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Subject: JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD
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JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST
RICHARD PERLE, BILL CLINTON, TERRY MCAULIFFE AND WILLIAM COHEN OVER THEIR
ROLES IN GLOBAL CROSSING’S PENDING SALE
Senior
Officials’ Apparent Conflicts of Interest Must Be Thoroughly
Investigated
Hong Kong Tycoon & Chinese
Agent, Li Ka-Shing, Seeks Control of Bankrupt Telecommunications
Firm
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the
public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed formal complaints
against Defense Advisory Board Member and former Chairman Richard Perle,
former President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Committee Chairman
Terry McAuliffe and former Clinton administration Defense Secretary, and
Global Crossing board member, William S. Cohen, with the Department of
Justice, the Office of Government Ethics and the Inspectors General of the
Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The formal
complaint cites apparent violations of government ethics regulations as
well as federal laws governing prohibited conflicts of financial
interests.
Mr. Perle served as Foreign Policy Advisor during the
Presidential Campaign of George W. Bush. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld subsequently appointed Mr. Perle in 2001 as Chairman, Defense
Policy Board - a position that Mr. Perle occupied until March 27, 2003.
Mr. Perle, although no longer Chairman, remains an active Member of
Defense Policy Board. As an Advisor to Global Crossing, Mr. Perle’s fee,
as outlined in bankruptcy proceedings, is $725,000, including an unusual
contingent payment of $600,000 if Global Crossing succeeds in finally
obtaining approval of its sale to the Chinese Company, Hutchison Whampoa.
In his March 27, 2003 resignation letter as Board Chairman to Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld, Mr. Perle reportedly claimed that he would not accept
compensation from Global Crossing. Irrespective of Mr. Perle’s claims and
reported pledges concerning remuneration, Mr. Perle clearly served the
corporate interests of Global Crossing while simultaneously acting as
Chairman of the Defense Advisory Board. Global Crossing is slated for sale
to Hong Kong billionaire and communist Chinese agent Li Ka-Shing’s
Hutchison Whampoa Corporation – the shipping conglomerate that took
control of the Panama Canal in 1999.
Judicial Watch has also
launched an investigation of Mr. Perle’s advisory role with Loral Space
and Communications, concerning accusations that the firm improperly
transferred rocket technology to China, as reported in the March 28, 2003
New York Times article, “Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of
Satellites.”
“There appears to be a lot of dirty fingerprints all
over this Global Crossing deal. Regardless of party affiliation, these
officials – both past and current -- need to be thoroughly investigated
and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if the conflicts of
interest and pocket-lining can be substantiated. If personal greed trumped
their duty to the nation’s security then they belong in prison – period,”
stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry
Klayman.
To view a copy of the complaint, click
here.
© Copyright 1997-2003, Judicial Watch,
Inc.
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