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

Highlights

• 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