Quirino con US$1 billón: lo relacionan con Mejía

Formosano2000 · #1 04-08-2005, 12:09 PM

Sounds like somebody's illicit fortunes tops that of the Domnican Central Bank, whose reserve is far short of one billion US$ !

Will we see somebody follow the footsteps of Noriega (former Panamanian leader incarcerated in the US on drug trafficking charges) ??

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Quirino con US$1 billón: lo relacionan con Mejía

A Quirino lo grabaron transando cientos kgs de coca

SANTO DOMINGO. John O´Donnell, abogado del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, afirma que la fortuna que posee el extraditado ex capitán del Ejército Nacional Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo es de US$1,000 millones. Mientras que Les Owen, director del Centro Correccional Metropolitano de Nueva York, donde está encarcelado el presunto capo, dice que la fortuna incluye bienes como helicópteros, carros, hoteles. "Él tiene vastos recursos. El tenía una conexión directa con el ex presidente de la República Dominicana", dijo Owen en una audiencia preliminar en Nueva York, cuya transcrpción fue publicada por el periódico Diario@Diario

juanita · #2 04-08-2005, 12:20 PM

Also check out this newspaper, where they connect Quirino a Hipolito!
http://www.diariohorizonte.com/

"e 'pa dentro que va"!

Pib · #3 04-08-2005, 02:45 PM

Let me see what we learnt from the past...

When Peña Gómez' involvement with drug traficking was "suggested" by two ex-DEA agents the PRD, then in power, started the wailing and gnashing of teeth, and with much fanfarre announced that the government would hire lawyers in the US to sue the two ex-DEA agents and "clean the memory" of their beloved Peña. What ever came to that?

Expect the same again.

samiam · #4 04-08-2005, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pib

Let me see what we learnt from the past...

When Peña Gómez' involvement with drug traficking was "suggested" by two ex-DEA agents the PRD, then in power, started the wailing and gnashing of teeth, and with much fanfarre announced that the government would hire lawyers in the US to sue the two ex-DEA agents and "clean the memory" of their beloved Peña. What ever came to that?

Expect the same again.

One thing I've learned, is that the PRD is to drug trafficking as Presidente is to beer. A means to an end.

As far as their beloved Peña Gomez, I wouldnt want to know what would have happened to the DR with that guy in power.

Dolores · #5 04-08-2005, 06:35 PM

From DR1 Daily News, Friday, 8 April 2005:

Former President mentioned in NY case
New York District Judge Gerard E. Lynch declined to rule on the petition for change in the solitary confinement (SHU) at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York of arrested former Dominican army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo. He said he would leave the decision up to the Judge Kimba Woods who has been in charge of the case.
Quirino Ernesto Paulino's lawyers had requested a change to regular prison status. But the MCC prison facility director, Les Owen said that Paulino was not an ordinary prisoner.
During the hearing, Les Owen argued against the change of status and told the judge that Paulino was given special status in the jail based on his personal fortune, estimated at US$1 billion that includes helicopters, cars and hotels.
Furthermore, he stated in court that Paulino had a direct connection with the former President of the Republic and mentioned that it was the then President himself, according to his reports, who had reincorporated Paulino into the army. Owen also linked Paulino to the director of a jail who was arrested in a major drug bust. In his recommendations to maintain the solitary confinement status, he cautions that Paulino would be capable of giving the jail serious problems, mentions the possibility of an escape.
The Quirino Paulino case vs. the United States government is heard at the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. John O'Donnell, assistant lawyer, explained to Judge Lynch that Paulino was accused of being the head of an important and large drug smuggling organization that had imported tons of cocaine to the US, and that two of the shipments, of which they have two taped conversations regarding a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, had been stolen from another smuggler in New York.
For more background on the case, see dr1 news archives at http://dr1.com/news/2005/ or
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/02/04/drug.shtml and
http://www.diariohorizonte.com/view/...d=634&zoneid=9

Dolores · #6 04-08-2005, 06:40 PM

Also note that Hernani Salazar has sued lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) for libel in related him to the drug smuggling cases being heard in the US. This has given the controversial and very vocal lawyer, and former director of the National Drug Council, green light to dig into the case. So expect lots of revelations once the case is aired in mid May.

Rick Snyder · #7 04-13-2005, 08:25 PM

The editorial in Listin Diario today was interesting,
( http://www.listindiario.com.do/cuerpos/editorial.htm ), which brings to me some questions that I consider to be very important and want to ask of our readers. Especially those that are Dominican:

1.Do you believe ex presidente Hipólito Mejía was connected to Quirino Ernesto Paulino and if so how deeply?

2.Do you believe this will come out in its entirety to the public?

3.What is your opinion as to the effect this will have on the PRD political party?

4.How many of the rats of that political party will jump ship if they see the ship sinking?

5.Is this the start of a more accountable government?

Dolores · #8 04-13-2005, 08:43 PM

1.Do you believe ex presidente Hipólito Mejía was connected to Quirino Ernesto Paulino and if so how deeply?

A photo of Quirino and Sergio Grullon, the brother in law of President Mejia and his Secretary of the Presidency, was published in the press.

There is another photo of Mejia that has been published in the press where the President is seen with the beneficiary of a millionaire loan that now the US justice is incriminating in the Quirino-related drug scandal.

Mejia has been signaled by his former chief of staff (Soto Jimenez) as reponsible for the last promotion of Quirino, shortly before his leaving office.

2.Do you believe this will come out in its entirety to the public?

The fact that Hernani Salazar sued Vincho Castillo can only help. Also the case is being heard in the US, and thus lots of the case is public, and politics have less interference in that court (although politics may have to do if a former President is involved).

3.What is your opinion as to the effect this will have on the PRD political party?

Not much. The PRD has somewhat distanced itself from the PPH -- Hipolito and supporters/beneficiaries.

4.How many of the rats of that political party will jump ship if they see the ship sinking?
The PRD has many life rafts on board.

5.Is this the start of a more accountable government?
One would hope for this, but this is not about corruption as much as about getting involved in drug trafficking, the reason why this case is being heard in the US.

samiam · #9 04-14-2005, 12:37 PM

Rumor today is that then Leonel campaign manager Francisco Javier Garcia, now minister of industry, received lots of founds from Quirino for the 2004 elections.
So much, that Quirino's lawyer, on Cesar Medinas show this week said that his client never thought he would be treated like this with this government and obviously then tried not to say more or change what he started to say at first. Apparently they are saving the juiciest stuff for last.
This is better than a Brazilian soap opera!!
Though unlikely, I'd love to see them all being called, PRD next to PLD. Now more than before one can appreciate they are all fundamentally the same.

Rick Snyder · #10 04-14-2005, 01:47 PM

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Quote by Dolores:
Not much. The PRD has somewhat distanced itself from the PPH -- Hipolito and supporters/beneficiaries.

Dolores I must then ask you if this article that is in today’s Listin Diario,
( http://www.listindiario.com.do/cuerp...blica/rep5.htm ), should in reality be PPH in place of the letters PRD? It says the PRD is ready to defend Mejía and Sanchez Baret. According to the article all 365 PRD members present at the meeting last night voted for the defense of these two idiots. As an American I am having a difficult time understanding how there seems to be a political party within a political party and with such adverse ideas. It was my understanding that this is why De Camps started the PRSD. Is the PRD in fact being run completely by the PPH faction? From what I read and hear this is the case so I once again ask;

My quote from post # 7:

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3.What is your opinion as to the effect this will have on the PRD political party?