Duvalier Advised by Ex-Congressman Barr as He Seeks Swiss Funds

[tosh]

Source: Bloomberg

By Blake Schmidt

Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bob Barr, a former U.S. congressman, is advising Jean-Claude Duvalier as the Haitian ex-dictator seeks to unlock frozen funds left in Swiss banks after he fled to Paris exile amid a 1986 rebellion.

Duvalier “is very interested in trying to get those funds freed up, not for himself, but so they can be used to help the situation in Haiti,” Barr said by phone from Port-au-Prince yesterday. Barr, 62, was a Republican representative from Georgia in 1995-2003 and ran for president in 2008 on the Libertarian Party ticket.

Barr accompanied Duvalier Jan. 21 as the former dictator made his first public comments since his Jan. 16 return to his homeland from a 25-year exile. Also accompanying Duvalier were two other American lawyers, Ed Marger of Jasper, Georgia, and Mike Puglise of Snellville, Georgia, according to a statement issued by Barr’s office.

The 59-year-old Duvalier, also known as “Baby Doc,” apologized to victims of abuses during his government, vowed to help the quake-ravaged nation rebuild and said he expected to face “persecution” upon his return. Haitian authorities opened a corruption case against him two days after his return.



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[tosh]

1. A band of criminals.

[Wilms]

2. I guess Lanny Davis is too busy to handle it. n/t

[molly77]

13. wilms

That is so funny. Hillary should throw her weight behind somebody she can understand and trust.

[DissedByBush]

3. Barr makes my skin crawl

This is the guy who wanted to ban the practice of non-Christian religion on military bases.

[tosh]

4. Indeed. He is creepy beyond words.

I doubt these stated motives and wish this group would stay far, far away from Haiti and her difficulties.

Baby Doc should not be involved in the return of these funds to Haiti.

[Heywood J]

5. Has he run out of whipped cream to lick off strippers

or abortions to quietly shell out for, while playing the victim? Bob hasn't been relevant since the 1990s.

[stevedeshazer]

6. That is disgusting. Barr is a traitor.

Anything for a buck. I wonder what his cut is?

[sarcasmo]

9. 20% like a Hollywood agent.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Then why doesn't Duvalier sign over the assets to the sovereign nation of Haiti?

Completely give up his rights to the money.

[EFerrari]

8. He is trying to get the funds into US hands, not into the hands of the Haitian government.

Which suggests (to me anyway) he's made a deal with the State Department.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=405&topic_id=47390&mesg_id=47421

[molly77]

14. EFerrari

I'll bet you are right. And as a reward, he gets to be president for life. Democracy that hillary can understand.

[EFerrari]

18. Or, he'll get a kickback and no prosecution. He was running out of money. n /t

[Taverner]

10. OK - then seize it from that account, and use it for such

And in the meantime, lockup that Baby Doc bastard and throw away the key.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. "not for himself, but so they can be used to help the situation in Haiti,”

awwww go ahead, pull the other one.

[Sonoman]

15. That was my response, as well.

I'll bet that was said with a straight face, even.

Sonoman

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. This story has me wondering what it will take, what will be the final straw

that propels enough people to put their foot down and seriously REACT against the crooks and thieves and liars
who are acting out with increased impunity.
Will it be a big thing, I wonder?
Something small, perhaps, that collapses the "consumers" teetering crumbling facade of apparent blindness and/or numbness to the new Orwellian life we live in.

Or maybe more and more of us are quietly dropping out and finding ways to "go around" the tightening noose of
Corporate/government control.

I dunno. It will be interesting.

[pam4water]

12. Bob Barr has no shame.

[Odin2005]

17. I knew it, the US is backing that fucker.

[freshwest]

19. Hum, what does Sister Sarah have to say? Did she and Pat Robertson decide this was the way to go?

:puke: