Wha di rahtid a happen? Aristide now?

[Assasin]

Lawyer: Haiti mum on Aristide passport request

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former lawyer for ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says the ousted leader has applied for a Haitian passport but has never heard back from his homeland's government.
The head of the Boston-based Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti says Aristide has repeatedly requested a Haitian passport.

Veronique Fleurime Jean Juste, left, and Jean Pierre hold anti-Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier and pro-Jean-Bertrand Aristide signs in the offices of the Haitian political group Veye Yo in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, on Monday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)



Veronique Fleurime Jean Juste, left, and Jean Pierre hold anti-Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier and pro-Jean-Bertrand Aristide signs in the offices of the Haitian political group Veye Yo in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, on Monday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)


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Brian Concannon said today that President Rene Preval's government "simply refuses to respond" to Aristide's requests.
Aristide's current Miami attorney Ira Kurzban says his client wants to come back to Haiti.
Aristide's office in South Africa has not responded to requests for comment.
After being ousted in 2004, Aristide was flown into exile in the Central African Republic aboard a United States plane. He then spent time in Jamaica before being granted political refuge in South Africa


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[MdmeX]

All the thief dem lining up

Poor Haiti - dat's all me can say

[Mosiah]

Aristide a tief? What makes him so? The USA govt.?

[Gamma]

ira kurzban is a TOP immigration lawyer who has for years championed the plight of haitian immigrants in the US. a man i have tremendous respect for.

[Muadib]

No, that would be other Haitians:

The investigation continues as the Haitian government carries out its own separate inquiry into the Aristide administration and foundation records, so far concluding that the president had looted government coffers, Haitian government records show. The interim government that replaced Aristide two years ago filed suit in Miami last year to recover ''tens of millions of dollars'' allegedly stolen by the former president and others from Haiti's treasury and its phone company. Neither the Haitian investigation nor the civil suit alleges drug trafficking.

The US claim he is a narco-kingpin

Authorities have gathered evidence, including testimony by cooperating defendants convicted in the case, alleging that:

• Soon after he took office in early 2001, Aristide held a meeting at his Port-au-Prince home with his presidential security chief, two government security advisors, the national police chief and a district commander to organize a scheme to shake down Colombian and Haitian drug smugglers for kickbacks for both his personal and political activities.

• Drug traffickers bribed Aristide to turn a blind eye to shipments of Colombian cocaine through Haiti, directly paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash during regular visits to his home.

• Convicted drug kingpin Beaudouin ''Jacques'' Ketant personally delivered $500,000 a month in a suitcase to Aristide's home, he told authorities. He said the suitcase had a combination lock set to 7-7-7 at Aristide's request because that was his favorite number.

• Traffickers gave Aristide $200,000 to buy a helicopter in 2002, but the president pocketed the money and instead used government funds to rent a helicopter from Miami-based Biscayne Helicopters. Those same traffickers also bought a $75,000 ambulance in Miami that was shipped to Haiti for the president's private charitable Aristide Foundation.

• Traffickers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on carnival festivities in February 2002 that were arranged by the Aristide government. They also paid for some of Aristide's July birthday celebrations, his Lavalas Family Party and his foundation.

• At Aristide's direction, some of the traffickers' bribes helped buy weapons smuggled into Haiti to equip national police officers as well as pro-Aristide street gangs that harassed his opponents during his second term as president, between 2001 and 2004, according to former Haitian law enforcement officials and drug traffickers who are cooperating with U.S. investigators.