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Judi Lynn

(160,684 posts) Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:28 PM Feb 2012

Colombian ex-peace commissioner charged with contempt of court for fleeing the country

Colombian ex-peace commissioner charged with contempt of court for fleeing the country
Friday, 10 February 2012 16:55
Miriam Wells

Luis Carlos Restrepo, the former Colombian peace commissioner accused of staged a fake FARC demobilization, has been charged with contempt of court for fleeing the country.

Restrepo, who was facing charges of consipracy, embezzlement by appropriation, fraud, trafficking and possession of weapons, left Colombian on a plane bound for the [font size=5][font color=green]United States [/font][/font] on January 8.

A Bogota judge officially charged Restrepo Thursday and said he would be charged in absentia. The former official is alleged to have plotted with imprisoned FARC guerrilla "Olivo Saldaña" and a drug trafficker to pay homeless and unemployed people in the central Tolima department $278 each to train, live and act like FARC guerrillas, then surrender to security forces.

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Restrepo is one of many public servants from Uribe's controversial tenure now facing various accusations of corruption and malpractice, including Uribe's brother Santiago, who is accused of paramilitary links and plotting to discredit the Supreme Court.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/22148-colombian-ex-peace-commissioner-charged-with-contempt-of-court-for-fleeing-the-country.html

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Colombian ex-peace commissioner charged with contempt of court for fleeing the country (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2012 OP

Sounds like he belongs in the United States, his true home. Peace Patriot Feb 2012 #1

Crazy, isn't it? All the right-wing criminals beat a path to the U.S. when their luck runs out. Judi Lynn Feb 2012 #2

Peace Patriot

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1. Sounds like he belongs in the United States, his true home.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 10:21 PM

Feb 2012

"...plotted ...to pay homeless and unemployed people in the central Tolima department $278 each to train, live and act like FARC guerrillas, then surrender to security forces."

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The "numbers" are then presented to the U.S. Senate, in "green cloth" testimony, and somebody gets a half a billion dollars in government booty to keep on herding those lowlifes and terrorists into privatized prisons.

Do you suppose he'll get Miami mafia welfare (paid for by you and me) and run for office?

Nothing would surprise me.

Judi Lynn

(160,684 posts)

2. Crazy, isn't it? All the right-wing criminals beat a path to the U.S. when their luck runs out.

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:29 PM

Feb 2012

They usually end up right there in South Florida, a true criminal colony if there ever was one.

Wouldn't be a surprise at all to learn our tax dollars are going to support his pathetic ass to keep him in the style to which he had accustomed himself. They just don't want him going back to be questioned by any courts working to clean up Colombia's government. Too much at stake, too many names to protect.

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