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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Judge handling the Carlyle Chicago Synagro case was in charge of the DELPHI securities case

"Separately, a federal judge who has been asked to dismiss a securities case
against former Delphi executives, said he will hold off on a decision as the
defendants and the Securities and Exchange Commission try to reach a settlement.
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said in a filing that he plans to defer a
decision until it seems that a settlement is out of reach."[Jan. 11, 2008]

http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/O%27Neil%20Exhibits.pdf

PRESS RELEASE from six years ago - - - 20031215 "Carlyle Group to Begin Investing in Mexico"

"
December 15, 2003
#2003-58
Carlyle Group to Begin Investing in Mexico

Leading Efforts are Luis Téllez and Joaquin Avila

Thomas F. McLarty to Become Senior Advisor to Carlyle and Advisor on Mexico Investment Activities

Washington, DC -- Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group today announced that Luis Téllez, currently Executive Vice President of Desc, and Joaquin Avila, currently Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, will join Carlyle as Managing Directors to establish an office in Mexico City and co-lead Carlyle’s first-ever buyout investment activities in Mexico. Also joining Carlyle as Senior Advisor to the firm with an emphasis on Mexico is Mack McLarty, President of Kissinger McLarty Associates and Chief of Staff to and Special Envoy to the Americas for President Bill Clinton. Messrs. Téllez, Avila, and McLarty begin at Carlyle on January 1, 2004.

David M. Rubenstein, Carlyle co-founder and Managing Director, said, “Mexico is fertile terrain for private equity investing. Luis and Joaquin are the perfect investment professionals to spearhead Carlyle’s investment activities in Mexico. They bring an unmatched depth of experience and knowledge of the business community and embody Carlyle’s thoughtful and conservative approach to investing. We are also particularly pleased to have Mack McLarty join Carlyle as a Senior Advisor. The firm will benefit greatly from his insightfulness and creativity, and his intimate knowledge of Mexico will serve our investment activities well.”

Mr. Téllez said, “The time is right to invest in Mexico and Carlyle, with its global platform and credibility in the markets, will be the first major player to make this type of commitment. I am particularly pleased that my friend and long time associate Mack McLarty will join us in this important and exciting endeavor. Mack knows Mexico, its challenges, and opportunities. His strategic input and problem solving ability will be critical to our success.”

Mr. Avila said, “I am quite pleased to join The Carlyle Group and to help lead this unique institution’s entry into the Mexican buyout market. Carlyle brings needed equity and tremendous management experience to the Mexican business community and a management-friendly approach to investing that will be well received by owners and workers alike.”

Mr. McLarty said, “I have known and worked with The Carlyle Group for a number of years and am quite pleased to join them in this timely endeavor. Carlyle and I have several intersections of mutual interest, including automotive, transportation, and energy issues, and, of course Mexico and the Americas. Mexico presents great opportunity and with Luis and Joaquin leading the effort, Carlyle will be able to have a real impact on the investment climate.”

* * * * *

Luis Téllez has served as Executive Vice President (CEO) of DESC, S.A. de C.V., one of Mexico’s largest companies. Desc, a diversified industrial conglomerate with nearly US$2 billion in sales, has businesses in the auto parts, chemicals, food production, brand management, and real estate sectors. Mr. Téllez has played a key role in the strategic management of the company.

From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Téllez served as Mexico’s Secretary of Energy. During his tenure, he designed and implemented an ambitious program to restructure the Mexican electricity sector, allowing for broader private involvement in generating, distributing, and transmitting electricity in Mexico. In 1998 and 1999, Mr. Téllez headed Mexico’s oil diplomacy efforts and played a key role in restoring stability in international oil markets and oil prices.

For the previous three years, Mr. Téllez served as Chief of Staff to President Ernesto Zedillo. After the Mexican crisis of 1995, he joined the Minister of Treasury and the Governor of the Central Bank to successfully secure the financial rescue package of US$50 billion dollars granted to Mexico by the U.S. and other major financial institutions.[1995: The height of ASARCO's years of illegal and secret hazardous-waste burning of military and industrial unmanifested-wastes, while Grupo Mexico sat on the Asarco Board (Carlyle now owns 20% of Grupo Mexico)]

From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Téllez served in several senior positions in the Mexican government, including Head Economist at the Ministry of Treasury and Undersecretary of Planning at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.

