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Gopher
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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: Pinochet's Daughter Seeks Asylum in the U.S... |
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Hard times befalling the Pinochet clan...
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- U.S. officials took into custody the elder daughter of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet at a Washington-area airport Wednesday because of an arrest warrant in Chile.
The Chilean government said Lucia Pinochet had requested asylum in Washington.
U.S. government spokesmen in Washington would not comment on the asylum report, but Chilean Interior Minister Francisco Vidal said U.S. Ambassador Craig Kelly informed his government of the request.
Lucia Pinochet has been indicted by a Chilean judge on tax evasion and false passport charges, Chilean and U.S. officials said.
She was taken into custody after she got off a plane in the U.S. from Argentina. The plane landed at Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, about 7 a.m.
"We are interviewing her," said Suzanne Trevino, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. While Pinochet was being detained, she was not under arrest.
Son releases letter from Lucia Pinchet
Under normal procedures, a person who tries to enter the U.S. and is detained by customs is entitled to an admissibility interview.
"If they are not going to be admitted into the U.S., then they would be put on a flight back to the country that they originated in," Trevino said.
Lucia Pinochet "was the target of an international arrest warrant issued by a Chilean judge" said Chilean presidential spokesman Osvaldo Puccio, in Santiago.
At the State Department, spokesman Sean McCormack the interviewing of Pinochet was continuing.
Asked by a reporter whether the United States has special policies on extradition for children of former dictators, McCormack said the issue in this case are the arrest warrants, not ancestry.
In Santiago, Rodrigo Garcia Pinochet, the son of Lucia Pinochet, who accompanied his mother on the first leg of her flight to Washington-- a land trip to Argentina, sent to the Santiago daily newspaper La Segunda what he said was a letter from his mother.
In the letter she says that she is "convinced that in this case they are not trying to determine the source of my father's funds, but some people aim at defaming each and every member of my family."
She said she tried to talk to the judge in the case before traveling, but he would not receive her. "As I never received an answer to my request for a meeting and I was never formally notified of the measures the judge would take, I traveled on January 22nd."
"Once I get back, I will be able to clarify any doubts," the text reads. It mentions no date for the return.
In the letter Lucia Pinochet denies any wrongdoing. Calling her assets modest, she said she earned them "with my personal effort and dedication, always acting in a correct manner."
Scandal and taxes
Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker said he ordered his country's consul in Washington, Felipe Cousino, to try to interview Lucia Pinochet.
He said she apparently has three alternatives-- to have U.S. authorities send her back to the country from which she arrived, Argentina; to voluntarily return to Chile and appear in court; or go back to Argentina by herself,"which would open the way for an extradition request by Chile."
Walker said "the government has no recommendation to make on this. Our interest is that the judicial resolution be obeyed."
The case stems from a scandal that erupted in Washington itself.
Lucia Pinochet and several members of her family are implicated in a scandal involving the now-defunct Riggs Bank of Washington. The bank provided diplomatic banking services for decades until a Senate investigation found irregularities in its operations.
Congressional investigators alleged that Gen. Pinochet worked with bank managers to set up phony offshore companies to hide the existence of about $8 million (euro6.51 million) at the bank.
A subsequent judicial investigation in Chile determined that Pinochet had deposited as much as $28 million (euro22.78 million) in accounts in several countries.
Last year, Gen. Pinochet issued a statement denying any wrongdoing and claiming his advisers had paid all of his outstanding taxes.
Also indicted by Judge Carlos Cerda in the case were Pinochet's wife, also named Lucia, and his adult children Veronica, Jacqueline and Marco Antonio. Charges were also filed against Marco Antonio's wife and a lawyer and a secretary for Pinochet. They're all free on bail.
Pinochet's older son, Augusto, was charged only with using a false passport.
Investigators say the defendants together evaded $2.05 (euro1.67) million in taxes. |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/25/chile.pinochet.ap/index.html
Preemptive strike: Igotthisguitar: if you're going to post more nonsense on this thread, I guess I can't stop you, but dammit, man, if you are, then please don't post it in such a way that everybody must continually scroll left and right just to read the post. It's terribly annoying. I would've posted this info on the "Pinochet Arrested" thread but for that... |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: Re: Pinochet's Daughter Seeks Asylum in the U.S... |
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Behind the scenes old man Bush will likely throw his support behind having her asylum granted.
