(WAPO) CT US Attorneys target corruption everywhere except the main source of all of it- Corrupticut.

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Subject: CT US Attorneys target corruption everywhere except the main
source of all of it- Corrupticut.

Date: Jan 20, 2008 7:20 AM

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CT US Attorneys target corruption everywhere except the main source of
it- Corrupticut:

http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
'The Bush Family Riggs Bank, the insurance companies, the Yalie Plum
Island
bioweaponeers, Yale Psychiatry's obsession with sex over facts, the
Yale Psych-Sociology
(DCF) Department writing the protocol where you have to turn over your
kids if you
don't agree with the philosophy that all female children should become
sluts,
Yale's providing the likes of Paul Wolfowitz an opportunity to train
Lewis Libby,
the ex-Corrupticut residents who now head the IASPS.org in Israel, CT
DCF providing
the Yale Psych whores the children's bodies to experiment upon, yet we
hear
a completely independent revelation that psychotropics are 40-50%
effective
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120051950205895415.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
(meaning, if these "drugs" are no better than a coin toss, they
actually
don't meet the definition of a pharmaceutical, but the Hartford
Courant can't
wrap their brains around this), and the like...

US Attorney Kevin O'Connor refused to do his job prosecuting the Lyme
crimes,
and now the CT Attorney General has to do it for him. The criminals
involve DHHS,
NIH, and CDC staff members. In other words, it can only be charged by
the DOJ.

This is *international* corporate crime, since the reach of the entity
founded by
Kaiser at New York Medical College, the www.ALDF.com, even includes a
branch in
Europe called the EUCALB:
http://meduni09.edis.at/eucalb/cms/index.php?lang=en

It's a front. And the backers are the likes of Mortimer Zuckerman,
Kaiser,
SmithKline, Hank Greenberg, Anthony Walton, and international spy firm
named the
otaotr.com. It includes the Mayo Clinic and Robert Woods Johnson,
self-alleged
non-profits.

They want to own diseases, like Monsanto wants to own food:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7849


It's pretty disgusting that Corrupticut would dare to offer to
investigate corruption
at the UN. Perhaps the best defense is a good offense. We can
distract from oh,
say, staged events like 911, which was intended to land Exxon Mobile
and Halliburton
in Iraq and Afghanistan due to the "sea of oil" under Iraq and the
Caspian
pipelines.

US Corporations owning all the world's oil, food, and diseases.


Well, whaddya gonna do. Lawyers are stupid because otherwise they'd
be scientists
or engineers. Lawyers are paranoid parasites. They don't actually
*do* anything.
Think about it: How could you spend your entire life *watching* what
other people
do.

One has to ask, "Okay, What is the source of all lawyers' *lack* of
creative
talents?" Such dopes would not have the insight to foresee the
outcomes of
this chronic harassment of the victims of US international corporate
crime.


http://www.entropylaw.com/
We are all under those laws, actually. But try to explain it to a
lawyer and see
if they don't try to rip your lungs out before you draw your second
breath.
They *all* do it. They *ALL* shut you down before you can finish
speaking your
first sentence, when you try to explain reality. I don't know whether
they
learn this in law school or the behavior comes naturally to them.



Kathleen M. Dickson
===================

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011902155_pf.html
washingtonpost.com

Ex-Prosecutor Targets Corruption at U.N.
He Leads Agency's Task Force in Effort to Halt Combat Bribery, Bid
Rigging

By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 20, 2008; A08

UNITED NATIONS -- Robert M. Appleton, a senior U.N. crime fighter, has
pursued corruption
from New Delhi to Manhattan's swank W Hotel, where two U.N. officials
wound
down a $6,000 night of drinking, strip clubs and prostitutes, courtesy
of a corrupt
executive seeking to do business with the United Nations.

"Quite frankly, it's just fun work," the former Connecticut federal
prosecutor told reporters at a recent news conference. As head of the
two-year-old
U.N. Procurement Task Force, Appleton oversees a team of as many as 19
international
investigators, who have identified more than $610 million in tainted
contracts and
$25 million in misappropriated funds.

