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A Lingering Problem for IDT — CEO admits company official met with Aristide
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*Barron’s, Sept 20, 2010 –*
**

Scoop summary: Howard Jonas, CEO of U.S. telecom IDT, in an interview with
Lucy Komisar, acknowledges for the first time that then Haiti President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2003 met with an IDT official during discussions
about a contract to pay Haiti Teleco for calls from U.S. customers. That
contract included agreement for IDT to send payments to a shell company in
the offshore Turks and Caicos Islands. Jonas said IDT got an “ethics letter”
from a law firm clearing the deal, but the lawyer said in a memo filed with
the court, published here for the first time, that he simply told IDT to do
“due diligence.” IDT signed the contract the next day.

A former IDT official, who objected to the deal, was fired and is suing the
company; trial is set for Nov 9th. The Justice Department and Securities and
Exchange Commission are investigating violation of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act. Jonas’s revelations are likely to have a major impact in the
trial and investigations.

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*The Big Money, March 11, 2010* –

When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in January, IDT, the New
Jersey-based global phone company, moved fast to help.

It announced it was setting up calling stations at hotels and other sites so
Haitians could use its Internet calling-service to reach family and friends
around the world. It cut rates on its U.S. prepaid calling-card to 2 cents a
minute to Haiti (at least for 12 days), donated 4,000 $2-prepaid
calling-cards to Haitian community groups in New York and Florida, and said
it would give some proceeds from prepaid calls to Haitian Red Cross relief.

Such a warm, fuzzy response from a U.S. corporation often wins plaudits,
though, of course, IDT has a business interest in the impoverished island.
In 2005, in its latest publicly available figures, the company reported $4
million in profits from $17 million in revenues for routing calls there.

March 11, 2010 | Posted in Corporate
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July 29, 2008

Articles I wrote this month about the resignation of IDT CEO James Courter
as John McCain’s finance co-chair provoked supporters of former Haiti
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to noisy denials and personal attacks.

I wrote that Courter had resigned after I reported that the Federal
Communications Commission had fined
<http://thekomisarscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/fcc-statement-o…>IDT
$1.3 million for failing to file its contract with Haiti.

Why would IDT fail to file the contract? Maybe because it shows that in this
Aristide-administration deal, payments were below the legal 23 cents a
minute set by the FCC (money that would have gone to Haiti) and that IDT
payments were ordered sent to a shell company account in the Turks & Caicos
instead of to a government account in Haiti.

Read the contract<http://thekomisarscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/contract-betwee…>
.

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Condé Nast Portfolio, July 15, 2008

Jim Courter, one of Senator John McCain’s top fundraisers, has resigned from
the McCain campaign just days after Lucy Komisar reported on portfolio.com that
Courter’s company had been fined by regulators.

The Federal Communications Commission last week levied a fine of $1.3
million against IDT, a New Jersey telecommunications company headed by
Courter, for failing to disclose its 2003-04 long-distance phone agreements
with Haiti.

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Inter Press Service (IPS) – Nov 6, 2006

The company is under investigation by the SEC, the United States Attorney in
Newark, New Jersey, and a U.S. federal grand jury for allegedly paying
bribes to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president of Haiti. Five nationally
prominent US Republicans, the independent board members of a corporation
that has been charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
to get a sweetheart telecom deal in Haiti, are leaving its board. The
company is IDT, the world’s third-ranked international phone company.

IDT is run by James Courter (shown here), a former New Jersey Republican
congressman. The other Republicans are Rudy Boschwitz, former senator from
Minnesota; James S. Gilmore III, former Virginia governor; Thomas Slade
Gorton III, former senator from Washington State; Jack Kemp, former
congressman from New York and 1996 vice presidential nominee; and Jeane
Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN under President Ronald
Reagan.

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Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 26, 2006

The U.S. Justice Department is withholding agreement to share assets seized
from Haitian drug traffickers to finance a lawsuit by the Haitian government
charging former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with taking bribes.

The suit is based on allegations by a former executive of the telecom
company IDT that before Aristide left the country in 2004, he took hundreds
of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from IDT, which is connected to
prominent U.S. Republicans.

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Sept 18, 2006
*Is top Justice official protecting a former client accused of bribery?*

The Justice Department’s Criminal Division, headed by a Bush political
appointee who gave legal advice to a company accused of bribing Haiti’s
former president, is blocking an agreement to share seized Haitian drug
money that would help Haiti pursue the bribery case in U.S. courts. The
accused company is run by a former Republican congressman.

[image: Alice Fisher]

The Criminal Division chief, Alice Fisher, formerly a registered lobbyist
for HCA, the healthcare company founded by the father of Republican Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist, is a recess appointee. Her approval was blocked
by Senators concerned about her qualifications and about her participation
in a government meeting on abusive interrogations at the U.S. military
prison camp at Guantanamo.

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CorpWatch, Dec 29, 2005

Two U.S. lawsuits charge that former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and his associates accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in
kickbacks from politically connected U.S. telecom companies.

Lawsuits filed this Fall challenge the former priest’s image of political
purity and raise claims that both he and U.S. corporate executives scammed
illegal profits off the hemisphere’s poorest population.

In one suit, a fired executive charged his former employer, the U.S. telecom
IDT (Newark, NJ), with corruption, defamation, and intimidation under the
New Jersey anti-racketeering law. In the second, the government of Haiti
contends that IDT, Fusion (New York, NY) and several other North American
telecoms violated the federal RICO anti-racketeering statute. Both suits
allege that Aristide, now in exile in South Africa, and his associates, took
kickbacks.

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Haiti Democracy Project, Nov 10, 2005

Add former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the long list of
corrupt and repressive officials who have used Western banks and companies
and offshore tax havens to plunder their countries and launder the stolen
money.

Aristide and his associates looted government coffers, wrote checks to front
companies for nonexistent purchases, padded invoices to get kickbacks from
vendors, secretly owned companies that cheated Haiti of taxes, and laundered
the money they stole through shell companies and secret bank accounts set up
in the United States and the offshore tax havens of Turks and Caicos and the
British Virgin Islands.

[image: Check from account of Aristide]

Nearly $20 million has been documented as stolen between 2001, when Aristide
took office as president for the second time, and 2004, when he fled or was
forced out of the country according to varying accounts.

2011/7/4 Yvon Supris <yvonsurp@gmail.com>


Stanley Lucas
www.solutionshaiti.blogspot.com
Mwen se echantiyon yon ras kap boujonnen, men ki poko donnen
Si vous voulez vous faire des ennemis, essayer de changer les choses.
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled
by evil men. Plato

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