Great! It is nice to have all these records. Thank you for the support. Susso >From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: MTage:Re:Mobutu's... S'thing on Babanding from same time >Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:27:56 GMT > >M. Tage/Susso, > >Remember Yaya's Boy Babanding Susso(no relation I hope?) An old story... > >--------- Forwarded message ---------- >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. > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------