Obama Appointee's Jet Impounded In Congo For Smuggling Gold

by safari Posted February 21, 2011 16:01:41

Related Topics: Obama, Airport, Oil, Trade

121 votes
Read all 239 opinions
Lightning Report View Results and Demographics View Demographics

Loading Demographics... Click an icon to see demographic results Display unknown and private
	A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.	90 votes	74%
	Hmmmm....	14 votes	12%
	I doubt Obama has anything to do with this	7 votes	6%
	Other comment	10 votes	8%

EXCERPTS: A private jet owned by a North Texas company has been impounded for the past 2 1/2 weeks and its passengers and crew detained by the Congolese government in central Africa, where officials say it was used to smuggle gold from rebel territories in the nation's eastern provinces.

The plane was leased by Southlake Aviation, based in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth, to a subsidiary of CAMAC International, The Dallas Morning News reported in its Sunday editions.

CAMAC company is owned by Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born Houston oil tycoon an appointee of President Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation.

The jet's passengers and crews have been detained since Feb. 3, when the jet was seized before leaving the airport in Goma, on Congo's eastern border with Rwanda. Congolese officials say the plane was loaded with about $20 million in gold and several million dollars in cash.

The passengers included Mickey Lawal, brother of the Texas oilman, and Houston diamond merchant Edward "Carlos" St. Mary, a longtime Lawal family friend, the newspaper reported.

The rest of the article including links to relative content, is found at the link below:

+34

More: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7438648....

More polls by safari

Add a comment above

Brian D3-PWCM~JLA~POTL February 22, 2011 04:43:42

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+14
obama said to judge him by the people that he sorounded himself with......Well it aint lookin so good.......
>> See Replies

Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel February 26, 2011 12:50:17

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

Very interesting. Excellent find!

reply
Gina February 26, 2011 01:00:08

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

That is part of the Stimulus package..

reply
Donnie February 24, 2011 02:48:06

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

I dont like the obama admin,He probably told his good friend that if he gets caught just dont name him,BUT if you pull it off give me my share.Let's see how this plays out in the White House.

reply
sick'n'tired February 23, 2011 23:02:57

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+1
Obama adding to his personal stash! Don't you doubt it for a minute.

reply
Doc. J February 23, 2011 02:02:37

Other comment

It's ......the Congo.

reply
citizen-cain February 23, 2011 01:03:34

I doubt Obama has anything to do with this

He's too busy buying votes.

reply
rwhit98 to citizen... February 23, 2011 02:53:33

Hahahahaha.... you are probably right!

reply
Donnie to citizen... February 24, 2011 02:40:21

Thats why he needs more Gold.

reply
Andrew February 23, 2011 00:09:52

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+2
Get Obama out in 2012.

reply
Don Wenk February 22, 2011 23:56:11

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+2
What else is new. Same ol same ol

reply
OPOA912 February 22, 2011 22:52:37

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+1
Hey 83 votes and counting. Wow, maybe there is hope for America.

reply
george February 22, 2011 21:02:24

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+4
I bet Obama is pissed about this little turn of events! Some of that gold and cash was headed for the White House!

reply
Skater62 February 22, 2011 19:28:56

Hmmmm....

+3
Birds of a feather flock together. You are judged by the company you keep.

reply
Farnsworth February 22, 2011 16:51:40

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+4
the cast of characters sound like the names used by drug cartels...

reply
S. Gompers February 22, 2011 15:46:21

Other comment

+2
Corruption with business and Government? It can't be true (heavy sarcasm intended).

reply
Rick from Overland Park February 22, 2011 15:23:57

Hmmmm....

