Some things are really strange with this whole story.Jane Donut wrote:Doesn't bode well for anything happening with the mongoose before 2018.
The wheels of justice grind very slowly and exceedingly fine*.
*Unless you wrangle getting pardoned for keeping a private email server containing government confidential and secret materials in your bathroom. Then you can just skip the wheels of justice and slide into the Oval Office making a mockery of the FBI and the so-called justice system.
"Man without a country" peddles international influence through tangled ties
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None of the former officials who have signed up to lobby the U.S. government for foreign interests--a list that includes presidential nominees (Bob Dole) and congressional leaders (Richard Gephardt, Dick Armey)--has a resume as offbeat as that of Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy who later tried to implicate the opponent of the president of Zimbabwe in an assassination attempt and now considers himself a "man without a country." He also had one of the richest contracts to lobby for a foreign client--though he apparently had no contacts with U.S. government officials whatsoever
According to data in the Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker, Paul Calder LeRoux, a 35-year-old citizen of Australia and South Africa, hired the spy-turned-political consultant who now operates out of Canada and paid him more than $6.5 million in 2007 and 2008. Dickens and Madson Canada, the firm that employs Ben-Menashe, disclosed that LeRoux hired them to facilitate an overseas real estate deal for vast swaths of farmland in Zimbabwe.
Wow, this guy is seriously some mastermind.
