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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Not law but interesting - Senator Obama, in Kenya, gets bribe money back for TV crews
From the Chicago Sun-Times this morning. Some quotes:
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Swamped by thousands of Kenyan fans at the memorial to victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing here, Barack Obama also pressured the Kenyan government Friday to refund what he said was shakedown money two Chicago TV crews were forced to pay at the airport to get their equipment out of customs.On Friday night, Obama foreign affairs adviser Mark Lippert showed up at the hotel where Obama and the traveling press were staying with wads of cash in brown envelopes --one for CBS2 Chicago with $1,000 and another of about 59,000 Kenyan shillings, about $800 to the Chicago based Media Process Group, which is taping Obama's Africa travels. * * *
Obama's day started with a meeting with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and part of the conversation the Illinois Democrat -- whose father was a Kenyan -- had with the president were blunt comments about corruption.
"We were fairly out front about the importance of reducing corruption and crime in this country if Kenya wants to see significant economic development,'' said Obama, who will deliver a speech on government corruption in the coming days.
As an example, Obama told Kibaki that demands he considered bribes were made of Chicago TV crews flying to Kenya to cover his visit. * * *
"We got jacked up for $1,000 back there," he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 26, 2006 10:22 AM
Posted to General News