2nd Virgin Islands “Bag Man” Revealed…
Posted By admin on May 1, 2012
While Virgin Islander’s and tourists from around the world basked in pageantry during the 60th annual Virgin Islands Carnival, jump-up, march and jamboree, on St. Thomas, the wheels of justice continued to turn concerning unfolding allegations of political corruption and financial mismanagement by VI government officials. According to most reports this year’s carnival was “the bomb” and ranked among the highest in terms of attendance from its auspicious beginning. Concomitantly, the endless revelations pointing to official corruption in the context of the United States’ federal justice process, seems to be moving to the point of adjudication.
Impacting the jubilant orbit of carnival week, the Washington DC based national investigative news organ, The Daily Caller published on Monday April 30, 2012 another installment in their ongoing investigative report on alleged VI government corruption and official bribery scandal, authored by Matthew Boyle. “Former U.S. Virgin Island Senator David Jones helped his fellow Sen. Roosevelt David deliver cash bribes in the territory’s bribery scandal, The Daily Caller’s Department of Justice source said.
According to a knowledgeable government official who served on a Department of Justice team put in place to arrest finance executives close to that telecommunications deal, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh accepted a portion of a least $20 million in cash bribes that floated throughout the territory’s government.
The U.S. Department of Justice, source said, they never acted on sealed indictments related to a years-long criminal scheme involving bank fraud and other financial crimes. The bribes, according to the source, were for de Jongh, his attorney general, Vincent Frazer, and assorted Virgin Islands legislators-all aimed at squashing local concerns about financial irregularities identified on the books of the National Rural Utilities Cooperation Finance Cooperative (CFC).
The Daily Caller has previously reported that the U.S. Department of Justice source said, David was the ‘bag man’ and ally of the governor and CFC who delivered the cash bribes from CFC to the governor. The DC source said, Jones played a role similar to David’s but dealt more with local legislators and acted much more ‘behind-the-scenes’ than David. According to the source, Jones delivered bribes to Virgin Islands Senators.
Some of the senators aren’t friends with him (Roosevelt David) in the sense that he could sit with them and work a deal out for them to vote on a bill, The DC’s source said, in a recent phone interview. So, former Sen. David Jones would pick up where he (Roosevelt David) could not complete. When in the U.S. Virgin Islands legislature, Jones served as Senate President-something that gives him more clout than the average former senator. David Jones was one of those in the background lobbying other senators and working other consultants with Roosevelt David through the governor’s office, The DC’s source said.
The DC’s source also said that Roosevelt David was at one point cooperating with federal investigators on the case. He, Roosevelt
David was cooperating with federal agents originally and, of course with what has been revealed or determined now, he’s gone silent, the source said, adding that David has ‘gone mute’ because it’s been discovered his role in the case was much more substantial than originally thought.
But because we know so much more now, we don’t really need him, Roosevelt David, anymore. The DC’s source added. The DC’s source also said Jones has ‘never cooperated’ with federal investigators. The Daily Caller was unable to reach Jones for comment before the story. In previous attempts to speak with David, he refused interviews and has hung up the phone.”
Gary James, who recently relocated to St. Croix from New York, has contacted Congressmen, Rangel and Conyers concerning the perception of political collusion between particular members of the US Department of Justice and VI government officials under indictment, which is why execution of the federal sealed indictments was truncated. In his (James) letter to the congressmen, he said, “I am concerned that there are efforts underway to link President Obama’s reelection campaign with short circuiting movement on the alleged VI government corruption case, for political reasons.”
James is heading up a coalition of Republicans and Democrats in New York City, on behalf of the reelection of President Obama, and they are formulating a fundraiser a fall fundraiser for the Obama campaign. A spokesperson for Gary James said, “We trust that President Obama will in short order distance his reelection the campaign in order to avoid any perception of collusion with the administration of the non-voting Virgin Islands governor.”
On April 24, 2012 the Daily Caller reported that U.S. Department of Justice official Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich plans to resign his position shortly for allegedly providing misleading information to congress relative to the Virgin Islands bribery scandal and other matters.
island. James is a longtime political activist and analyst based in New York City and a strong supporter of President Obama’s reelection. While discussing presidential election 2012 he raised the association question to a state side political colleague, also a supporter of the president’s reelection.
“If it is proven to be true that the execution of these sealed indictments were quashed at the highest levels of the U.S. Department of Justice it’s a very serious situation and there will be much concern and anxiety relative to the prospect of political collusion between the Federal and VI governments and troubling to Virgin Islanders going forward.”
African Americans that trace their roots to the various southern states may be surprised to learn that their roots extend to the Caribbean by way of the southern states where enslaved Africans were sold on the auction block, after first being “broken” on one of the European Colonies in the Caribbean. Therefore, notwithstanding roots in the south, their families very likely arrived to the new world from the shores of one of the Caribbean slave colonies.
