If I understand this report in Le Monde correctly, it seems Gaddafi and favorite son, Saif Al-Islam, got suckered by "the three tenors," Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone), Frank Carlucci (Carlyle) and Michael Sherwood (Goldman Sachs).
Frank C. Carlucci, of course, is one of our former Secretaries of Defense, who recently came out of retirement.