Harvard professors got $250,000 a month from Gaddafi. The company they founded was Monitor Group who worked to clean up Gaddafi's image. Their help included, aside from arranging ego visits to Gaddafi by academics who then wrote glowingly of the Libyan dictator, a proposal for a book for the dictator to espouse his views, and helping his son Said with his doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics.
In response to the revelations, Sir Howard Davies resigned yesterday as a director at the London School of Economics after it was revealed that the school got £1.5m for their Global Governance Unit the donation came through Said's foundation after he received a doctorate. (The Monitor Group admit they "contributed" to the thesis. Then LSE got a £2.2 million deal to train Libyan officials. Ghaddafi spoke at the London School of Economics last December. (You wonder if it was anything like this rant (video) to the United Nations.)
The regrets keep pouring in now that they are caught out. Billionaire US financier George Soros on Friday apologized for having advised the LSE to take Libyan money, according to the Guardian. Meanwhile, a top judge in the U.K. has been tasked with investigating the ties.
THE LATEST: The latest revelation is the involvement of Tony Blair and Peter Sutherland, the Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) in dirty deals with Gaddafi. Mr Sutherland, a former Irish politician and chairman of Goldman Sachs International, is presently Chairman of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics. Sutherland and Blair both worked with Gaddafi to release the Lockerbie bomber. Another member of the London School of Economics council is Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the leftwing human rights pressure group.
The Daily Mail (London) offerred a guide to the London School of Useful Idiots: How a cadre of Blair cronies, ex-MI6 chiefs and top dons at a top university supported Gaddafi for his millions
Some of those millions have been found on a ship intercepted in British waters. The ship attempted to carry £100 million in cash to Colonel Gaddafi's regime but could not dock in Tripoli. An attempt by Gaddafi's allies to export £900million worth of notes was foiled by the Treasury last week.
At Wikipedia the entry is called "Libya Gate."
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