill-begotten loot to wash off the blood stains from his grubby paws.
How in the hell can these kind of people sleep at night?
..see how he refers to being the PM of the UK during wartime as having 'no purpose' and boring!
..yikes! if killing millions is BORiNG, howabout a conflict_of_interest between being the Middle East 'Special' Piece_Envoy and part of the JZ Mortgang at the same time!
Geee, i wonder why it's so 'special'?
even the reaper must draw the cloak over his skull now and again, hee hee hee!