Things are looking increasingly bleak for Muammar Gaddafi, as the West and its allies continue to pressure those in his inner circle to abandon him. But Gaddafi isn’t the only uncomfortable one, as revelations continue to emerge about the massive, immoral suck-up western companies undertook during the dictator’s brief period of acceptability.

After Gaddafi agreed to give up his pursuit of nuclear weapons in 2003, a long list of powerful companies with a deep moral commitment to increased profit beat a path to Gaddafi’s tent, hoping to cash in on everything from the country’s oil to its massive sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority, which Gaddafi controlled. Now details of their coddling of the dictator are slowly dribbling out.