Former Senator Robert Torricelli linked to oil-for-food claims

The Financial Times reports:

The US Senate is looking into allegations that a former US senator urged Baghdad to give a US company lucrative contracts under the much-criticised United Nations oil-for-food programme.

This is the first time that a leading US lawmaker has been linked to the controversial UN programme, whose shortcomings have been an important element of the Bush administration's critique of the UN.

I'm sure the Democrats are happy that Torricelli is no longer in the Senate.