That name rings a bell.
2003 fall : (NANA PACIFIC / GUARDIAN NET CASE : PENTAGON OFFICIAL SHAW ACCUSES US & IRAQI OFFICIALS OF ACCEPTING BRIBES IN THE AWARDING OF THREE LICENSES TO PRIVATE CELLPHONE SERVICE COMPANIES IN IRAQ - BUT SHAW IS ALSO PUSHING A COMPANY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS FRIEND, DON DEMARINO, CALLED "GUARDIAN NET" TO WIN A CONTRACT FOR WORK IN IRAQ THROUGH A MINORITY RUN COMPANY CALLED "NANA PACIFIC") [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw first raised concerns in fall 2003 about whether U.S. and Iraqi officials were bribed in the awarding of three licenses to private companies to provide cellphone service in Iraq. The licenses were each estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars.
At the same time, he began championing a company called Guardian Net, whose board included longtime friend Don DeMarino, to win a contract to provide a police and fire radio system to Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Shaw urged top CPA officials to award the contract to Nana Pacific, a small business run by Alaska Natives. Nana, which had no experience in the Middle East or in telecommunications networks, then planned to subcontract the work to Guardian Net, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Under special federal contracting guidelines designed to help small and minority businesses, firms like Nana Pacific have the ability to win contracts of any size without going through the competitive bidding process usually required to protect taxpayer dollars.
The plan fell apart after Shaw ordered CPA officials to modify language in the police radio contract to allow the Nana Pacific and Guardian Net team to construct an entire cellular phone network for Iraq — creating, in effect, a fourth cellphone license, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Daniel Sudnick, the CPA's senior advisor to Iraq's Ministry of Communication, reported his concerns over Shaw's efforts to the Pentagon's inspector general, who later turned the investigation over to the FBI.
FBI officials declined to comment Friday on the status of that investigation. ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
Previously posted:
2003 fall : (NANA PACIFIC / GUARDIAN NET CASE : PENTAGON OFFICIAL SHAW ACCUSES US & IRAQI OFFICIALS OF ACCEPTING BRIBES IN THE AWARDING OF THREE LICENSES TO PRIVATE CELLPHONE SERVICE COMPANIES IN IRAQ - BUT SHAW IS ALSO [Allegedly] PUSHING A COMPANY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS FRIEND, DON DEMARINO, CALLED "GUARDIAN NET" TO WIN A CONTRACT FOR WORK IN IRAQ THROUGH A MINORITY RUN COMPANY CALLED "NANA PACIFIC") [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw first raised concerns in fall 2003 about whether U.S. and Iraqi officials were bribed in the awarding of three licenses to private companies to provide cellphone service in Iraq. The licenses were each estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars.
At the same time, he began championing a company called Guardian Net, whose board included longtime friend Don DeMarino, to win a contract to provide a police and fire radio system to Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Shaw urged top CPA officials to award the contract to Nana Pacific, a small business run by Alaska Natives. Nana, which had no experience in the Middle East or in telecommunications networks, then planned to subcontract the work to Guardian Net, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Under special federal contracting guidelines designed to help small and minority businesses, firms like Nana Pacific have the ability to win contracts of any size without going through the competitive bidding process usually required to protect taxpayer dollars.
The plan fell apart after Shaw ordered CPA officials to modify language in the police radio contract to allow the Nana Pacific and Guardian Net team to construct an entire cellular phone network for Iraq — creating, in effect, a fourth cellphone license, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Daniel Sudnick, the CPA's senior advisor to Iraq's Ministry of Communication, reported his concerns over Shaw's efforts to the Pentagon's inspector general, who later turned the investigation over to the FBI.
FBI officials declined to comment Friday on the status of that investigation. ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
2004 : (REPORT : PENTAGON REPORT FINDS EVIDENCE THAT NADHMI AUCHI ORGANIZED A CONSPIRACY TO WIN MOBILE TELEPHONE LICENSES IN IRAQ-- See ELF, GMH, TONY REZCO, CHICAGO) In 2004, a report by the Pentagon's International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate found "significant and credible evidence" that Auchi organized a conspiracy to offer bribes to win mobile telephone licenses in Iraq. He was barred from entering the United States in 2005. -----Obama's Mansion, Saddam's Money..............(connection to Obama, who personally benefited ) FrontPageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Daniel Pipes
UH OH...SNIP...
In three steps, these corrupt businessmen [AUCHI, REZCO] tie the Democratic Party presidential candidate [OBAMA] to the executed Iraqi tyrant:
Saddam Hussein made use of Auchi: Auchi's fortune largely grew through his Iraq government connection, much of it sub rosa. In the 1980s, he procured Italian military ships.When seen in the context of Obama's other dubious connections (Ayers, Davidson, Wright, Khalidi, et al.), this network is all the more alarming. -----Obama's Mansion, Saddam's Money..............(connection to Obama, who personally benefited ) FrontPageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Daniel Pipes
By 1993, the Italian banker Pierfrancesco Pacini Battaglia testified about Auchi bribing Iraqi officials for an Italian engineering company and called Auchi "one of the most important intermediaries in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries."