Since 2001, Mr. Téllez has been a member of APEC’s Business Advisory Council and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of DESC, Femsa, Grupo México, a member of the Business Council of the Reforma newspaper and of the Board of Counselors of Kissinger McLarty Associates. He is also a member of the Board of diverse non-profit organizations such as Fundación Televisa, Fundación Únete and Universidad Iberoamericana.

Mr. Téllez was named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, and Leader for the New Millenium by Time Magazine. Mr. Téllez, 45, earned his BS in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, suma cum laude, and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* * * * *

Joaquin Avila joined Lehman Brothers in 2000 as Managing Director and Co-Head of Latin America. He is responsible for developing and implementing strategic plans for the region. In 2001, under Mr. Avila’s leadership, the Latin America team generated one of the highest fee income per employee of the firm. In 2001, Lehman received the “Deal of the Year” award for Latin America by Euroweek Magazine for a Pemex US$750 million bond issue.

From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Avila served as Managing Director of VA Investments/Compass Group in Mexico City where he formulated the strategic plan to develop asset management and private equity businesses in Mexico. Mr. Avila also formed VAI, a private equity firm in Mexico that was financially supported by Banco Santander, where he successfully acquired the Hoteles Krystal for US$125 million.

From 1989 to 1996, Mr., Avila worked at Banco Santander, first as Head of Corporate Finance-Latin America and then as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Santander Investment. As head of Corporate Finance-Latin America, Mr. Avila structured the first “Matador” bond issue of the Mexican Government and Bancomext; negotiated a US$980 million loan to Grupo Alameda, parent company of Grupo Televisa; launched private sector bond issues including Astra, Novum, and Vitro; and negotiated a US$500 million loan to CeMex for the acquisition of Valenciana de Cementos in Spain. As Managing Director, Mr. Avila was responsible for the development of strategy throughout Latin America; acquired Banco Mexicano, the fourth largest bank in Mexico; and developed the business plan that led Santander Investments to obtain a full-power section 20 subsidiary in the U.S.

From 1988 to 1989, Mr. Avila worked at Bankers Trust as Representative of the Mexico City Office and was a board member of Unica, one of the oldest venture capital firms in Mexico. From 1987 to 1988, Mr. Avila served at Libra Bank PLC as Representative of the Mexico City Office where he acquired Grupo Rassini on behalf of Corporación San Luis. And from 1982 to 1987, he served General Director of Mines in the Mexican Ministry of Energy and Mines.

Mr. Avila, 50, earned his BS in engineering from the Universidad IberoAmericana, his MS in engineering from Stanford University, and his MBA from Yale University.

* * * * *

Mack McLarty is President of Kissinger McLarty Associates, a partnership with Dr. Henry Kissinger that provides strategic advisory and advocacy services to U.S. and multinational businesses with active involvement in Mexico and throughout Latin America. Mr. McLarty is also Chairman of McLarty Companies, a third-generation family transportation business based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. McLarty will remain in both of these positions after joining The Carlyle Group.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. McLarty served in several senior positions in the Clinton White House, including Chief of Staff to the President, Counselor to the President, and Special Envoy for the Americas. As Chief of Staff, Mr. McLarty organized the first Democratic Administration in twelve years and directed a wide variety of White House achievements, including enactment of the historic 1993 deficit reduction package, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Family and Medical Leave law.

As Counselor to the President, Mr. McLarty served in the President’s Cabinet and on the National Economic Council, advising the President on a wide range of subjects, particularly on business and economics. In 1994 Mr. McLarty organized the successful Summit of the Americas in Miami, and he played a critical role in structuring the Mexican peso stabilization program. Mr. McLarty participated in several G-7 and APEC Summits, and he traveled to the Persian Gulf on the President’s behalf to build financial support for the Bosnian peace process.

As Special Envoy to the Americas, Mr. McLarty served as President Clinton’s personal representative to the western hemisphere. He coordinated U.S. policy toward the region, including three presidential trips and U.S. participation in the 1998 Summit of the Americas in Chile.

Prior to his years in the White House, Mr. McLarty was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arkla, Inc., a Fortune 500 natural gas company with more than 2 million customers in 11 states and significant exploration and pipeline activities. Arkla was recognized by Forbes Magazine for management excellence, and by other national organizations for environmental initiatives and minority enterprise development.

Mr. McLarty, 57, was awarded the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal presented by Madeleine Albright and the Order of the Aztec Eagle presented at Los Pinos by Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo.

# # #

"
http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/News%20Archive/2003/item6573.html

Swiss Asarco Bank listed as "Import/Export"

"Asarco Ag...Zurich, Switzerland...

