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whatever necessary to put the child in the orphanage. Mr. Bitkov signed an affidavit swearing to this conversation with Mr. Flores and it was entered into the record at the Helsinki hearing.
CICIG, the Guatemalan prosecutor, and the Russian bank VTB took the family to court for using fake documents that the Bitkovs thought were real. Igor was sentenced to 19 years in jail; Irina and Anastasia 14 years each. A month later the same judge reviewing the same offenses by two members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, handed down five-year suspended sentences and released the defendants.
CICIG’s violations of civil liberties and its Russian collusion have been public for weeks. Yet an NGO letter-writing campaign aimed at defending the U.N. body at the Helsinki hearing refused to acknowledge the horror. The letters, posted on the commission’s website—along with the Bitkov lawyers’ testimony—are notable for their similarity and their callousness toward the Russian family, who are still in jail despite a constitutional court ruling 10 day ago to release them.
Such contradictions can only be explained by following the dollars spread around to so-called human-rights groups by those who share the politics of the unelected Mr. Velásquez. One goal of these moneyed elites was to end international adoptions, and he has used his authority to influence judicial rulings to do just that. His arbitrary rule with no oversight has put fear into the hearts of law-abiding Guatemalans; he has a reputation for pressuring judges, which has increased investor uncertainty in a country that already has trouble attracting capital. He has even tried to change the constitution.
In a statement made to the Helsinki Commission hearing, Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) noted that while CICIG was “created to root-out corruption and uphold the rule of law” it “has become an extrajudicial, partial and unfair arbiter.” Its politicization, he wrote, is “unfair to all who seek a free and prosperous Guatemala.” Something to think about as those busloads of refugees arrive at the border.
https:// www.wsj.com/articles/george-soros-and-the-caravan-1525635094
Pilgrims
More pilgrims
http:// www.arabnews.com/node/1297021/saudi-arabia
More pilgrims
https:// www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mecca-hajj-pilgrims-ripped-off-by-travel-agency-fraudsters-x5blbpnjh
May Flowers Bloom in the Garden State
2 former Obummer aids running for office in New Jersey
http:// www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/05/these_obama_veterans_are_asking_nj_voters_to_retur.html