[PEN-L:9446] Re: Spaniard arrested in US for trading with the

[Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:56 PM 4/10/97 -0700, D Shniad wrote:
>The Ottawa Citizen 		Business Page	Wednesday 9 April 1997
>
>SPANIARD INDICTED FOR DOING BUSINESS WITH CUBA
>
>MIAMI - A Spanish businessman, arrested for doing business with Cuba, was
>indicted by a U.S. grand jury for trading with the enemy, money-laundering and
>conspiracy, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday.
>	In an indictment handed down late Tuesday, Javier Ferreiro, 45, a
>Spaniard who is a resident of the Cuban capital Havana, was charged with
>eight counts of violating the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act, five counts of
>money-laundering and one count of conspiracy, said Willy Fernandez, a
>spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami.
>	Prosecutors contend Ferreiro shipped products such as ketchup, canned
>vegetables, diapers and sanitary napkins through Miami to companies shipping
>documents said were based in the Dominican Republic and Curacao but were
>actually Cuban.
>	He faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $1 million.
>[snip]

Now, let's see if I've got this right.  20 years in prison and $1 million
fine for sending ketchup, canned veggies, diapers and sanitary napkins to an
impoverished, struggling island nation, and Ollie North gets a military
pension, humungous speaking fees, and an 'attaboy Ollie' for laundering
money and shipping arms to a bunch of gun thugs, mercinaries, and assorted
other agents of U.S. imperialism so that they can overturn governments that
dare get out from under the boot of U.S. corporate exploitation.

Yup.  Sounds fair to me.  Who says you can't find justice in the U.S. today!
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