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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Before you send an angry letter, put it in a drawer overnight. That's the advice thousands of partners have given young lawyers. Of course, email made that advice more difficult to stick to (it's just too easy to hit send) and now, it seems, Twitter is further chipping away at this old adage. When Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley thought the author of a New York Times story about...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Correction : We initially said Gregg Hartley is a lawyer. He is not. He's a lobbyist, and the post is updated to reflect as much. Before you send an angry letter, put it in a drawer overnight. That's the advice thousands of partners have given young lawyers. Of course, email made that advice more difficult to stick to (it's just too easy to hit send) and now, it seems, Twitter is further chipping...
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SOCIALIST BANNER (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the pages of The New York Times we read " Several times a year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United States from his home in Equatorial Guinea, on his way to his $35 million estate in Malibu, Calif., his fleet of luxury cars, his speedboats and private jet. And he is always let into the country.The nation’s doors are open to Mr. Obiang, the forest and agriculture...
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Law.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn't like a critical New York Times story on one of the firm's biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea. So he's hitting back against the reporter using an unusual vehicle: his personal Twitter feed. The reporter's father, a federal judge, presided over a high-profile case involving Equatorial Guinea. Hartley acknowledged that he hadn't verified the...
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The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn't like a critical New York Times story this week on one of the firm's biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea. So he's hitting back against the reporter, Ian Urbina, using an unusual vehicle: His...
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AAEA Hollywood (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Holly Wood Teodoro Nguema Obiang, left, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, has a $35 million estate in Malibu, California overlooking the Malibu Pier (pictured below). He also has a fleet of luxury cars, speedboats and a private jet. Hey Ted? Please allow AAEA-Hollywood use your estate as an office/residence when you are not there. We are environmentalists and we promise to be good stewards....
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A tipster, who works on Rodeo Drive, says Teodoro Nguema Obiang, the Ferrari-driving big spender who plunders Equatorial Guinea’s oil wealth is dating a family member and just dropped $70,000 in one store on clothes for her. The insider, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of ending up in the infamous Black Beach prison in Equatorial Guinea, said Obiang regularly spends up to $200,000 in...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A tipster, who works on Rodeo Drive, says Teodoro Nguema Obiang, the Ferrari-driving big spender who plunders Equatorial Guinea's oil wealth is dating a family member and just dropped $70,000 in one...
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Taint of Corruption Is No Barrier to U.S. Visa The nation’s doors are open to Mr. Obiang, the forest and agriculture minister of Equatorial Guinea and the son of its president, even though federal law enforcement officials believe that “most if not all” of his wealth comes from corruption related to the extensive oil and gas reserves discovered more than a decade and a half ago off...
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PSD Blog - World Bank Group (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
IFC announced yesterday that it will issue a $43m local currency bond in Central Africa, a first for the World Bank institution, and also a first for a non-local financial institution. This is IFC's second local currency bond in Sub-Saharan Africa, following its issuance of a West African Kola Bond in late 2006: The 20 billion Central African francs ($43 million equivalent), five-year tenor bond will...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The New York Times reported on the political machinations that allow the son of Equatorial Guinean dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to move freely in the US. Here's what they didn't tell you...
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It will be interesting to see if the State Department, which by order of a presidential proclamation and act of congress is required to bar corrupt foreign officials from American territory, will finally take action on Teodoro Nguema Obiang. As I reported here yesterday, the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have compiled a laundry list of gross misconduct on Obiang,...
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Malaria Matters (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
… can buy a $35 million estate in Malibu, California, a fleet of luxury cars, speedboats and a private jet, according to the New York Times. What does it buy for the poor, malaria stricken people of Equatorial Guinea? “… despite a federal law and a presidential proclamation that prohibit corrupt foreign officials and their families [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Teodoro Nguema Obiang enters the country easily, although officials suspect that his wealth comes from corruption tied to his father’s regime in Equatorial Guinea.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
HOUSTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dresser-Rand Group Inc. ("Dresser-Rand" or the "Company") (NYSE: DRC), a global supplier of rotating equipment and aftermarket parts and services, announced today that it will supply advanced turbomachinery for SBM Offshore (SBM) floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined for Noble Energy's Aseng Field offshore...
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