The Associated Press

A Hunterdon County businessman accused of harassment and failing to repay
investors in music-publishing ventures says he has found a way to beat the
warrants for his arrest in Hunterdon and Somerset counties.

Clark Enslin claims that an appointment as goodwill ambassador to the
Republic of Gambia gives him diplomatic immunity from the criminal case and
a civil lawsuit.

He even wrote a letter to the editor earlier this year to boast about the
protection.

But officials with the U.S. State Department and the Gambian government say
otherwise.

Lawrence Dunham, assistant chief of protocol for the State Department, said
Enslin doesn't meet the criteria to be a diplomat and will not be approved.
The State Department says it must approve foreign diplomatic appointments
for U.S. citizens.

And even if he were approved, that might not help him dodge the warrants
against him. "This appointment has no diplomatic status," said John P.
Bojang, the Gambian ambassador to the United States.

Enslin, 48, produced a set of country music recordings, "Live at Gilley's."
People who know him say he wears gold-tipped cowboy boots.

In a lawsuit filed last year, he was accused of taking $357,632 from
investors in four country music production ventures.

In January, a Superior Court judge in Hunterdon County ordered Enslin to pay
the family of the late Hugo Maimone the money.

Since April, Enslin has been wanted on charges that he sent harassing e-mail
to a relative of Maimone's who attempted to collect the money.

Authorities have not been able to find Enslin, who can be reached only
through e-mail and cellular phone.




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