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...appear in the same sentence all too often. Until now. Residents of Winthrop House have recently experienced a number of mini-fires in the mulch beds lining Standish courtyard, and while the exact cause of the fires is unknown, unextinguished cigarette butts are high on the suspect list. Two small conflagrations have been witnessed in the same mulch bed outside Winthrop’s E-entryway in the past month. The scene of the (alleged) crime is in a prime location for smokers to take a few drags, says amateur firefighter Alexandra M. Fallows ’08, who extinguished...
...Past scandals? Yes, Alem?n has a few. In fact, he's currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for embezzling and laundering some $100 million from the coffers of the second poorest nation in the hemisphere. Transparency International awarded him the dubious distinction of including him in its list of the World's Ten Most Corrupt leaders of all time. (To his credit, he only ranked ninth, ahead of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who stole a paltry $80 million...
...paid $1.7 million to Colombia's paramilitary groups. The company said it had made the payments to protect its employees, but about half of the money was paid after the paramilitary federation in question, the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, had been placed on Washington's list of foreign terrorist organizations in September...
...According to court documents filed in the case, Chiquita executives were aware of the inclusion of the AUC on the the U.S. list of foreign terror organizations, and debated whether they should continue with the payments. The documents show that the company consulted with a lawyer who, in a February 2003 e-mail stated unequivocally: "Bottom line: CANNOT MAKE THE PAYMENT...
...Extraditions are unlikely, although the Justice Department acknowledges that the investigation into Chiquita's payments to the AUC is ongoing - its focus, a DOJ official indicates, may now be on individual company executives on a list of 10 "relevant persons" identified only by letters of the alphabet in the documents filed by the Department in the U.S. District Court in Washington...