| – AFCThe Government of Guyana seems to have an aptitude for dealing with the unholy.This is according to Alliance For Change Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, speaking of the recent indictment of Michael Brassington in the United States of America.The comment was made in light of Brassington’s involvement with the Government in the negotiations involving the purchase of the two Bell 206 helicopters, which have since been deemed unfit for the nature of the work for which they were intended.President Jagdeo meeting with Bernard KerikRamjattan said that there should be an investigation into other negotiations in which Brassington has been involved as it relates to the Government, and what commissions he received for his services.He also called on the administration to say whether there was any check of his credentials and credibility, whilst questioning whether any such scrutiny was done before his involvement.Michael Brassington and his brother, Paul Brassington,holesale NFL Jerseys, have both been charged with several counts of wrongdoing in the US over a recent crash of an airplane operated by their company, Platinum Jet, a private charter service provided for the elite.Earlier, US media reports claimed that a former customs agent had implicated the same Michael Brassington, whose full name is Michael Francis Brassington, as part of a ring of corrupt customs officials under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.Brassington was also the co-pilot on a drug-running Lear jet (N351WB) which was caught by DEA agents at Orlando Executive Airport in July 2000 carrying 43 pounds of heroin.The Guyanese pilot was in the news again recently, this time in his native Guyana, when he was named in a procurement scandal over the disputed purchase by the Guyana Defence Force of two antique 30-year-old helicopters from a ‘dummy’ company in Delaware.It was further discovered that Brassington’s father, also named Michael Brassington, has close business ties with one of the most notorious oligarchs in the Russian mob,NFL Jerseys Outlet, Oleg Deripaska, the “last man standing” in the Aluminium Wars in Russia during the 1990s for control of that strategic resource.Brassington’s name also surfaced in connection with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, because he had been the co-pilot on the drug-running Lear jet (N351WB) owned by Wallace Hilliard. Hilliard also owned the Venice, Florida flight school where Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi were at the time learning to fly.Ramjattan also sought to add credence to his argument of the Government dealing with “the most unholy,” by referring to Bernard Kerik.In August 2006, President Bharrat Jagdeo confirmed that Kerik’s firm would be contracted to assist in the US$20M reformation plan that Government was footing through a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.“I met with him, and he will be working with us during the post-elections period, along with the Scottish police and the British Government, in the reform process,” the president had confirmed at a media conference hosted at the Office of the President, which focused mainly on the August 8,Cheap Jerseys Online, 2006 wanton killings on the East Bank Demerara.The top leadership of the Police Force would be involved in the reform, the President said, “because what we are seeking to do is create a better Police Force and to give them greater tools to tackle these criminals.”Kerik was fined in the United State for an ethic violation,China Jerseys, and President Jagdeo told the media his government was cognizant of that, but maintained that Kerik was being hired on the basis of his remarkable experience in law enforcement.Kerik was Police Commissioner of the City of New York from 2000 to 2001, under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.In December 2004,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, President George W. Bush nominated Kerik as Secretary of Homeland Security. A week later, Kerik withdrew his nomination,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny. Subsequently, numerous allegations surfaced which led to a confirmation battle.In 2006, Kerik pleaded guilty to two unrelated ethics violations after an investigation by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, and was ordered to pay $221,000.A grand jury issued a multi-count indictment on November 8, 2007 alleging conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the Internal Revenue Service. |
