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Unsealed documents detail corruption allegations against ex-Antigua PM Lester Bird & associates

September 25, 2012 by David Marchant

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  • In return for US$1m, Lester Bird offered to make Bruce Rappaport Antigua's Ambassador to Israel, say investigators
  • Bird allegedly asked Rappaport for another US$100,000 to pay for "hams and turkeys for my Constituents"
  • Bird's Chief of Staff, Asot Michael, allegedly extorted up to US$7.5 million from Syrian-Antiguan Hadeed Family
  • "All the wealthy businessmen in Antigua got hit these ways," Aziz Hadeed told investigators

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Documents that were unsealed recently at federal court in Miami provide specifics of a long-running criminal investigation into alleged fraud, corruption, extortion, and money laundering by former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Lester Bird and his associates, including Asot Michael, Josette Michael, John E. St. Luce, Robin Yearwood, Bruce Rappaport, and Sir Ronald Sanders.

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