Photo and video credit and data: March 2014. Penitenciaria Nacional La Victoria. República Dominicana. Captured and owned by WOBIK.
Last week I attended an official extradition hearing in which the honorable Court decided whether or not I would be extradited to the Republic of Kenya.
The honorable Court offered me a trade which will expire in 90 days from the date of the June 26th, 2014 extradition hearing.
The honorable Court has indicated that they are genuinely and exceedingly interested in locating a wanted trader and scam broker who is the owner of Obama Binary Options.
The wanted trader and scam broker is currently in the Dominican Republic and cannot legally leave the country (i.e., subject to immediate arrest and will be taken into custody at any of the country’s exit ports).
Obama Binary Options is owned by another company who is licensed in Cyprus. It should be noted that country of Cyprus is the world’s foremost advocate of binary options.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) took the pioneering step of classifying binary options as a financial derivative market worthy of regulation.
If I can’t track down the wanted trader, scam broker and owner of Obama Binary Options within the next 86 days (or 2064 hours) I will be taken into custody again and detained once more at the Penitenciaria Nacional La Victoria here in the Dominican Republic while I await extradition to the Republic of Kenya to stand trial for allegedly bribing government officials and also for treason.
The manhunt begins.
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LMFAO!
Wow, when you lie, its go big or go home!
What, was the position of “Official Ninja” already taken?
I’d type more, but my sides hurt too much from laughing.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
Please Andy boy don’t type more. The adults here have heard quite enough of your inane, childish comments. We would like to hear an apology from you for being a RACIST sympathizer though.
Lucas,
‘Penitenciaria Nacional La Victoria, República Dominicana’ does not appear to me to be a very pleasant place to spend even a single day behind bars, much less any extended time period. I hope you NEVER AGAIN have to spend time there, especially while in wait for a TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIABLE EXTRADITION to KENYA.
The above ‘court decision’ sounds like a great deal for the DR, but quite risky for LDS.
THEY have everything to gain from the deal and nothing to lose. IF the ‘scammer’ is caught, the DR likely can obtain lots of previously unpaid tax money from the company as a court imposed FINE and also PRAISE from the public for getting a ‘scammer’ off the streets. The Kenyan authorities who originally requested your extradition won’t be getting any of their bribe money back, if this in fact is what transpired with some DR authorities.
YOU, on the other hand, have everything to lose and nothing to gain, except CANCELLATION OF YOUR EXTRADITION of course, which NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ORDERED ANYWAY. You are somehow being held RESPONSIBLE for the ‘scammer’ being caught within a relatively short time span. If the ‘scammer’ is not caught, YOU GET EXTRADITED TO KENYA.
Hopefully, the DR law enforcement officials, with research help from you, will be able to take the ‘Obama Binary Options’ scammer into custody sometime in the next three months, and life for LDS can finally return to normal!
LDS tells a lie, but when that one doesn’t work, he tells an even more ridiculous one. Where does it end? Danilo Medina giving LDS his job?
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
Another inane, childish comment Andy boy. I am still waiting for your general apology for being a RACIST sympathizer.
Bruce wrote:
Spoilers “Bruce”, there isn’t one. LDS’s life for all intents and purposes is normal. Well, normal for a guy squatting in DR to avoid being rightfully arrested for crimes he committed in his home country.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
Andy boy, go back to the video games and comic books. Your ridiculous, childish comments here are getting to be a bit much. Before you leave though, tell us what is a normal life for a RACIST sympathizer like you?
Lucas,
I guess, everything considered, this really is very ‘good news’. At least you’re not being IMMEDIATELY extradited to Kenya, which I feared, so CONGRATULATIONS are definitely in order.
WELL DONE — to you and your legal council for some creative bargaining using the ‘Obama Binary Options’ scam as leverage.
It’s just hard for me to look at that video of ‘Penitenciaria Nacional La Victoria’ and be cheerful, knowing that the possibility still exists for you to be returned to that place and then shamefully extradited!
Bruce, if you are who you say your are, and you believe LDS’s latest crock of shit, then do have your checkbook out. He’s no doubt about to hit you up for donations for “Bounty Hunter” supplies. Just remember to put “I’m a dumbshit!” in the memo line of the check.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
Andy boy you are the last person in the world to call anybody a dumbshit. What do you think your claim to fame is other than being exposed by me as a RACIST sympathizer and by Rambo Ike as a BIGOT. What makes you the authority on how Bruce should spend his money? You would do well to learn to mind your own business.
Lucas Daniel Smith – The Coerced ‘Extreme Binary Options’ Player
It’s ironic, but it seems to me that Lucas is now in effect being forced by certain Kenyan and Dominican Republic authorities to play some strange, extreme ‘binary options’ game.
