Let’s circle the following Canadian Barrister’s name folks: Martin Pink. Southern Nova Scotia is a tiny place from a population standpoint so it in inevitable certain names from the libel tourism cesspool begin to repeat themselves. With that said Timothy Gillespie has a must read up on the South Coast Today about Aaron Broussard, the Fox 8 case and Martin Pink, for whom Justice Pierre Muise once worked and who also has represented the Goatherders in the past.
Pink is also the registered agent for Kempt Wilderness Lodge Services, one of Broussard’s Canadian companies connected to the corruption scandal in Jefferson Parish. IMHO the SCT is small town journalism at its finest, especially given the archaic system of defamation laws under which the media in Canada must navigate.
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Sounds like problems are on the way for all incuding Mr. Pink and the girls. Ironic that it’s called “Public Works Investments”
U.S. firms seeking to do business in foreign markets must be familiar with the FCPA. In
general, the FCPA prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining
or keeping business. In addition, other statutes such as the mail and wire fraud statutes, 18
U.S.C.
TIMOTHY: From The Third Letter(Epistle)to Timothy from St.Paul: “Behold,thou shall keepeth driving thou Goat Herders until thou driveth them and thou evil spirits off wilderness cliffs unto the sea of fire”.
Small town journalism? SMALL TOWN?? I’ll have you know suh, that Shelburne is the cultural Mecca of the South Coast, a veritable Paris of Southwest Nova Scotia and we have a Tim Horton’s drive-thru to prove it. That we have dwindled from 10,000 in 1783 just after Mr Broussard’s murderous kin left these parts to fewer than one-fifth that today and that we have yet to see one stop light in this mini-megalopolis, does not make us small… merely inadequate. T Gillespie, SCT
THE CANADIAN CONNECTION
In September 1989, it was revealed that Canadian banks have been laundering drug money on an enormous scale. Notorious in this regard is the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) which has laundered $100 million in drug money through its Miami and Caribbean branches. The money was sent to the BNS’ Bahamas and Cayman Islands branches from Miami and then wired to its New York office where the funds could be withdrawn by the original depositors.
In 1981 and 1983, U.S. authorities subpoenaed records of the Bahamas and Cayman Islands BNS branches in connection with two investigations of drug trafficking. The bank gave up the documents only after being fined $1.8 million for delaying their release. BNS asked no questions about large cash deposits, ignored normal banking practices, and hid its depositor’s identities by keeping minimal records. Also, BNS employees in the Caribbean were given thousands of dollars in “tips” by their clients for their “understanding.”
Similarly, $726,000 in drug profits has been deposited in the Royal Bank of Canada. In 1989 the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) identified the Swiss Bank Corporation (Canada) as “a repository of $14 million in drug money.”
Sales of narcotics generate approximately $10 billion a year in Canada and most of this is washed through Canadian banks and other legitimate businesses. While money laundering is a crime in Canada, just as it is in the U.S., bank reporting requirements in Canada are voluntary. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are included in the DEA’s list of the 18 most prominent money laundering centres in the world.
http://www.asadismi.ws/cancon.html
Canada’s third-largest bank said Tuesday it will acquire Corporacion Interfin and merge it with its existing Costa Rican subsidiary, resulting in a 13 per cent loan market share
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/06/money-laundering-canadian-style.html
You’re on the right track Patricia. Where is Steve when you need him?
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