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Paul Golden: Tillerson’s Exxon does business with dictators

A subject not talked about regarding soon to be Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was his agreement with two other oil companies to use money from recently discovered oil in 2006 for a pipeline. The oil profit was to go toward the poor people for education, hospitals, etc. The two other signatories pulled out in 2011 when the money was all going to the dictator to build up his army. Exxon signed on to stay.

Paul Golden, Modesto

This story was originally published December 15, 2016 at 6:17 PM with the headline "Paul Golden: Tillerson’s Exxon does business with dictators."

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