CONNECTING THE DOTS ON LAWYER FOR RUSH ACCUSER

Don't know if there's anything here, but in trying to get information about Ed Shohat, quite an intriguing web is revealed. He's the attorney for the alleged "maid" to Rush Limbaugh who's reported turning him in for illegal prescription drug purchasing. His Democrat Party ties are known .. but there's more.

Shohat is also the attorney for Eduardo and Hector Orlansky, whose financial intrigue is described here:

It just show happens that Espirito Santo Bank formed a partnership with the Orlansky brothers for the purpose of funding their lucrative factoring business.

"One client of Bankest's was Stratesec, a Washington-area security company. In its financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stratesec acknowledges that E.S. Bankest's money was the lifeblood of its financing."

"Stratesec Incorporated (formerly known as Securacom Incorporated) provides comprehensive technology-based security solutions to large and medium sized commercial and government facilities. The company provides consulting, planning, engineering, designing, systems integration, maintenance and technical support services. The solutions provided by the company include integrated security systems, comprising a command center managing one or more subsystems, intrusion detection systems, closed circuit television systems and fire detection systems. The services include security consulting, integration and implementation of the security systems. The clients of the company include Washington Dulles International Airport, Hewlett-Packard Company, EDS, Wachovia Bank, MCI WorldCom, Inc. and Alltel Corporation. The company became publicly held in October 1997."

That information on Business.com has a url shown, but it's not in sync with the name. It's http://www.bpm.it for Banco Popolare di Milano, an obviously Italian site all in Italian.

The brothers Orlansky are being repped by Shohat as a result of their defaulting on some $170M owed to Espirito Santo.

Colombia: Druglord extradition official

Bogota, Colombia, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Colombia's president has signed an order to extradite to the United States one of the country's most notorious druglords, El Tiempo newspaper reported Tuesday.

The decree by President Alvaro Uribe makes official the transport of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela to the states, where, if convicted, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Orejuela -- the erstwhile chief of the world famous Cali cartel -- has been in a Colombian prison since his 1995 arrest. However at that time extradition to the United States was forbidden by Colombian law.

In other Colombia news, Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has rejected an offer to hold talks with the Colombian government to swap their hostages for imprisoned rebels.

FARC uses hostage taking and drug production to fund their 40-year war with the Colombian government.

No connection:

[embedded reporter]Kevin Sites has made several trips to Colombia, covering U.S. anti-drug efforts, including cocoa spraying operations and the training of the Colombian government's Jungle Commandos. When Colombian paramilitary forces captured travel writer, Robert Young Pelton and his companions in November 2002, Sites interviewed them live, via videophone from the edge of the jungle, shortly after their release.

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