The alleged crimes include bid rigging of multimillion-dollar
contracts for fuel,
food and helicopters; petty bribery; and millions in overcharges for
such things
as office curtains in Kenya and Lipton tea in Sudan. "Corruption is
not unique
to the United Nations," he said in an interview. "But the U.N. is in
some
sense unique because of its geographical breadth. It's at risk for a
lot of
reasons."

Appleton's team has employed white-collar anti-fraud tactics in an
organization
that has traditionally relied on former police investigators to
conduct complex
financial corruption probes. His investigations have resulted in an
unprecedented
number of misconduct findings against 17 U.N. staff members, and have
led to the
conviction of a procurement officer who steered more than $100 million
in contracts
to a state-owned Indian company.

"They are like a bulldog," said Andrew Toh, a senior U.N. procurement
official from Singapore who is the target of an ongoing probe into
influence peddling.
Toh has been charged with misconduct for not cooperating fully with
the investigators
and not fully disclosing his financial records, but the task force has
so far not
proved allegations that he illegally steered contracts to companies.

The task force has been embraced by the U.N.'s top investigator, Inga-
Britt
Ahlenius of Sweden, and Secretary General Ban Ki- moon. They have
pressed for the
team -- which operates under a mandate that expires at the end of the
year -- to
become a permanent part of the U.N. investigations team. But Appleton
and Ahlenius
have clashed with other senior U.N. officials who have been criticized
in task force
reports, and with governments whose nationals his team has targeted.

One Singaporean diplomat likened Appleton's work to that of the
Spanish Inquisition,
saying it trampled Toh's due process. Singapore joined other
developing countries
in securing agreement to launch an independent inquiry into the
practices in Appleton's
office. "Why not have an investigation into the behavior of the
investigators?"
Kevin Cheok, Singapore's deputy U.N. ambassador, said last month.

Appleton, 42, served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Connecticut for
13 years.
He has put in jail Jose Stroh, a money launderer for the Cali drug
cartel; prosecuted
international arms traffickers for selling weapons to Pakistan and
Iran; and secured
convictions for more than 150 gang members for murder, drug
trafficking and racketeering.

Appleton was hired in 2005 as legal counsel to former Federal Reserve
chairman Paul
A. Volcker, who was investigating the United Nations' $64 billion oil-
for-food
program in Iraq. Appleton led the team's probes into procurement
fraud, focusing
on allegations against former secretary general Kofi Annan and his son
Kojo.

Appleton hesitated about joining Volcker's commission, he recalled.
"How
were we going to do this job without compulsory process, without the
ability to
subpoena documents and exercise a search warrant?" he asked. But he
said U.N.
inspectors have greater freedom to conduct investigations on foreign
soil than do
U.S. prosecutors.

Appleton was chosen the task force's deputy after it was established
in January
2006, and he assumed command of the team last April. In the spring of
2006, Appleton
traveled to New Delhi while investigating Nishan Kohli, the executive
who secured
more than $100 million in contracts for an Indian state
telecommunications company
by lavishing U.N. officials with gifts. The two U.N. officials he
entertained at
the W Hotel in 2002 were charged with misconduct and fired.

In his first year on the job, Appleton stumbled into a power struggle
between the
secretary general's office, which created the task force, and the U.N.
General
Assembly, which pays for it. A key bloc of developing nations -- the
Group of 77
-- has grudgingly extended the task force's mandate another year.

Imtiaz Hussain, a Pakistani diplomat, said the developing world's
problem with
Appleton is not personal. Many resent that the United Nations can find
funds for
initiatives pushed by wealthy countries but not for anti-poverty
projects favored
by poor nations, he said. They also object to the task force's being
established
without the General Assembly's blessing.

"He appears to be professionally quite competent," Hussain said. "At
the same time, we also try to safeguard our prerogatives."

One senior U.N. official suggested that the dispute is also about
money.

"Member states have always looked to the United Nations as one big
dollar sign,"
said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of
the diplomatic
sensitivities involved. "Anything that limits their access to the
trough or
makes them behave better when they get to the trough is going to get
them angry."

Others contend that while Appleton's team has uncovered corruption, it
has also
tarnished the reputation of some honest officials who simply bent U.N.
rules to
quickly launch multibillion-dollar missions.

"There is some mitigation that needs to be taken into account," one
senior
U.N. peacekeeping official said. "It's not as if these were not good
people."

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