Great! It is nice to have all these records. Thank you for the support.
Susso
>From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: MTage:Re:Mobutu's... S'thing on Babanding from same time
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:27:56 GMT
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>M. Tage/Susso,
>
>Remember Yaya's Boy Babanding Susso(no relation I hope?) An old story...
>
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>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:53:29 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Nicolas A Stettler <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Saul Saidykhan <[log in to unmask]>Subject: more gambian news
>More gambian news:
>
>MIAMI (Reuter) - A Gambian millionaire who delighted Miami
>with his largesse is going to jail after a judge ruled he was
>not protected by diplomatic immunity when he tried to bribe a
>customs officer, the U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday.
> Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko, 51, pleaded guilty in March to
>offering $30,000 to a customs agent to permit the export of two
>military helicopters to Gambia without proper licenses.
> The Gambian government intervened, saying he had diplomatic
>status as a ``special adviser to a special mission to the United
>States'' to buy the helicopters.
> But District Judge Michael Moore disagreed in a ruling
>Monday. He said the Gambian government had not properly informed
>the U.S. government of Sissoko's status and the State Department
>had never authorized it.
> Moore had sentenced Sissoko to four months in jail and four
>months of house arrest. He must serve a remaining 41 days inprison.
> While awaiting his fate, Sissoko took up residence in a
>luxury apartment and managed his business empire of gold, oil,
>hotels, casinos and an airline.
> Known as a generous benefactor of the poor in Africa, his
>largesse became legendary in Miami. Sissoko gave a masseuse a
>$10,000 tip, a high school marching band $300,000, a car to a
>woman he met at an auto dealership and his a lawyer a Mercedes.Take care.
>
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