Posted on 12/05/2016 4:09:57 PM PST by ColdOne
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For a decade, an American flag flew outside a battered pink building in Ghana’s capital city, welcoming out-of-town visitors who, once inside, found a photo of President Obama hanging on the wall. Signs confirmed to travelers — who had been bused in from the most remote parts of West Africa — that they had arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Accra.
The “consular officers” working there were not Americans, but they spoke English and Dutch and issued official-looking visas and identification papers. They charged their customers $6,000.
Billboards and fliers advertised the official services.
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full title................Mobsters ran a fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana for 10 years, flying the flag and issuing visas for $6,000
Doing the job Americans won’t do./s
Can we really say they are less honest than the actual US government?
What a ripoff. Obama would have given them a real visa, bought a plane ticket, imported them to your neighborhood, and set them up on a lifetime of welfare.
If it weren’t true it would be funny!
Try having the title amended or posting a new thread. Dropping three zeros is a big deal. I was curious as to how the mob could make money at those prices
The whole continent is filled with scams, why should Ghana be different?
The government of Ghana was too busy collecting bribes and kickbacks to investigate.
How did this scam get past Hillary and John eff’n Kerry? Did they not get their cut, or did they?
Lighten up Francis
Africans faking being Americans so they can hand out Visas for cash.
A microcosm of President Obama’s 8 year reign.
Ten years?!
To be fair, $6 is a lot of money in Ghana.
So is there an actual legitimate US embassy in Ghana?
No one complained about being ripped off or did everyone make it to the US ok and are now living here and voting democrat?
“If it weren’t true it would be funny!”
It might be “fake news” but if it’s true I think it’s hilarious. Those folks in west Africa can counterfeit anything, even an embassy lol.
It’s all a bit of corrupt fun and games until the Muzzies go on a rampage and kill your “ambassador”.
Maybe they can find Obama’s BC!
Sounds like the kinda scam roger clinton & hugh rodham would be runnin
Were the visas accepted by the US? That would say more than the phony embassy.
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