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| 1 |  | 2010-08-27: Haiti Government Blocking Relief Supplies by E. Thomas Johnson, L.A. Times |  |
| Reposted from June 2010: Forty-five relief vehicles held up for weeks at border by a Haitian government practicing its classic pattern of corruption, inefficiency and delay that holds the country hostage. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2010-08-08: $hady Rapper’s Prez Bid Plagued by Lies, Liens and Sean Penn by New York Post | |
| Such blatant misappropriation of funds may make him “quite qualified to be president of Haiti, given who else has been president of Haiti,” quipped Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy. | Rating: 3 |
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| 3 |  | 2010-08-08: Wyclef Jean Said to Owe IRS $2.1 Million, Jewelry Store $320,000 by The Smoking Gun, Turner Sports and Entertainment | |
| Latest alleged improprieties coming on those already reported at his Yele Haiti foundation, including allegations that it paid Jean himself to perform at fundraising events and paid a station he co-owns for advertising time. | Rating: 3 |
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| 4 |  | 2010-08-08: Serious Doubts Surfacing About Wyclef Jean Candidacy by Le Monde |  |
| Serious questions raised about his residency and suspicions of diverting to personal use funds collected by his charity for Haiti earthquake victims. | Rating: 3 |
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| 5 | | 2010-06-27: Government Corruption Holding the Country Hostage by E. Thomas Johnson, in Los Angeles Times | |
| Government has lapsed into the classic pattern of corruption, inefficiency and delay. Relief equipment piling up at DR border. Growing restrictions on projects for affected families. | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 |  | 2010-06-14: International Community Lacks Confidence in Préval by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Hasn't named its members of Interim Commission, hasn't delivered on its aid pledges although it reaffirmed them. DR president Fernandez told Préval except for a few South American countries there was a total lack of confidence in him. | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 |  | 2010-06-14: Skepticism About Government Reconstruction Plan by Alterpresse | |
| The government plan, written by foreigners, comes in for criticism at hands of experts at university forum in Haiti. The social worker Colette Lespinasse said it wouldn't take Haiti anywhere. | Rating: 3 |
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| 8 | | 2010-06-02: Alleged Aristide Accomplice in Teleco Looting Gets Four Years by Department of Justice | |
| Robert Antoine, director of int'l relations at Teleco 2001-2003, admitted to taking bribes from 3 U.S. telecoms to defraud Teleco. Haitian government filed suit in 2005 alleging Aristide involvement in scheme. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 |  | 2010-05-26: Lucy Snags Sigma Delta Award by The Komisar Scoop | |
| Wins their award for Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation 100,001+) for Miami Herald series exposing offshore money-laundering. Her previous stories bared alleged IDT role in Aristide's diversion of phone revenues to his Turks-and-Caicos account. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2010-05-25: Time for Préval To Go by Guichard Doré, Camp Patriotique pour le Sauvetage National | |
| On salut le courage des citoyens qui demandent le départ du pouvoir de l’équipe de Réné Préval. Préval n’a aucune crédibilité pour organiser quoi ce soit dans le pays. La population doit mettre un terme à cette politique d’appauvrissement et d’humiliation | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 | | 2010-04-23: Préval Hitches His Life-Presidency to International Aid Mechanism by Robert Benodin | |
| He cleverly combined into one bill his state-of-emergency powers and authorization of the U.N. aid mechanism, duly voted by his submissive parliament. Will use these powers to dump constitution and stay in power. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2010-04-21: La Tutelle . . . sans le nom by Vincent Marissal, La Presse, Montréal | |
| Il faut nous assurer que nos centaines de millions serviront les Haïtiens, et non pas le régime et ses amis, que nous ne cautionnons pas un gouvernement antidémocratique, même si celui-ci opère avec la bénédiction de Washington. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 |  | 2010-04-21: Oversight Needed for Billions of Dollars Handed to Haiti by Chicago Tribune | |
| Now isn't the time to let hope trump reality. There is too much at stake not just in life-and-death needs but in rebuilding Haiti's credibility to hand billions to the government and hope for the best. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 | | 2010-04-19: Lucy Komisar Snags National Headliner Award by webmaster | |
| Her Haiti stories shone a harsh light on reported IDT kickbacks to Aristide and the diversion of telephone revenue due Haiti. She also exposed top N.J. Republicans at IDT one of whom was forced to resign. She won this award for a separate investigation. | Rating: 5 |
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| 15 |  | 2010-03-23: Government Corruption Will Block Reconstruction by James Morrell, in Associated Press | |
| James Morrell, director of the Washington-based Haiti Democracy Project, said government corruption would block any serious effort to develop the country. "They need to go back to Obama and say, 'Let's not put all our eggs in one basket.'" | Rating: 5 |
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| 16 | | 2010-03-21: Justice Dept. Pursuing Reported Telecom Bribing of Aristide by Lucy Komisar, in Slate (The Big Money) | |
| Recent unsealing of government's statute-of-limitations extension plus "turning" of witnesses in recent Florida convictions suggest corruption case is still alive, using the facts of the Haitian government's 2005 lawsuit as a guide. IDT may be targeted. | Rating: 5 |
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| 17 |  | 2010-03-20: Préval Will Put In Wife As President by Sen. Rudolph Boulos, on EFE and Radio Haiti Focus |  |
| He wanted to change the constitution to stay in power himself, but failing that he is working 24/7 to put her in as the government party's candidate in the next elections, whenever they might be. | Rating: 5 |
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| 18 |  | 2010-01-23: Haiti Suffers from Grave Absence of Leadership by Michèle Pierre-Louis, former prime minister, in L'Express | |
| When Préval makes his rounds and is asked at a meeting what should be done, someone needs to remind him that, yes, he's the president of Haiti. Il faut que quelqu'un lui rappelle que le président, c'est lui. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2010-01-22: Haitian Government Blocking Humanitarian Shipment by source in Haiti | |
| Haitian customs blocking 1,400 lbs. of food, baby formula, and medical supplies that arrived from Miami for free distribution, demanding customs payment without even being able to present the bill. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 | | 2009-12-21: U.S. Official Connivance in Looting Haiti by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal | |
| Recent indictments put the spotlight back on the collusion of high U.S. officials in the despoliation of Haiti via rakeoff of telephone revenue. The author names Democrats but also cites IDT, which sported a roster of top Republicans. | Rating: 5 |
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