Showing articles 1 - 20 of 233 (sorted by date).
| 1 |  | 2011-08-05: Two More Telecom Execs Guilty of Bribing Haitian Officials by Department of Justice, courtesy of corruption investigator Lucy Komisar |  |
| Convicted by a federal jury on all counts for their roles in a scheme to pay bribes to Haitian government officials at Teleco during Aristide presidency in return for sweetheart contracts. | Rating: 5 |
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| 2 | | 2011-07-23: More U.S. Indictments of Aristide-Era Teleco Officials by U.S. District Court in Miami, by courtesy of corruption investigator Lucy Komisar | |
| Federal grand jury finds probable cause that more Teleco officials took bribes in return for steering business to U.S.-based telecoms. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 | | 2010-06-02: Alleged Aristide Accomplice in Teleco Looting Gets Four Years by Department of Justice | |
| Robert Antoine, director of int'l relations at Teleco 2001-2003, admitted to taking bribes from 3 U.S. telecoms to defraud Teleco. Haitian government filed suit in 2005 alleging Aristide involvement in scheme. | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 |  | 2010-03-23: Government Corruption Will Block Reconstruction by James Morrell, in Associated Press | |
| James Morrell, director of the Washington-based Haiti Democracy Project, said government corruption would block any serious effort to develop the country. "They need to go back to Obama and say, 'Let's not put all our eggs in one basket.'" | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 | | 2009-12-21: U.S. Official Connivance in Looting Haiti by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal | |
| Recent indictments put the spotlight back on the collusion of high U.S. officials in the despoliation of Haiti via rakeoff of telephone revenue. The author names Democrats but also cites IDT, which sported a roster of top Republicans. | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 | | 2009-12-21: Affaire Haitienne Inachevée by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal |  |
| Traduction de Jean Erich René. English original above.
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| 7 |  | 2009-12-21: Nineteenth Anniversary of Aristide's Corruption and Misrule by Stanley Lucas | |
| His two priorities in power, until he departed with $350 million, were to enrich himself and monopolize the power. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 | | 2009-12-15: Second Former Official Accused of Looting Teleco Appears in Court by Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald | |
| A former Haitian government official charged in a telecom bribery scheme involving Haiti's state-owned telecommunications company must come up with $100,000 in bail. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 | | 2009-12-11: Will Bribery Probe Hit IDT? by Nathan Vardi, Forbes.com | |
| The U.S. is prosecuting a Haitian telephone official who was found by the Haitian government to have defrauded Haiti by arranging sweetheart contract for U.S. telecom IDT in return for deposits in Aristide's offshore bank account. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 | | 2009-12-08: Major Figure in Alleged Aristide Corruption Scheme Extradited by Radio Kiskeya | |
| Suspected key intermediary in a scheme described in court papers as diverting telephone revenues due Haiti into Aristide's private bank accounts. Suspect arrested in Haiti and flown to U.S. | Rating: 5 |
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| 11 | | 2009-12-08: Indictments in Alleged Aristide Corruption Case by Department of Justice | |
| Alleged roles in a foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering scheme. Money due the national telephone company instead allegedly siphoned off into Aristide bank account. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2009-12-07: I Hate Being on the Receiving End! by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, quoted in Le Matin | |
| The former president who pressured the electoral commission to discard opposition votes in 2000 now complains when Préval plays the same tricks on his party. | Rating: 1 |
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| 13 | | 2009-03-30: French Proposal Would Crack Down on Money-Laundering Site Linked to Aristide by Lucy Komisar, Interpress Service | |
| The type of Turks and Caicos shell company which court documents found IDT Communications and Aristide using to embezzle state income would come under greater scrutiny. | Rating: 3 |
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| 14 | | 2009-03-13: Aristide Still Living Large in South Africa by South Africa Sunday Times | |
| He gets a South African cabinet minister's salary, more than $300,000 a year. | Rating: 3 |
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| 15 | | 2008-12-02: Exhumé, Back as Minister of Justice: Can He Exhume the Aristide-Embezzlement File that Préval Dropped So Quickly? by Nancy Roc, in Le Matin | |
| Last summer Lucy Komisar reported the role of Aristide and top Republicans in the looting of Teleco. The FCC levied a $1.3 million fine and a CEO resigned. But in Haiti, the case to recover the stolen funds remains stagnant. | Rating: 5 |
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| 16 | | 2008-10-09: Republican Congressman Who Oversaw Alleged Aristide Kickbacks Is Forced Out of IDT by Lucy Komisar | |
| Former GOP congressman Courter had to resign last July as McCain co-chair when this author revealed a $1.3 million FCC fine against his firm, IDT. Now he is on his way out of IDT also. The firm itself may be delisted from the New York stock exchange. | Rating: 5 |
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| 17 |  | 2008-08-06: Lucy Komisar Appeared on Radio Tele Providence by webmaster | |
| Comment le peuple haitien va faire pour récuper cet argent volé, ou détourné dans cette affaire? August 6, 2008. | Rating: 5 |
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| 18 |  | 2008-08-06: Not Letting the Facts Get in the Way by Le Matin | |
| The Lavalas Party in Haiti said that Lucy Komisar purposely wrote her article about Aristide's corruption to spoil the good publicity Lavalas got from its demonstration on July 15. Komisar wrote on July 11. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 | | 2008-08-04: Lucy Komisar on Radio in Philadelphia by webmaster | |
| Lundi 4 août 2008 à 10 : 05 pm
Radio Vision Céleste, à l’émission Tribune Sans Frontière. Scandale de corruption impliquant Jean-Bertrand Aristide, le politicien américain James Courter, la Téléco et l'IDT. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 | | 2008-08-04: Transparency International in Haiti Calls for Recovery of Stolen Funds by Radio Métropole | |
| "Le gouvernement doit porter plainte en Haïti". Aux Etats-Unis des sanctions sont appliquées contre des personnes impliquées dans le détournement des fonds de la Téléco alors qu’en Haïti on assiste à une immobilisme des autorités.
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