"Four charged in alleged Ponzi scheme" by Associated Press | June 18, 2010
MIAMI — US authorities have charged four people with running a Ponzi scheme that bilked 600 Haitian-American investors out of $6 million.
Federal prosecutors alleged the scheme involved two businesses known as Focus Development Center Inc. and Focus Financial Group. They said sales pitches were made in churches and on Haitian radio stations....
--more--"Another predator and Ponzi schemer:
"Marc Louis Bazin; helped guide Haiti after 1991 coup" by Associated Press | June 18, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marc Louis Bazin, who lost Haiti’s first free presidential election in 1990 and went on to become prime minister, died Wednesday. He was 78.
Patrick Michel, the leader of Mr. Bazin’s political party, said the former prime minister died of cancer.
Mr. Bazin came up short for the presidency twice, most famously a 1990 landslide loss to populist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A coup followed the next year, and the generals who ousted Aristide made Mr. Bazin prime minister.
Yes, and he was AmeriKa's man in those elections.
At the time the results stunned the globe-kickers because Lavalas won despite no money and no backing from the controllers.
That's why he got elected and couped-out twice.
He held the position for a year before resigning.
After Aristide was again ousted in 2004, Mr. Bazin ran against dozens of other candidates for the presidency but lost to René Préval, the country’s current president.
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Just wondering why the obit didn't mention he was a World Bank economist or that he was a CIA agent?
And WHAT ABOUT the CURRENT SITUATION in HAITI, Globe?
I meant IN HAITI, like IN the TENT CAMPS!
How is the rebuilding going?