Kissinger naturally as well too. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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Great. I'll make a deal with you, OK?
If you can keep all of your posts like this, without changing the parameters of the page, then I won't use "the Igotthisguitar postulate." I'll even admit that I can admire someone like you who keeps going even when others continually tell him he's a moron. |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe Pinochet's daughter could make a name for herself by recounting her family's story in novel form in the magic-realism style of GG Marquez.
Then they could make a movie and it could star Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep...
Woah! Anybody else just get a wicked deja vu feeling?  |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher to igotthisguitar wrote: |
Great. I'll make a deal with you, OK?
If you can keep all of your posts like this, without changing the parameters of the page, then I won't use "the Igotthisguitar postulate." I'll even admit that I can admire someone like you who keeps going even when others continually tell him he's a moron. |
And if you can do what Gopher asks as well as leaving out all the deliberately wierd, annoying and superfluous text formats and spacings, I'll even stop calling you a moron and go back to ignoring you.
It'd be a win-win situation (actually win-win-win), you'd be a fool not to accept. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| Gopher to igotthisguitar wrote: |
Great. I'll make a deal with you, OK?
If you can keep all of your posts like this, without changing the parameters of the page, then I won't use "the Igotthisguitar postulate." I'll even admit that I can admire someone like you who keeps going even when others continually tell him he's a moron. |
And if you can do what Gopher asks as well leaving out all the deliberately wierd and superfluous text formats and spacings, I'll even stop calling you a moron and go back to ignoring you.
It'd be a win-win situation (actually win-win-win). |
Yeah, and you'd also have to explain why you associated "the twisted evil" icon with Clinton's charity work on HIV/AIDS. It was simply not an appropriate emotional response. Are you schitzophrenic? |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Personally, I could live without knowing the answer to igotthisguitar's choice of emoticons in any given post... I had pretty much assumed long ago that it was a completely random selection. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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OK, fine. Let's leave that condition off the table.
No more long-sided posts where we have to scroll and no more wierd emoticon responses and in exchange we don't call him an idiot anymore. Indeed, we'll tolerate him without comment.
Is it a deal Igotthisguitar? |
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Gopher
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been sent back to Argentina, two days after she arrived in the United States after fleeing tax charges in Chile, a U.S. Homeland Security official said.
Shortly after withdrawing her request for political asylum in the United States, Lucia Pinochet, 60, was sent to Argentina -- the last country she was in before coming to the United States.
"Lucia Pinochet is no longer in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security. She is returning, this evening, to the country of her last departure," said Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the department.
She had been held at the Arlington County detention facility, where her son met with her Friday evening.
There was no immediate word on when, or if, Lucia Pinochet planned to return to Chile, where she is wanted for allegedly evading thousands of dollars in taxes and using a false passport.
She and other family members were indicted Monday on charges of tax fraud, including failing to declare bank accounts overseas, and using false passports.
The tax fraud charges involve about $900,000. The government alleges that the Pinochet family helped hide the money.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials questioned Pinochet Wednesday after she arrived at Washington-Dulles International Airport from Argentina.
She was transferred Thursday to the custody of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
Besides Lucia Pinochet, those facing similar charges include three of her siblings -- Marco Antonio, Jacqueline and Veronica Pinochet; Augusto Pinochet's wife, Lucia Hiriart; a daughter-in-law; and Pinochet's personal secretary.
In addition, Pinochet's eldest son, Augusto, faces passport charges, while Marco Antonio Pinochet's wife, Monica Ananias, and Pinochet's personal secretary, Oscar Aitken, are charged with failing to declare a foreign bank account.
Pinochet, 90, is accused of stashing $27 million in bank accounts abroad during his 17-year rule. Hiriart already has been charged as an accomplice to tax evasion on her husband's behalf.
The general, who came to power in a U.S.-backed coup in 1973, is free. His attorneys argue he is too ill to stand trial on charges of financial crimes and human rights abuses. |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/28/chile.pinochet/index.html |
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