I encourage other mainland African Americans to research their family ancestry in the Virgin Islands and other Caribbean countries and make every effort to establish residency there and become informed about the history and current events on the ground and prepare to participate in their country’s electoral future.”
Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the White House, has a burden that seems to be the equivalent to the epic burden of Sisyphus. While Romney’s nomination is generally accepted as a foregone conclusion, the political wounds that he continues to suffer by way of the social conservative and the Christian conservative contingents in the bygone party of President Lincoln will most likely prove to be lethal…
Interestingly enough, it was the stalwart conservative Republican, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a former GOP Presidential nominee that predicted the fate of the party, which is exemplified by the “Tea Party” political movement. While the conservative contingents of the Democratic Party lost their political hegemony in the south as a result of the success of the valiant civil rights movement, the post civil rights Republican Party in the framework of its “southern strategy” became the new “Jim Crow” and has morphed from their heretofore eclectic and progressive political motif.
re-election of President Obama at the May meeting of the organization, which is the last monthly meeting prior to the summer recess.” James continued, “In 2008 the organization virtually spilt down the middle between Senator Obama and Senator McCain for the presidency. I said publically that I intended to vote for Obama and granted an interview to Jacob Templin a journalism student at the Columbia University School of Journalism. However, this time I will advocate that members of the organization seriously consider voting for the re-election of President Obama this time around.”
While reflecting on the struggles and epic journey that has resulted in the Government of the United States enacting an official Federal holiday in recognition of the work and contribution of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. there remains many ironies, paradoxes and insidious resistance. From this writer’s local perspective as a recent resident of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands I took note that this territory of the United States was among the first in the nation to endorse and recognize the MLK Jr. Federal holiday.
victories of the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s; black Americans are a political weakling in terms of percentages as compared to other ethnic minority communities. The black American community has enjoyed an historical numerical advantage as compared to other political “minority” communities, such as women, and gays for example but they enjoy proportionally more political leverage than the black community.
In the wake of diminishing political support in recent polls, Rick Perry’s presidential nomination campaign speaks of the 800 pound gorilla in the room. While it has remained under the political radar until now, Mitt Romney’s faith has always represented an albatross around his neck in some conservative Christian political quarters. However, the unspoken of, evangelical Christian political inertia, injected into the GOP nomination contest by the reactionary Perry campaign may put Romney’s Mormon faith on center stage.
hard pressed to give the final nomination nod to a black America. Interestingly enough, the final decision associated with the GOP candidate in 2012, may boil down to the so-called “lesser of two evil,” by way of racial discrimination vs. religious discrimination.
Here’s his bio:
With the advent of Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, into the Grand Old Party (GOP) presidential sweepstakes, the nomination process is apparently boiling down into a two man race. Interestingly enough, Perry, an evangelical conservative Republican and darling of the “Tea Party, was a member of the Democratic Party two decades ago.
respectively, in the mid 1960’s, many Democrats particularly in the southern states, who objected to the new role of black Americans in electoral politics and civil society, migrated to the Republican Party. To paraphrase President Johnson, the success of the civil rights movement lost the Democratic south to the Republican Party.
I don’t have any problem answering that shrouded question! First of all let me offer a context for the twenty-five (25) plus years that separates the question of the 1984 re-election of President Reagan versus the 2012 presidential election and who knows who will ultimately be the Republican Party designee.
Organization (NWRO), in New York City. NWRO was among several of the well known professional civil rights organizations. You may recall that the primary political objective of the civil rights movement during the early days was to infiltrate the Democratic Party particularly in the southern states and beat back Jim Crow and segregation from the inside. During that time the Democratic Party in the south in particular was synonymous with racism, and the KKK. The political strategy of the movement was to change the party from within, by way of voter registration and voter application in order to infiltrate the local Democratic Party. The strategic infiltration was successful and that process essentially broke the back of segregation and Jim Crow in the context of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts respectively.
I worked with a few Democratic and Republican district leaders during their petitioning process in the late 1960’s and mid 70’s. But it was in the 1980 presidential election when my organization Voters Anonymous organized a presidential debate scheduled for Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, between Vice President Walter Mondale and Gov. Ronald Reagan. The debate ultimately did not happen, but the Reagan campaign liked the idea and our political narrative therefore they kept the event scheduled until the eleventh hour, and it was mentioned in the local press. In addition, there were some political machinations against us in the form of some downfield political interference, engaged in by a few “official” black Republican district leaders in New York City that we handled very well. Our comportment displayed dignity, grace and political skill. Hence we were able to generate some political capital in the Reagan White House in 1980.
on my assessment of the current state of affairs and political trajectory of the party, I don’t believe that a classic political victory is in the cards in 2012. I believe that the 2012 presidential election will begin a rude awakening for the national as well as the local Republican Party in some communities. 
Thank you for that question. That is a very good question… I personally will not commit to voting for the ultimate Republican Party presidential nominee, as a practical political matter. It is possible that I may vote for the party nominee at the end of the day. However, if I were to answer that question today I would say no…
that he will be a one term president?
