US/Haiti: Govt Corruption Suit Stalls for Lack of Funds
Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 26, 2006
The U.S. Justice Department is withholding agreement to share assets seized from Haitian drug traffickers to finance a lawsuit by the Haitian government charging former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with taking bribes.
The suit is based on allegations by a former executive of the telecom company IDT that before Aristide left the country in 2004, he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from IDT, which is connected to prominent U.S. Republicans.
October 26, 2006 | Posted in Corporate Abuses, Crime & Corruption, Government Abuse, Politics, Scoops, offshore | Read More »
