Manatt strikes again

Published: Thursday
July 15, 2010 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

Prime Minister Bruce Golding. – Ricardo Makyn/Staff PhotographerEdmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
THE MANATT, Phelps & Phillips saga has been brought back to life with news surfacing yesterday, by way of United States publication AM Law Daily, that the law firm was paid an additional US$15,000 by local attorney-at-law Harold Brady on March 19 this year.
The money was reportedly disbursed a month after Manatt claimed it had severed ties with the Jamaican Government.
The latest development has strengthened the resolve of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that nothing less than a commission of enquiry can unearth the facts in the Manatt maze.
“If we are to bring closure to this question, and if we are to be able to chart an effective path to a different set of governance structures with different levels of accountability, and if we are to revive public trust, then the Government cannot do anything less than appoint a full commission of enquiry,” declared Dr Peter Phillips, chairman of the PNP’s communication commission.
Face the reality
Phillips told The Gleaner yesterday that the Opposition would continue to press for an effective response from the Government.
“The Government just needs to simply face the reality that there is going to be a continuing insistence by not only the Opposition, but by many other civic organisations who are going to be insisting that closure be brought to this issue,” he said.
When contacted for a response, Information Minister Daryl Vaz said he was in a meeting. Subsequent calls to his cellphone went to voice mail.
According to the AM Law Daily, in a new Foreign Agents Regis-tration Act (FARA) filing with the US Justice Department, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips reported that it got US$15,000 more for lobbying work done on behalf of the Government of Jamaica.
AM Law Daily reported that, in a 24-page supplemental filing dated June 30, 2010, the activities performed under the firm’s agreement with Jamaica included discussions with Molly Warlow, director of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, about extradition issues.
Manatt lawyers met with Warlow on December 17, 2009 to discuss “extradition treaty process requirements”, the filing stated.
The US law firm continues to distance itself from claims that it was hired by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to lobby US government officials on the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition dispute.
“It’s important to note that the reason the filing has no mention of anything done for Christopher Coke is that Manatt did not represent Mr Coke, and we were not retained to lobby the US government in connection with the Coke matter,” wrote Manatt spokesman, Lawrence Martinez, in an email response to the AM Law Daily.
In May, under pressure from civil society and sector groups to resign as a result of his handling of the Manatt and Dudus extradition issues, a seemingly remorseful Prime Minister Bruce Golding apologised to Jamaicans for how the “entire affair” was dealt with.
Coke has since been extradited to the US, after bloody gun battles that left more that 70 people dead.
Golding, who is leader of the JLP had also conceded that he should have divulged his party’s initiative to engage the services of Manatt, when he denied in Parliament that the Government had engaged the US law firm.
In September last year, the JLP paid Manatt US$50,000 for its lobbying effort.
Manatt’s initial FARA filing suggested that its contract with the Jamaican Government attracted a sum of US$400,000 over a one-year period.
However, Golding has repeatedly shot down claims that Manatt was hired by the Jamaican Government.
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Someone left this comment late lastnight and I decided to find out whats going on . I wont be supporting Roshan Shaw and his quest for attention because he is possessed.

Anonymous said…

”Yep dat bwoy is an evil sociopath and narcissistic! That’s how they all are. But now unnu no see? BESS FM (100.1FM) in Jamaica, is owned by his father Tony Shaw. Which is possibly what he is talking about Mr. Iyan Lyn being fired from Radio. I think it was said somewhere that Mr. Lyn was going to start a radio show! and that is the damn connection to di bwoy, so Mr. Lyn not gay, him just a get a likkle massage fi appease di bwoy, so that him can get him radio show going, a watta gwan yah?. Mr. Lyn next time you must do propa propa research. Him father dont look nutten like Audley Shaw. Is now dis pikney mekhim family shame!!!!!!!! But peeple listem to mi is how unnu raise unnu pikney! mek dem feel dem is entitled to everyting from dem likkle and him we do anything fi get it!!!! and dis is watta gwawn Mi gawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 15, 2010 4:23 AM

Anonymous said…

jus a likkle correction I stand to be corrected on the relationship between Mr. tony shaw of bess fm 100 and dis fool fool fraudster / sociopath / con bwoy / an every thing else. But it seems too close fi comfort. Sorry fi out unnu fammily likedat but is him dont want to stop chat so di link mek. ”

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Board, Management and Broadcast Team St. Elizabeth business man Tony Shaw is Chairman and Managing Director of BESS 100 FM. Board members’ are Patrick Dallas, Bruce Stephens,Earl Powell and Natalia Long. While Radio Consultant Natalia Long, is responsible for station development.

