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Posted on 02/21/2012 6:59:09 AM PST by jmcenanly
A prominent Obama administration trade advisor is one of the central players in a series of scandals and ethical rows that have reportedly placed him in cahoots with corrupt Congolese warlords and other questionable figures.
Kase Lawal, an oil mogul with longstanding ties to the Clinton family, was appointed in 2010 as a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Since his selection to the trade board, Lawal has become enmeshed in a pact to purchase large quantities of illegal gold from a violent Congolese warlord, according to a U.N. investigation and various reports.
The crooked gold deal—as well as several other past scandals—raise concerns that the Nigerian-born Lawal is unfit to advise the White House about an issue as sensitive as global trade.
Lawal—founder of the oil and gas conglomerate CAMAC International—stands accused of transferring millions of dollars to Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel commander who has been linked by the International Criminal Court to a series of ethnic massacres and rapes. The deal, if verified, violates a U.N. ban on doing business with rogue Congolese warlords.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
And that is one ugly image to form in the mind. I picture war drums and war paint. Yuck.
I always ask if these African tyrants are related to Obama.
Everybody who’s anybody in Africa probably is. His baby daddy did get around.
February 2011 : (Congo : Obama appointee Kase Lawal’s subsidiary’s company jet is impounded, crew detained for being used to smuggle gold from rebel [M23] held territories)
A private jet owned by a North Texas company has been impounded for the past 2 1/2 weeks and its passengers and crew detained by the Congolese government in central Africa, where officials say it was used to smuggle gold from rebel territories in the nation’s eastern provinces.
The plane was leased by Southlake Aviation, based in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth, to a subsidiary of CAMAC International, The Dallas Morning News reported in its Sunday editions.
CAMAC company is owned by Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born Houston oil tycoon an appointee of President Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ——— Texas-owned private jet owned impounded in Congo, AP/HoustonChronicle , 2/20/11
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Jan 3, 2012
UN REPORT SAYS HOUSTON EXEC ORGANIZED ILLICIT GOLD DEAL
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/U-N-report-says-Houston-exec-organized-illicit-2439644.php
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