We don't need hear about your sick preference for everything bad to be hidden by quickly sweeping it under the rug and then turning a complete blind eye to it as if it never occurred. The people got their fill of that nonsense under the corrupt Christie-led PLP government. What we truly need is a great deal more sunshine from our new government....enough to fully illuminate even the dirty arse holes of the likes of you!

Michael Darville has probably already fired off a brief letter to Minnis claiming that his wife is no Dionisio D'Aguilar when it comes to cheating on the amount of customs duty that should be paid on imported goods.

I would like to know which PLP muck-a-muck owns the dilapidated Hawkins Hill Building that government has been renting for 30 plus years, and that the corrupt Christie-led PLP government renewed the leasing of for another seven-year term. We have a right to know Brent, after all, it's the people's money (our tax dollars) being used to pay the outrageously high rent for this building that has not been properly maintained by the owner (landlord). Come on Brent, we want you to do your part in helping Minnis make good on his often repeated campaign promise that the new FNM government would set the gold standard for transparency.

Now there is an out cry from the darkest part of Chicago for the White House to be demolished (preferably while Trump is in it) because it was built using slave labour. Determined not to be out done, Maxine Waters (Democrat House Rep for the darkest part of L.A.) is adamant George Washington's face on Mt. Rushmore should be re-sculpted to look like Barak Obama and then painted black. You just can't make this stuff up! It's a good thing The Tribune's Editor doesn't have a racist bone in her body otherwise we would all be labelled as racists.

We can only wonder how much this fella was able to borrow from Bank of The Bahamas on exceptionally generous conditions, e.g. no security required, "repay-what-you-can-when-you-can" basis, "restructure-when-you-want" terms, etc. etc.

all you need to know about galanis

Bahamas B2B Published 2006-08-04 20:10:34

"Galanis Was Involved in Money Scheme

Bahamas senator was involved with a Florida man who was accused of scamming investors out of $9.9-million.

A Clearwater financial consultant was indicted on federal charges that he was involved in a fraudulent investment scheme in which investors lost $9.9-million in the mid 1990s.

A federal grand jury indicted Richard M. Kubany in 2002 on charges of conspiracy and tax evasion.

Kubany, 60, was involved in the Lauriel Investment Program, a fraudulent investment scheme, from 1995-98, according to the indictment.

The program took in $9.9-million from investors starting in late 1995, with the promise of a high yield at little or no risk. Others involved in the scheme agreed to give Kubany more than $1.25-million in finder's fees for funneling investors' money into the program, the indictment charges.

But by late 1996, all the investors' money had been dissipated, including $3.1-million that went through Progressive Growth Management Limited, a Bahamian corporation created and controlled by Kubany, the indictment states.

The indictment indicates a lawyer from Los Angeles, an accountant from Phoenix and another man from Colorado also were involved. It does not say how many investors lost money in the scheme or where they lived.

Kubany and those men, along with Progressive and Lauriel, are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the federal government in Arizona. That lawsuit alleges investment fraud under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Another man, current Bahamian Senator Philip Galanis, was also named as a defendant in that lawsuit.

Galanis is a former managing partner of the accounting firm Ernst & Young who was fired in 1997. He was suspected of raising money under false pretenses and diverting it for the personal use of insiders rather than for legitimate investing, according to OBNR, an Internet newsletter that follows offshore financing.

Galanis was allegedly escorted off the premises of the firm that he worked for.

Galanis was a member of parliament in the Bahamas before he stepped down in January, 2002, citing that he could not fully dedicate himself to the office, according to published reports from the Bahamas.

The money that went through the offshore account was used for, among other things, Kubany's personal expenses, the indictment states.

Kubany claimed the money he received from Progressive were loans so he wouldn't have to pay taxes, the indictment states. Kubany also is charged with not filing income tax returns for 1995 and 1996."

@John: Are you taking some potent medication or serious other drugs? Just wondering because your thought process is disjointed and disconnected in so many ways.

You really are a doofus....always unable to see the big picture for yourself! The U.S. government has the ability to print tons of money and then simultaneously sell it to others all over the world (like the Chinese government) in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, i.e. short term T-bills and, more importantly, long term T-bonds. That's how the U.S. government gets to do many things (like bailout entire industries) that our government could never do. Presumably you know there is no market for Bahamian dollars outside of the Bahamas.......but true to form, you have once again failed to connect the key dots before spilling your foolish remarks.

@John: In reading between the lines you smell to high heaven of having very racist leanings my friend. You can be rest assured I won't be reading anything else you post to this website in the future. Small men with small minds are never very interesting in any event.....I will leave it for you to tickle others of your kind. Cheerio.

Repost - Of course the unemployment rate dropped - just think of the many thousands of voters that the corrupt Christie-led PLP government put on the public payroll in the run up to the last general election! 'Vote buying' using the public payroll (a/k/a bribery or election fraud) was in full gear before the general election. Certain former PLP Ministers known to have been heavily engaged in this illegal practice during the six-month period ahead of the last general election should be held accountable and responsible for the abuse of their public office and the public trust. Taxpayers have already lost millions of dollars because of this criminal conduct on the part of certain former PLP Ministers and stand to lose millions more in the future as it will take time for the new government to undo all of the costly job padding that was done throughout the civil service work force in an effort by the PLP to 'buy' the election using our tax dollars.