At this point, there appears to be only TWO OUTCOMES possible for the future of our courageous, patriotic friend:
(1) FREEDOM and LIFE (if the Obama Binary Options ‘scammer’ is found)
or
(2) INCARCERATION at the ‘Penitenciaria Nacional La Victoria’, EXTRADITION and then DEATH (IMO) in some Kenyan prison while awaiting trial for allegedly bribing government officials and treason in Kenya (if the ‘scammer’ is not found)
One way or the other, this most extreme ‘binary option’ for Lucas will EXPIRE precisely 90 days from June 26, 2014
Huh. All this time I thought “Bruce”‘was a secondary personality. He’s real? Go figure.
Hahahahaha!
Are you writing a novel, LDS? Your perfervid prose would so suggest. Should be a best seller!
Hahahahahaha.
Kate520 wrote:
I’m about 60/40 on whether this Bruce is real or not. If he is real, he’s the exact kind of mark every con artist PRAYS for. Someone who will give unwavering support, and access to quick cash, no questions asked. He forked over like $8,000 to LDS, to “fight” a so-called extradition, without so much as asking question 1 for proof.
I admittedly may be way off base here, but —
I suspect one of the main reasons the DR court is INEXPLICIABLY holding LDS RESPONSIBLE for the DR Law Enforcement Officials’ apprehension of the ‘Obama Binary Options Scammer’ may have something to do with the desire of certain DR authorities to conduct their OWN PRIVATE FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS directly with the likely extremely WEALTHY ‘scammer’ INSTEAD OF formerly turning him/her over to the legal system.
In other words, this may be just a convenient way for these DR authorities to obtain as much research help as possible from Lucas and then COLLECT both: (1) A FULL PAYMENT from the Kenyan authorities for actually extraditing Lucas at the end of the 90 day allotted time, and also (2) A substantial BRIBE from the ‘scammer’ assuring that no arrest actually occurs.
Cui bono?
Nothing else make sense to me!
Lucas has already done his job admirably in researching and, apparently, revealing the damning facts surrounding the ‘Obama Binary Options’ scam to the court!
The criminal tracking resources available to a private citizen, even to one as savvy and accomplished as Lucas, don’t begin to compare to those of professional law enforcement officials. There is certainly no harm in their enlisting his cooperation. However, nothing further should actually be REQUIRED of him.
If a private payoff deal is now made with the ‘scammer, I believe the ‘SCAMMER’ SOMEHOW WILL NOT BE FOUND by the DR Law Enforcement officials within the required 90 day time period, or perhaps, ever.
LUCAS SHOULD BE SET FREE FROM ALL RESPONSIBILITIES IN ACTUALLY APPREHENDING THE SCAMMER – NOW!
I SAY — NO EXTRADITION OF LUCAS TO KENYA, REGARDLESS OF WHAT TRANSPIRES WITH THE FORMALLY IDENTIFIED ‘SCAMMER’.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
Andy boy, why are so so concerned with how Bruce chooses to spend his money? I would think that your concern would be with cleaning up your RACIST sympathizer image. I guess RACISTS don’t give a darn about their image. What say you Andy boy?
Of course they won’t find the scammer, Bruce. Can’t find a person who doesn’t exist!
Don’t worry though. Imaginary figments cannot extradite or imprison a person either, so LDS is perfectly safe.
Our plan is working to perfection. Lucas is one step closer to rotting in a hell hole in Kenya for the rest of his life. He thinks he knows how to survive in prison. Let’s see how that works out. Keep sending all the money you want Bruce. It is too little too late.
Andrew Vrba, PmG wrote:
@ Larry Bland:
All you have is a strawman and a red herring. Add that to your prudishness and your constant invoking of the adults, it is fair to say that you have never had a seat at the big table on Thanksgiving. Poor Larry. Just a sad little kid. You are so obvious.
@ BobJ:
I can see that you spent some time in the dictionary this morning, red herring, strawman (sic) and prudishness. Big concepts for such a small mind Bobby boy. I wish that you would stop repeating things to try and demean me that I have already used against you and Andy boy. Can’t you and your kind come up with anything original? Your use of “I now you are but what am I” tactics solidifies that you are incapable of original thought. Wonder if Andy boy appreciates you identifying him as my straw man?
IForged NancyOwensBirthCertificate wrote:
Oh, I don’t wish that on LDS. No, I’m perfectly fine with him spending the rest of his existence in the Dominican Republic. He can’t do any harm to our great nation from there. Though if he ever does resurface in the USA, I’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that he’ll be running and hiding from law enforcement.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG: Said:
“I’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that he’ll be running and hiding from law enforcement”.
