OMAHA, Neb. -- Omaha, Nebraska – An attorney has filed a complaint with the FBI alleging that the owner of a Virgin Islands telecommunications providers National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) and its affiliate the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC) have engaged in corruption and that Attorney General Eric Holder is complicit in delaying the arrest of public officials involved in this corruption. The complaint also charges Holder with witness intimidation.

The FBI complaint has been filed by attorney John Raynor of Omaha, Neb. relating to the aftermath of a FBI criminal investigation first opened in 2009 regarding alleged financial irregularities committed by CFC and RTFC. This investigation originally centered upon allegations that CFC obtained more than $4 billion in federal funds using false financial statements. According to a 2012 article in The Daily Caller, an investigation into the false claims has since showed that CFC and RTFC paid more than $20 million in bribes to corrupt political leaders and their appointees.

Raynor however alleges that the DOJ itself has delayed bringing those responsible to justice. Holder stymied the arrests of current and former public officials for accepting bribes connected with the bankruptcy of a Virgin Islands telecommunications company, the complaint charges, and by doing so, the attorney general willfully allowed residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands to be marginalized and subjected to corrupt governance.

Pursuant to the complaint, an FBI agent – identified only as “Unknown FBI Agent No. 1” in the complaint – objected to a stand-down decision in June 2012 arguing that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested with only circumstantial evidence; while direct evidence in the Virgin Islands case supports making arrests. The 2012 deployment was the first of four different FBI deployments on this case in the Virgin Islands.

“In the case of his inaction, the Attorney General is marginalizing the citizens, mostly non-white minorities, that call the Virgin Islands home,” Raynor said. “Holder, by his inaction, has trampled upon the rights of minorities to honest services from their public servants.”

The Daily Caller's investigation prompted U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa to ask the DOJ for an explanation and a briefing of his staff. The DOJ denied the article’s allegations. Raynor’s complaint cites this denial, which is very similar to the DOJ’s denial regarding Operation Fast and Furious, as the reason for delay. Raynor claims the DOJ is postponing the arrests until Holder’s upcoming resignation as Attorney General to prevent Holder from being held accountable.

“Agents have been deployed four times in the Virgin Islands to make arrests over the past two years but have never been given the green light,” Raynor said. “By delaying the arrests, Holder not only continues to subject the residents of the Virgin Islands to a corrupt government, but he wastes taxpayer dollars by paying for repeated deployments of government agents.”

Allegedly, agents have been deployed for so long that the DOJ has had to pay for visits by the agents’ spouses, the complaint alleges.

Another accusation in Raynor’s complaint against Holder relates to witness intimidation. At the center of the accusation is Attorney William Sessions, a former judge and former FBI director. Despite having acknowledged the case as a “manifest injustice,” Sessions, in 2012, relayed an intimidating message from Holder to Jeffrey Prosser, who was a key witness in the case. Prosser was ordered to refrain from further contact with a Congressional committee that was looking into the case. Prosser and others were named in The Daily Caller article and claim they are being prevented from revealing the names of the allegedly bribed prosecutors well as other relevant information to a congressional committee.

In his complaint, Raynor included a Persons of Interest list that included:

Special agent Carlos Cases, who is responsible for all deployments of special agents made after February 2013;

District Judge Curtis V. Gomez, whom Raynor said has held records about the investigation under seal; and

Ronald C. Machen, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who was responsible for turning and debriefing the allegedly bribed and compromised prosecutors referred to in the Daily Caller Article.

Raynor cited the sealed records (records submitted by the DOJ) regarding the sentencing of Former V.I. Senator, Alvin L. Williams, Jr., as evidence which supports his complaint.

Raynor also filed the complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to trigger an investigation of possible Hatch Act violations.

Raynor points out that this is the sort of behavior from Holder and the DOJ outlined in the recently released book Obama's Enforcer. The book is a catalog of government lawlessness with tales of mischief, corruption and abuse of power where authors Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund document the rank lawlessness that has saturated Eric Holder’s Justice Department, and thus, the Obama presidency. Von Spakovsky and Fund’s book released June 10. It details the radical nest that the Justice Department has become.


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Press Contacts:

John Raynor

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additional information:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/09/u-s-virgin-islands-sena...

http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/09/virgin-islands-governors-chief-of-staff-resigns-after-seeking-favorable-tax-breaks/

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/16/bag-man-revealed-in-virgin-islands-bribery-scandal/

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/06/09/obamas-enforcer/


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