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Haiti PM files new complaint in defamation case-Added COMMENTARY By Hiatian-Truth

   June 20, 2013

Associated Press

MIAMI — Following a judge’s order, Haiti’s prime minister has filed a more detailed complaint in his defamation case against a Haitian-American journalist.

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and South Florida businessman Patrice Baker originally sued Leo Joseph in September over his reporting in the New York-based Haiti-Observateur. They allege that Joseph knew his reporting about the Haitian government’s acquisition of a telecommunications company included false and defamatory statements about Lamothe and Baker.

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro dismissed an amended complaint Lamothe and Baker filed in April for not directly quoting the statements they alleged to be defamatory.

Lamothe and Baker’s third amended complaint was filed Friday and includes specific articles they found objectionable.

Joseph’s attorney, Scott Ponce, declined comment Wednesday on the new complaint.

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Franck Cine mounted an expensive and defamatory campaign against Laurent Lamothe, and the Government of Haiti, in an effort to mask the true facts in the HAITEL case.

The situation is easy to understand, once all of the Cine smoke and mirrors have been eliminated.

Franck Cine ran a criminal empire, with Jean-Bertrand Aristide as his partner. With Aristide’s support, Cine avoided paying tens of millions in taxes, millions that would have been better spent on rice-and-beans for Haitian children. Instead, the $$ disappeared into Aristide’s offshore accounts, to join the other millions accumulated via theft, from the Haitian treasury, and his rake-off from the cocaine trade. Aristide received 20% of HAITEL’s gross over HAITEL’s lifetime, including the months after Aristide’s departure into exile.

Preval tried to squeeze Cine, for some $$ but Cine refused and was tossed into jail for problems involved with SOCABANK, another Cine project that saw cocaine cash create the bank, along with $$ siphoned off from the national treasury, by Beaulieu when he was Governor of the Central Bank.  A lot of people, plus Cine, should share a prison cell, over the SOCABANK crime. Unfortunately, this will not be the case because of those who are involved.

Money brings power and power guarantees immunity.

And so, Cine was finally released from prison (actually a suite at the Canape Verte Hospital) and flown to the States.

Rather than be satisfied, with the $$ he had stashed offshore, and in American accounts, Cine’s ego saw him attack the innocent who were simply acting on the Haitian peoples’ best interests.

CINE OWES THE HAITIAN PEOPLE NEARLY $100,000,000.00  IN TAXES AND OTHER FEES, PLUS TENS OF MILLIONS TO THOSE WHO PAID FOR SERVICE AND DID NOT RECEIVE IT!!!  OF COURSE THERE SHOULD BE INTEREST ADDED TO THE DEPT, WHICH WOULD ADD ANOTHER HUGE AMOUNT!!!

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, supported by his cabinet, moved to seize the Cine/Haitel assets to satisfy part of his debts to Haiti, and the Haitian people..

This was his duty.

The Cine/HAITEL holdings were sold at auction via the offices of Jean-Henry Ceant.

One wonders if Aristide got 20% of the proceeds??

Cine then used the fact that Lamothe was involved with the phone business, prior to entering government, and this factor was the real motivation in the Government of Haiti’s actions.

The HAITI OBSERVATEUR was used as a propaganda tool by Franck Cine.

And now, because of this, they are faced with a major legal action that will be embarrassing to them, when the facts are revealed withing the Federal Court system in America.

One would hope that Franck Cine would dig into his pocket to help defray the HAITI OBSERVATEUR’s legal expenses.

Knowing Cine, and expectation of this would rival a child’s belief in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny.

An International Arrest Warrant should be issued for Franck Cine.

And we should not forget Jean-Bertrand Aristide who can be served at Tabarre.

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