There's more Citgo corruption around the real estate industry in Miami, according to Venezuela's English translation of El Universal, quoting German news service DPA, citing El Nuevo Herald of Miami. Two Citgo officials got some very large uhhhh commissions, for selling some Venezuelan state property in Miami. Very very very large commissions.
Uh huh.
Nice work if you can get it.
As we well know from this item here, the wealthy cronies of Hugo Chavez are more than a little fond of hanging out in what they consider the Tierra de los Escualidos. And unlike the escualidos they so disdain, they prefer the haunts and lairs of Flash-N-Trash Miami, not Calle Ocho. Val's wife has noted that they, and their voracious appetite for Miami real estate, are in at least some part the reason why Miami realtors named Hugo Chavez the realtor of the year.
El Universal reports:
At least two Venezuelan officials received in Miami "questionable payments" from a realtor in Florida to sell a building property of the Venezuelan state, a front-page article in "The New Herald" disclosed Tuesday, as quoted by DPA.
Recipients, according to the newspaper, were Fadel Muci, senior advisor to Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of oil-state holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa), and William Grillet, then administrative executive office of the Bank for Economic and Social Development (Bandes.)
Building 11101, located in the Miami financial district, Brickel Avenue, was property of Bandes, the bank of the Venezuelan government.
During an affidavit taken at a Miami state court, Ray Barreth, the head of realtor Barreth Business Group (BBG), "acknowledged payment of about USD 1.4 million to Muci for lobbying in Venezuela and additional steps to make BBG be chosen in 2004 as middleman for the sale of the building," the newspaper stated.
The rest of the story is here.
My remaining question is: If these Chavista Communists hate the U.S. so much, why do they keep coming to Miami?
Posted by Mora at August 30, 2005 03:50 PM |
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Because they, like all other human beings are inherently capitalist. The crap they preach about caring for the poor is only a ploy to win the hearts and minds of the masses in their own country, as well as the liberals in this country. It's only a matter of time before their hippocracy is exposed and the world sees them (Chavez and his cronies) for what they really are.
Posted by: Tremenda Trigueña at August 31, 2005 12:40 AM