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Oil profits alleged in secret deal linked to governors kin
Cox Newspapers reports a longtime ally of Senator Sparkman and brother of Governor Carey profited in a secret oil deal during the Arab embargo. Sparkman allegedly pressured the Commerce Department to approve licenses allowing Bart Chamberlain to sell cheap U S crude at inflated prices to Edward M. Carey’s Bahamas refinery, under federal price controls.
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Washington
Cox
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Hugh Carey
New York
Sparkman
Carey
Commerce Department
Federal Energy Office
FEO
Dispatch
Jean Heller
Office of Export Administration
Bart Chamberlain
Bahamas
Edward M. Carey
United States
Chamberlain
Edvidhp Carey
Citronelle-Mobile Gathering Corporation of
Mobile
Ala
Federal Energy Administration
FEC
The
Energy Agency
Secretary of Commerce
Frederick Dent
Commerce
Senate Banking Committee
House
Ways and Means
Bauer H. Meyer
Carey Brothers
Bahhamas Oil Refining Co
New England Petroleum Co
Brooklyn
Carey Company
Standard Oil
Department