* Btw , the pic up top him claim is the Shaw residence in Flordia*

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Maddam fram Dunkirk all wid her big belly shi a tief and a run from police and run under car go hide. But it does not stop dere …. dem peopel yah all pool together fi buy a big van fi put dem tiefings inna! And dem not only confine to London but dem all have a schedule whe dem go ouuta town go tief a di outlet dem!

Dere needs to be sme serious sociological research on this phenomenon massive! Because there is a distinctive link between selling batty, hype liefstyle and tiefing and is di so call bad man dem fram di ghetto a tek di spotlight wid dis ting ere. What get to mi is dat dem a go BOTh ways a fool up di gyal pickney dem. So mi ago put some a dem pan blast!

QUESTION – WHAT DID A GWAAN DUNG A DUNG KIRK INNA DI late 80’s tru to di 90’s?

IT IS CLEAR THAT DI BAD MAN DEM DID A SELL DI LIKKLE YUTE DEM BATTY TO DI ELITE BATTY MAN A JAMAICA!!!!!! And di rass madda dem dung a DUNKIRK SI DUNG A WATCH DEM PICKNEY BATTY GO TO DI HIGHEST BIDDER BECAUSE DEM WANT MONEY – OR DEM CYAAH AFFORD FI SEND DEM TO SCHOOL DEMSELF.

A FEW OF DEM ALL GET SUPPORTED TRHU HIGH SCHOOL AND DEM DID BRIGHT TO – GO ALL DI WAY A UWI!!!!!!!!!!! YES MI A TALK UP DI TINGSSS!! And dem go UWI and gwaan like dem is di most GYALLLISS!!!!! NOBODY WUDDA NEVA SUSPECT DEMMMM!! CAUSE DEM ITCH FI EVERY FRACK TAIL AND HAVE UP ALL STEADY WOMAN, WHILE DEM A DO DEM TING ON DI LOW.

HOW IS IT DAT FAMILIES WHE NUH HAVE NO MONEY SEE DEM SON A GO A UNIVERSITY AND A LIVE PON CAMPUS AND KNOW SEH DEM NUH CONTRIBUTE NOT EVEN ONE CENT – LIVE WID DEMSELF!

MI A TELL OONU WOMAN and YOUNG GIRLS – OPEN UP ONNU EYESSSSS!!!! WHEN MAN A SEH DEM HAVE GODFATHERS AND UNCLE AND COUSIN WHE TOOOOO TOO KIND FI A PAY ALL DEM FEE DEH SO – ASK YUHSLEF WHE DEM DROP IN. WHEN A MAN A HIDE WHE HIM COME FROM – TEK NOTES!! DI GODFATHER AND UNCLE NAME DEM WHE COME IN FI DA DUNKIRK FILE HEAVYYYYYYYYYY!!!! MI WANT KNOW A WHAT REALLY DID A GWAAN DUNG A DUNKIRK AND IF IT STILL A GWAAN?!! CAUSE SOME A DEM DEH A LONDON NOW AND DEM NO LONGER IN DI CLOSET. BUT OONU FI STOP TRY FOOL GOOD GOOD GYAL PICKNEY SEH OONU STRAIGHT. IS A PITTY OONU WAS USED BUT THAT IS NO REASON FI A USE PEOPLE GYAL PICKNEY. THIS IS A WARNING. BREAK UP ONU FOLLY GROUND.

DIS IS RASSCLAATT SIRRYUSSS

****SED HOW MI GET DI EMAIL A SO MI A GO DASHIT OUT****

GARY U HAVE BEEN CHOO DI FIRE, DI FLOOD , DI RAIN N DI —–…. UR STILL ALIVE MY FRIEND!