Reno man who bought dolphins in Cuba under investigation

[Judi Lynn]

News 4 Local News


RENO, NV, October 20
Reno man who bought dolphins in Cuba under investigation


A federal investigation is under way into whether a Reno businessman violated a US trade embargo by purchasing six dolphins in Cuba.

Graham Simpson, who started a Caribbean company that offers the public a chance to swim with dolphins, is the target of the investigation by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Simpson admits he bought the dolphins in Cuba for about $200,000, but says he thought the purchases were legal since he was living on the island of Anguilla at the time.

Born in South Africa, Simpson has dual US and British citizenship and moved back to Reno about a year ago. (snip/...)

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1488913&nav=8faOIcfc

Isn't it grand knowing tht _Bush has so much time and so many available resources he can stick his nose into cases like this?

[Rainbowreflect]

1. So why did he buy the dolphins?

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[Judi Lynn]

2. Looks as if it's connected to his business in Antiqua

Help Stop Dolphin Capture/Swim With Program in Antigua

Please act today to stop the capture of dolphins for the establishment of a dolphinarium and swim with the dolphins program on the Caribbean island of Antigua. The government of Antigua & Barbuda is promoting the proposed dolphin prison as a way to attract tourists.

The project is backed by "Dolphin Fantaseas," a U.S. company whose head, Dr. Graham Simpson, recently filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. courts. Simpson also started another dolphin swim with program in Anguilla.

Sources say that dolphin catchers in Antigua tried to charter a local boat last weekend and had holding tanks ready to confine dolphins, but local boat companies refused to charter to them!
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http://www.idausa.org/alert/alertarchives/antigua.html

_Bush's administration is after the man, not for buying dolphins, but for buying them from Cuba. It's part of the embargo enforcement.

There are swimming with dolphins businesses in Florida.