Much like you run and hide from Rambo Ike who has exposed your racial bigotry at another site. Much like you run and hide from me who has exposed you as a RACIST sympathizer. Much like you run and hide from Falcon who has left you bloody after every exchange with him.
Well LLDS, since you asked for suggestions and recommendation here are some things you need to clean up before you send this manuscript to a publisher. It is a work of pure fiction, but even fiction has to have some element of reality.
First, your connection to Obama Binary Systems has never been explained. In the middle of your promised 10 part series on the extradition, gears were switched and you started on this company. Did I miss something? Do you work for this company, or are you so enamored with the Obama name that you are drawn to everywhere it may appear? You also make the claim that the government of the Dominican Republic was unaware of the company until you blew the whistle. Did you mention this during the hearing, or was the court aware of your investigation? Also, there is no mention by you of Cyprus. In fact Cyprus only appears in a comment by Bruce about a different company. When did a Cyprus ownership change occur? Previously, you stated that the company was:
” nothing more than three (3) relatively young and extremely intelligent guys (each from the same country in the middle east) with several websites which they built themselves and a ‘boiler room’ in the Dominican Republic.”
Cyprus in not in the Middle East.
You see LLDS, many people like a good piece of fiction. You have a good story outline, but you are missing a lot. Perhaps you should make the judge a relative of someone who was scammed by Obama Binary Options. During his/her research on the company your “reports” were discovered. Maybe make the judge blind due to the devastating suicide by a gullible niece or nephew because of bad investments. That would be a way readers could suspend belief enough to accept the plausibility of the story. You may also want to create a Kenya/ DR rift. The idea that a man being charged with treason could cut a deal with the host country to avoid extradition is only remotely possible if there is some a conflict between the nations.
Come on, LLDS. You can do better. Or maybe you can’t. Seems that even your obvious lies are shit.
To Larry Bland, a big thank-you. Your last post was awesome. It proved your inexperience and ignorance in a perfectly succinct way.
@ BobJ: Said:
“To Larry Bland, a big thank-you. Your last post was awesome. It proved your inexperience and ignorance in a perfectly succinct way”.
After reviewing my last post here I couldn’t help but notice that you Bobby boy also have a tendency to run and hide from Rambo Ike and Falcon. Your comments back to me are becoming more nonsensical and I am confident that at some point you will also just admit defeat and start running and hiding from me as well. Here is a thought Bobby boy, why not start today?
Well Bob, I don’t think there was much of a mystery as to why he abandoned his 10 part series. It was boring. Competent con artists, and LDS, pride themselves on weaving the most fantastical yarn possible.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG: Said:
“Competent con artists, and LDS, pride themselves on weaving the most fantastical yarn possible”.
Andy boy, you should be proud of yourself for the fantastical yarn you weaved here. Acting as an anti birther obot when in fact you are a RACIST sympathizer is a doozy!
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG:
You are right, it is getting boring. Another problem with LLDS’s tale is that the visa hurdles are too high. The DR may well be like “the Old West” as LLDS once wrote, but there is no way a court would let an expat wander around the country in search of a fugitive CEO. The government and the department of immigration would never sign off on a misadventure of this magnitude. Especially for an international man of crime, wanted in at least 2 countries.
Bad grifting ? Poorly organized fiction? Kaufmanesque attempt at humor? Desperate need for attention ( and Bruce’s money) ? All of the above? I wonder which LLDS will claim as the impetus for this big,fat lie.
This whole thing makes Nancy Ruth Owens credible by comparison.
“If I can’t track down the wanted trader, scam broker and owner of Obama Binary Options within the next 86 days..”
Maybe you could forge one?
Daniel Van Koughnett wrote:
Lucas basically gave himself another 3 months to make up a new lie. If Bruce is real this gives him more time to get more money out of him. Just wait for the next big whopper that Lucas tells.
You’ll notice the grift is no longer about Obama or his BC. That is because birtherism is no longer profitable, just ask Mike Zullo.
Andrew Vrba, PmG wrote:
Hey, it is all about fantasies on this forum isn’t it? I can have mine. LOL
Fair enough. Your fantasies are no more absurd than LDS’s, in fact yours are closer to probable than his.
@ Andrew Vrba, PmG
Certainly we all know that your fantasy of being accepted by the obots that post here has come to fruition even though one has tagged you as my straw man and even though I have proven you are RACIST sympathizer. Just like in your comic books and video games Andy boy, fantasies do come true.
“Countering Small Bribes” – Nice Words, We’ve Heard Them Before, But They Are Wrong
FCPA Professor
A Forum Dedicated to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
7/14/2014
Excerpts:
Today’s post is from Professor Bruce Bean (Michigan State University College of Law). Prior to academia, Bean had a diverse practice career including at various law firms and in-house counsel positions.