+1
Interesting. I can not make a judgment yet on this one. I don't trust the Congolese government any more than I trust the Obama Administration.

reply
Tau_Seti February 22, 2011 14:52:48

Other comment

"Do whatever you want as long as you don't get caught." Regardless, now deal with the consequences.

reply
hillbilly February 22, 2011 14:48:03 (edited)

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+3
That's probably the reason the usurper went down to Texas. Not just to snub Rick Perry,but hook up with his thugs and plan alittle Obama stash. Remember how it came to be Barry winning his senate seat, or Hillary Clinton dropping out ? Same thing here. Barry get his opponents tied with corruption or disgrace. This is not the first time Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born Houston oil tycoon an appointee of President Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation has been in trouble..

http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/...

reply
DreamSpiritDancer February 22, 2011 14:40:51

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+2
The truth of reality always surfaces. The Libs spin on this of course will be a comic satire with a way to blame the Repubs. Stupid is as stupid does and the target goes straight to the usurper himself.

reply
KY REDNECK February 22, 2011 14:38:35

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+4
It is the Chicago way just don't get caught.

reply
hillbilly to KY REDNECK February 22, 2011 14:53:10

I didn't know there were any rednecks in the bluegrass state, been getting alot of sunshine have you ??

reply
KY REDNECK to hillbilly February 22, 2011 15:06:56

+2
there are plenty of us

reply
hillbilly to KY REDNECK February 22, 2011 20:38:44 (edited)

kinfolk

reply
Eaglescout February 22, 2011 13:55:34

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+5
HA!! Figures...

reply
T Bevan February 22, 2011 13:51:55

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+3
The choice almost says it all?

reply
Dora Rachael February 22, 2011 13:49:13

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+3
It would not surprise me.

reply
PeterB February 22, 2011 13:29:00

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+5
Nothing any member of the Obama administration does surprises me any more. When the nation elected a favorite son of the Chicago political machine, it would have been naive to think that the crew he would bring in would have been a bunch of boy scouts. Being that his right hand man was Rahm Emanuel, the quality of the rest of the team was virtually assured to be questionable at best.

reply
Ferrari... to PeterB February 22, 2011 15:51:30

+1
Speaking of Rahm, now that the dead are going to elect him mayor of Chicago, will he have to move there from Virginia, or can he run the city from his regular office in Washington D.C. as per the last two years? Just wondering . . . Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

reply
PeterB to Ferrari... February 22, 2011 20:13:39 (edited)

I think he's gonna rent Tony Rezko's place on a sweetheart deal, since Tony won't be needing it for a few years.
Regards,
Pete

reply
DouglasSignorovitch February 22, 2011 13:00:40

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+7
There's not much I hear these days about Odumbo and his marry band of idiots that suprises me.
He can't even hire a good smuggler, go figure.

reply
Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA February 22, 2011 12:27:29

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+6
A crook appointing a crook, *and* this other comment: if Obama's crook are smuggling gold, we ought to be buying. G. Gordon Liddy is right: the US dollar is just a bunch of hot air.

reply
Douglas... to Temlako... February 22, 2011 12:58:23

+3
Why do you think ther have been so many "we buy gold cemericals on TV"?

reply
les_gvt February 22, 2011 12:26:27

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+2
truth is- this comment applies to BOTH parties

reply
T. O'Dea February 22, 2011 12:24:57

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+4
Please don't say your suprised!

reply
John February 22, 2011 10:17:19

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+6
We've seen the vermin he's surrounded himself with. Now it's time for us to surround his neck with hemp rope.

reply
2sly February 22, 2011 09:05:39

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+4
I guess Obama didn't listen to some of the things that Donald Trump always says. Surround yourself with people that make you excell. OOps maybe Obama did surround himself with like minded people.

reply
Vee February 22, 2011 08:40:03

Other comment

+6
Obummer has surrounded himself with communists, socialists and far left loons hs entire life. Guess most people didn't read about all that before the election. He's trying to "act" more centrist and Reaganesque, since the election, cause he knows he's in deep doo doo. He ain't foolin too many people any more. The ones who adore him and know his history...don't care, and support him regardless.

reply
mrdog February 22, 2011 08:30:16

Hmmmm....

interesting....bark

reply
sglmom February 22, 2011 07:43:04

A crook appointing a crook, imagine that.

+7
THANKS for the Good LAUGHS after a very long day!

reply
unicorn_lady1 February 22, 2011 07:31:49

Hmmmm....

+4
Amazing stuff... two and half weeks.... I see the MSM really got on this one fast.

reply