OK guys, more research to do :
(first spotted and then posted about on another board by a member of a well-known Jersey crime family...)
http://forums.talkleft.com/index.php/topic,613.0.html
"Federal prosecutors Monday sought to seize a Durham house they say was bought as part of a scheme that skimmed more than $1 million from a government contract to boost democracy in Iraq.
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Rudi, an Estonian citizen who has not been charged in the case, quit the Research Triangle Park nonprofit in August 2005, according to the statement.
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Several months before Rudi's resignation, RTI discovered on invoices that Rudi approved "questionable amounts" paid to a Dubai software company and other firms.
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In addition, the Dubai subcontractor received a portion of an $80,000 payment Rudi directed to a human resources and payroll software company owned by Steve Mangano, whom Rudi met while both were taking business courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, according to Schofield's statement. Mangano introduced Rudi to Houssam Hatoum, operator of the Dubai subcontractor.
Hatoum, Rudi, Rudi's wife and Jan Jogis-Laats, a fellow Estonian working as an accountant for the Dubai subcontractor, also set up a company, Tanbay LLC, according to Schofield's statement. . .
Jogis-Laats was also managing member of South Bay Partners LLC and Exford Management LLC, two firms involved in the purchase of the house on Birnham Lane, according to Schofield's statement. . .
In March 2004, Exford paid $300,000 to a Durham attorney's trust account, (which attorney??)
payments described as earnest money and purchase payment for the house. . .