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As FCPA Professor recently highlighted, Transparency International UK released a new publication, “Countering Small Bribes – Principles and Good Practice Guidance for Dealing with Small Bribes including Facilitation Payments.” (See here.) For once, TI has it all wrong!
This publication focuses on “grease,” “tea money,” “facilitation payments.” These terms describe small payments, and while no one knows how small these may be, such payments are common in the real world. “Countering Small Bribes” discusses these in 44 pages and prescribes how such “bribes” can be eliminated.
TI begins by repeating a mantra regularly heard by those of us who deal in this area:
Nice words. We have heard them before. They are wrong.
Small bribes do not “[create] an unstable operating environment,” “[damage] human rights” or “[distort] business.” Rather, small bribes are one of the results of being in a jurisdiction where the rule of law has not been established and locals already do not trust government. Facilitation payments do not create and do not corrode public and business standards; they are the result of an existing culture of corruption.
While the goal of eliminating corruption is a noble one, punishing the alleged “bribe” givers while ignoring the officials, high level and low, who extort such payments has proved to be fruitless. Small and large bribes are more often extorted from businesses. After all, no legitimate business hopes to give a bribe. Such extortion is practiced by experts who have developed techniques very difficult to resist. Fighting corruption by punishing the victims of such extortion is equivalent to pushing on a rope. It gets us nowhere. Given the 37 years of experience we have had with the FCPA, we cannot escape the conclusion that approaching bribery in international business solely from the bribe payers’ perspective has not, does not, and will not work.
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“The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (‘FCPA’), which was passed in 1977, introduced in 1988 the concept of facilitating (also commonly referred to as ‘facilitation’) payments with an exception from prosecution for such payments. This was to recognise a type of intractable bribery confronting US businesses when operating abroad. Since then, this form of bribery has attracted considerable debate and controversy.
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Note the final sentence: “Criminalization by other countries does not seem a practical or effective complementary action.” Obviously the U.K. Parliament disagreed when, after much debate, it explicitly criminalized facilitation payments. Governmental hypocrisy is normal in every U.S. administration and is perhaps a necessary aspect of today’s democracies. Our British cousins exemplify this with this statement describing facilitation payments which is found in the Guidance to the UK Bribery Act 2010:
This carefully crafted statement is precisely accurate. It explains that neither the Bribery Act enacted in 2010, nor the superseded earlier anti-bribery laws in England and Wales dating back to 1886, exclude facilitating payments from the definition of crime of bribery. Absolutely true – the law of England and Wales has never excepted such payments. On the other hand, in the century plus of British foreign trade under their prior trio of anti-bribery laws, and in the three years since the new Bribery Act became effective, there has also never been a prosecution for foreign facilitating payments. Not one! Perhaps this is why Parliament had no problem criminalizing something they believed was not going to be prosecuted. Whatever one might think about the wisdom of the grease payment exception in the FCPA, as readers of FCPA Professor are aware, the Department of Justice does actively ignores this exception in bringing enforcement actions.
TI-UK’s “Countering Small Bribes,” unfortunately, does nothing to advance the fight against corruption. TI does very valuable work, the results of which we all rely upon. But “Countering Small Bribes” does not advance this fight. To combat bribery, national prosecutors must actually bring cases. To be meaningful, such cases should involve actual bribes, not small facilitation payments. And if we are sincerely interested in effectively reducing bribery, we must enhance our efforts to punish the extortionate government officials who demand bribes, rather than continue to punish only the victims of extortion.
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Note – contrary to TI’s suggestion, facilitating payments were always exempted in the FCPA originally though a carve-out in the “foreign official” definition (i.e. a “foreign official” did not include an individual with ministerial or clerical duties). In 1988 this exemption became the stand-alone facilitation payments exemption currently found in the FCPA.
View the complete article at:
— REGARDING THE ALLEGED PAYMENT OF ‘SMALL BRIBES’
The following excerpt is from Page 2 of the referenced ‘scribd’ document. Note that Lucas Daniel Smith officially claims he was negotiating the terms of sale for the authentic ‘Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate’ for $3 million US dollars in November 2013.
http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/blog/barrack-obama-eligibility/civil-complaint-currently-under-consideration-for-filing-by-lucas-daniel-smith/
I am certainly not a legal expert. However, IMHO, it would seem a ‘cash consideration’ of $5000 paid by LDS in February 2009 in order to obtain an authentic, US historical document of great importance, and now arguably worth a minimum of $3 million would be considered ‘SMALL‘.
After all, $5000 is only about 0.17% of $3 million.
Compare this, for example, to a typical restaurant ‘tip’ of 15% for services rendered here in the U.S.A.
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