Jacqueline Wilson : Gabon, another oil producer, has gone through more than a half a dozen lobbying firms in recent years. Most of them, like Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand [see Ethiopia], and Powell Tate, have been politically very well connected to both major parties. Costs have been well over a million dollars a year, or an average of about 250,000 dollars per agency.
Most recently, however, Gabon appears to have cut off some of its agents, settling instead for relationships with UK-based Shandwick Public Affairs, which last year [2000] bought out Powell Tate and Cassidy & Associates.
Gabon has also maintained a three-year-old relationship with Jacqueline Wilson, the ex-spouse of a senior US diplomat [Joe Wilson]. According to her filings, Wilson receives tens of thousands of dollars for special projects and reports to President Omar Bongo's daughter, Pascaline Mferri Bongo.
In her latest filing, Wilson reported that she was paid 60,000 dollars between August and November 2000 to ''support action of president of Gabon to fight AIDS pandemic (and) develop a strategy.'' As to work performed, she reported sending ''letters to the office of National AIDS policy at the White House.''------- "USA: African Governments Spend Millions on Lobbying,"by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, CORPWATCH, May 20th, 2001, http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?id=98
Wonder if there is any Jacqueline Wilson connection to Daddy "ChillBucks" Jefferson and his - or was it his wife's foundation, an AIDS-and-Africa-related charity?
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VICE-PRESIDENT Atiku Abubakar's wife, Jennifer, has been indicted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe of US Congressman, William Jefferson, over bribery involving a transnational tele-communications deal. Jennifer resides in the Potomac, Maryland home of Atiku which was raided on August 3, 2005, by the FBI in connection with the bribery investigation.
In a report on Tuesday, the FBI revealed that a taped conversation between Jefferson and a wired Mody saw the embattled American lawmaker describing Jennifer as a "front". Jefferson told Mody that the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Gede Foundation, being operated in Washington by Jennifer, was a front, being used to channel illegal funds by the Atiku family.
Gede Foundation, according to the founder, was to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The affidavit recently unsealed by the FBI on the investigation also quoted Jefferson as describing Atiku Abubakar as "a businessman who has more deals than the man in the moon and he's a very well, the word might be... corrupt".
DOUGLAS-ABUBAKA, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER
DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL 06/30/2000 5000.00 20035761701
Total Soft Money: 5000.00
Contributions to Political Committees
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
USAID
CLELAND, JOSEPH MAXWELL VIA FRIENDS OF MAX CLELAND FOR THE US SENATE INC 02/20/2002 250.00 22020290638
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J
SILVER SPRING, MD 20910
USAID
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 09/08/2000 500.00 20036150899
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20910
USAID/SPECIAL ASSISTANT
GORE, AL VIA GORE 2000 INC 03/11/1999 250.00 20990084055
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER MS.
POTOMAC, MD 20854
GEDE FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE 11/21/2003 25000.00 23992532958
DOUGLAS-ABUBAKA, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 06/30/2000 20000.00 20035760210
DOUGLAS-ABUBAKAR, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER
MIKULSKI, BARBARA VIA MIKULSKI FOR SENATE COMMITTEE 09/30/2003 1000.00 23020372022
DOUGLAS-ABUBAKAR, JENNIFER E
POTOMAC, MD 20854
SEDE FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT
VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS VIA VAN HOLLEN FOR CONGRESS 01/26/2004 500.00 24990525459
Total Contributions: 47500.00
Joint Fundraising Contributions
These are contributions to committees who are raising funds to be distributed to other committees. The breakdown of these contributions to their final recipients may appear below
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J MS.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20783
SELF EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT
KERRY VICTORY 2004 07/09/2004 250.00 24962130552
Total Joint Fundraising: 250.00
Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions
These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions
DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J MS.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20783
SELF EMPLOYED
KERRY, JOHN F VIA JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC 07/09/2004 250.00 24962262013
Weird that she also gave such a large sum to the RNC, considering her other donations.