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Published: Wednesday | February 9, 2011 0 Comments
Leys contradicts Lightbourne's Manatt claims
SOLICITOR GENERAL Douglas Leys has suggested that Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne misled Parliament when she attempted to defend her role in the Manatt-Dudus affair during a censure motion in the Senate last year.
Leys, under cross-examination from People's National Party (PNP) attorney K.D. Knight, told the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry that aspects of a statement made to the Senate by Lightbourne last July were untrue.
"I have given you the facts, Sir," Leys told Knight, who had asked him about contrary claims made by Lightboune when she addressed the Senate.
Lightbourne had claimed, among other things, that she only became aware of representatives of United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attending a December 2009 meeting at the US State Department, where the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was discussed, after their presence was raised in the House of Representatives by Opposition Member of Parliament Dr Peter Phillips.
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Published: Wednesday | February 9, 2011 0 Comments
Leys contradicts Lightbourne's Manatt claims
SOLICITOR GENERAL Douglas Leys has suggested that Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne misled Parliament when she attempted to defend her role in the Manatt-Dudus affair during a censure motion in the Senate last year.
Leys, under cross-examination from People's National Party (PNP) attorney K.D. Knight, told the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry that aspects of a statement made to the Senate by Lightbourne last July were untrue.
"I have given you the facts, Sir," Leys told Knight, who had asked him about contrary claims made by Lightboune when she addressed the Senate.
Lightbourne had claimed, among other things, that she only became aware of representatives of United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attending a December 2009 meeting at the US State Department, where the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was discussed, after their presence was raised in the House of Representatives by Opposition Member of Parliament Dr Peter Phillips.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead1.html
