Johnnie, you still havent answered my question: When did Tom Coburn become a democrat?
Laredo Morning Times - Thursday, June 4, 1998 BY CATHERINE WILSON
AP Business Writer
MIAMI - Three men associated with the Port of Miami, including its ousted former director, were charged Wednesday with stealing $1.3 million and using the money on Super Bowl tickets, lingerie and bar tabs.
They also are accused of using stolen funds to donate $120,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1994.
Since 1990, the three "have used the Port of Miami as a personal bank," said U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott. Calvin Grigsby, owner of the company that ran the port's container cargo cranes, and former- port director Carmen Lunetta were charged with conspiracy, embezzlement and money laundering. Port contractor Neal Harrington was charged with embezzlement and theft.
Lunetta was forced to resign as port director last year after a judge ruled that Grigsby's cargo company had to open its books to public scrutiny. The port, owned by Miami-Dade County and the eighth-busiest cargo port in the country, lost a total of $22 million in five years while Lunetta controlled the purse strings.
Grigsby owns Fiscal Operations Inc., which since 1982 has operated the towering gantry cranes that handle all of the port's containerized cargo. Public money diverted from the port was held in Fiscal Operations accounts, the indictment charged.
Fiscal Operations collects nearly $8 million a year in ship fees, with the county's share being around $1 million a year in recent years.
Harrington was part owner and a director of Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., a major port contractor which rented cranes from Fiscal Operations.
The $120,000 donated to the Democratic Party in 1994 came from Harrington at Lunetta's request, and Continental was reimbursed, prosecutors said.
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/archive/060498/pagea9.pdf
Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc. has a business relationship with P&O, via interest in a commonly owned entity, Eller-I.T.O Stevedoring Company. I get the feeling that more digging will result in a mass of names that would take a chart or visual aid to grasp. ;-)
"Gee don't suppose this has anything to do with why Chucky and the Senate Dems are all pissed about the Dubai Company getting the contract? Don't suppose maybe Chucky wasn't able to squeeze the Company for a "Contribution" and this manufactured hysteria is pay back? "
NOW HERE THIS! I don't care the reason. All I care is the deal gets stopped so we can reasonably secure our ports of entry without muslim involvement.
They say this like it is a bad thing. The "lingerie" charges are a front for prostitution, or limosine service. It should still be investigated, with open hearings.