Auchi is also a major shareholder in BNP Paribas, the French bank deeply implicated in the U.N.'s corrupt Iraq oil-for-food program.
Auchi made use of Rezko: Rezko lobbied for Auchi to be allowed into the United States.
A wholly-owned GMHSA subsidiary, Fintrade Services Inc., transferred a loan of $3.5 million on May 23, 2005 to Rezko. -----Obama's Mansion, Saddam's Money..............(connection to Obama, who personally benefited ) FrontPageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Daniel PipesRezko cultivated Obama:
Rezko offered Barack Obama a job in 1990, which Obama declined. Still, Rezko persisted, hiring him for legal work and hosting in 2003 an early fundraiser that, writes David Mendell in Obama: From Promise to Power,
proved "instrumental in providing Obama with seed money" for his nascent U.S. Senate campaign. Then, on June 15, 2005, just twenty-three days after receiving Auchi's $3.5 million, Rezko partnered with Obama in a real estate deal: while Rezko's wife paid the full asking price, $625,000, for an empty adjoining lot which they then improved, subdivided, and partially sold to Obama, Obama acquired a mansion for $1.65 million, $300,000 under the asking price.
Summing up: Barack Obama's house purchase depended on favors from Rezko, flush with a "loan" from Auchi, whose fortune derived in part from Saddam Hussein's favor. -----Obama's Mansion, Saddam's Money
..............(connection to Obama, who personally benefited ) FrontPageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Daniel Pipes2004 : (IRAQI BILLIONAIRE AUCHI VISITS THE USA, VISITS WITH THE DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT OF THE ILLINOIS STATE SENATE EMIL JONES, A FRIEND AND ALLY OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA -- See ILLINOIS GOV. BLAGOJEVICH, GMH, FRENCH OIL COMPANY ELF ) APRIL 2005 : (IRAQI-BORN BILLIONAIRE AUCHI LENDS REZCO $3.5 MILLION )
MAY 23, 2005 : (IRAQI-BORN AUCHI'S COMPANY MAKES $3.5 MILLION LOAN TO TONY REZCO {see ILLINOIS GOV BLAGOJEVICH, B H OBAMA} THROUGH THE PANAMANIAN COMPANY FINTRADE SERVICES) ----- "Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal," Times Online [UK], BY James Bone & Dominic Kennedy in London February 25, 2008Monday, February 25, 2008
JUNE 15, 2005 : (OBAMA BUYS A HOUSE ON CHICAGO'S S SIDE WHILE TONY REZCO'S WIFE BUYS A GARDEN PLOT NEXT DOOR FROM THE SAME SELLER) ----- "Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal," Times Online [UK], BY James Bone & Dominic Kennedy in London February 25, 2008Monday, February 25, 2008
SEPTEMBER 2005 : (IRAQI-BORN BILLIONAIRE AUCHI LENDS REZCO $11 MILLION MORE) ----- SEE "Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal," Times Online [UK], BY James Bone & Dominic Kennedy in London February 25, 2008Monday, February 25, 2008
APRIL 2007 : (IRAQI-BORN BILLIONAIRE AUCHI LENDS REZCO ANOTHER $3.5 MILLION AS PART OF DEAL GIVING AUCHI A STAKE IN A CHICAGO 62 ACRE RIVERSIDE PARK DEVELOPMENT)----- SEE "Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal," Times Online [UK], BY James Bone & Dominic Kennedy in London February 25, 2008Monday, February 25, 2008
JUNE 2007 : (REZCO , A FINANCER OF OBAMA'S POLITICAL CAREER, OWES IRAQI-BORN BILLIONAIRE AUCHI $27.9 MILLION) ----- SEE "Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal," Times Online [UK], BY James Bone & Dominic Kennedy in London February 25, 2008Monday, February 25, 2008
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Nadhmi Auchi's influence stretches to the highest levels of the British political establishment and he counts princes and presidents among his personal friends. The wealth of the Iraqi billionaire outstrips the Queen and Sir Richard Branson and has given him access to the rich and powerful from Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan to Lord Sainsbury. He collects prominent former politicians from across Europe as directors of his companies. --More: CorpWatchAn Anglo-Iraqi billionaire who has close links to the Blair government, built his financial empire on peddling his influence with Saddam Hussein's Baathist ...-------CorpWatch : IRAQ: British tycoon in quiz over ties to Labour www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11894 - 36k - Cached