Posted on 02/18/2010 12:43:31 PM PST by pabianice
A million-dollar backer of the Clinton Foundation was barred from boarding a corporate jet in New Jersey last month after officials discovered his name was on the federal no-fly list. Gilbert Chagoury, a billionaire Nigerian businessman, was departing Teterboro airport on his way to France when the FBI stopped him for questioning. Chagoury eventually obtained a "waiver" from Washington to continue his trip, and the office of former President Bill Clinton said it had "no role whatsoever" in securing the special permission. A spokesperson for the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center said the no-fly list is "fluid," but that "an individual's social status, financial means, and political affiliations are not considered" when making decisions about the list.
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Perhaps a little help from wifey?
The no-fly list applies to private planes? I didn’t know that.
Should have held him on suspicion of being that "Nigerian prince" that keeps filling everybody's e-mail box with that phishing scam...
I think the explanation for that is that they take the no fly list a little more seriously now after all the flak over the panty bomber.
Smoke? Fire?
How do you think he got his waiver to fly? For the small, reasonable sum of $10,000, he will deposit the handsome sum of $20,000,000 as soon as he arrives in Paris.
LOL...You mean to tell me there really is such a thing as a Nigerian businessman? I thought they were all a hoax.
There is not a no fly list for a flight in an aircraft operated under Federal Aviation Regulation Part 91. That would include most flights in general aviation aircraft that are flown for personal use, corporate use, flight instruction, etc. But if it is an aircraft that has a gross take-off weight of over 12,500 pounds and it is flown for hire, then the operator runs the name against the no fly list. Frankly, I don’t know what our company dispatchers do if they find a name of one of our potential passengers on the no fly list. I guess they report it to TSA.
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