Company Information --Foreign Trade : Import/Export "

http://www.maceuro.com/Switzerland/co_details.cfm?cmp=482072097_Asarco+Ag

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Federal DOJ and EPA AGAIN entering into a "consent decree" (and is any of this decree "SECRET" like the 1998 ASARCO consent decree was??)

- Exactly how many "secret" sections to Consent Decrees may exist through our Federal DOJ?

"Friday, January 8, 2010

ANP Agrees to $5 Million Groundwater, Soil Cleanup in AZ

January 8, 2010- The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc. entered into a $5 million consent decree to remove toxic nitrates and perchlorates from groundwater and to monitor the progress. at the Apache Powder Superfund Site, near David...."

http://contaminatednation.blogspot.com/2010/01/anp-agrees-to-5-million-groundwater.html

Saturday, January 9, 2010

EPA Tests state that fuel oil electric plants (like the one at ASARCO) emitted Beryllium. So why don't we have DATA for the amounts here in the Paso del Norte?!?

"EPA tests on emissions from coal-fired power plants have also detected 67
different pollutants in trace amounts, including hazardous air pollutants, mercury,
beryllium, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and lead
. These trace contaminants are
also known to be emitted from fuel oil combustion"

http://www.edf.org/documents/3116_PollutionWithoutBorders.pdf


20030900 Research Paper (EPCC and NMSU) states that Rio Grande contamination by ASARCO could be responsible for leukaemia and congenital malformations in people

"Agrochemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, arsenic, and PCBs (presumably from illegal dumping, agriculture and maquiladora activities) have been detected in the [Rio Grande by Asarco] and may be associated with fish deformities, leukaemia, and congenital malformations in humans."

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/4/17

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Asarco Lead (Pb) sources in El Paso ... 2 million dollars ... to run x-ray absorption?


"PLoS One. 2009;4(4):e5019. Epub 2009 Apr 2.

Urban airborne lead: X-ray absorption spectroscopy establishes soil as dominant source.

Pingitore NE Jr, Clague JW, Amaya MA, Maciejewska B, Reynoso JJ.

Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA. nick@geo.utep.edu

BACKGROUND: Despite the dramatic decrease in airborne lead over the past three decades, there are calls for regulatory limits on this potent pediatric neurotoxin lower even than the new (2008) US Environmental Protection Agency standard. To achieve further decreases in airborne lead, what sources would need to be decreased and what costs would ensue? Our aim was to identify and, if possible, quantify the major species (compounds) of lead in recent ambient airborne particulate matter collected in El Paso, TX, USA. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used synchrotron-based XAFS (x-ray absorption fine structure) to identify and quantify the major Pb species. XAFS provides molecular-level structural information about a specific element in a bulk sample. Pb-humate is the dominant form of lead in contemporary El Paso air. Pb-humate is a stable, sorbed complex produced exclusively in the humus fraction of Pb-contaminated soils; it also is the major lead species in El Paso soils. Thus such soil must be the dominant source, and its resuspension into the air, the transfer process, providing lead particles to the local air. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Current industrial and commercial activity apparently is not a major source of airborne lead in El Paso, and presumably other locales that have eliminated such traditional sources as leaded gasoline. Instead, local contaminated soil, legacy of earlier anthropogenic Pb releases, serves as a long-term reservoir that gradually leaks particulate lead to the atmosphere. Given the difficulty and expense of large-scale soil remediation or removal, fugitive soil likely constrains a lower limit for airborne lead levels in many urban settings.

PMID: 19340295 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]"

Asarco Lead (Pb) source - confounds... again.

Dr. Pingitore awarded 2009 N.I.H. grant for almost one million dollars (Total 2009 Funding: $921,489 ) and $943,726 in 2008!!
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7668724

This local activist is confounded by the N.I.H. awarding such monies to researcher(s) who themselves admitted "various factors confound [their] ability to distinguish the relative contributions of Pb from the smelter point source and from the local area sources."

"Asarco spokespersons deny their company is responsible for the contamination in adjacent zones... Their argument received some support in a 2004 paper ...Authored by Dr. Nicholas Pingitore, Dr. Maria Amaya and others...cited other reasons the core area near Asarco could be laden with high amounts of lead, including the prior use of unleaded gasoline and old, vintage homes brightened with lead paint. According to Pingitore and associates, the various factors “" >confound one’s ability"> to distinguish the relative contributions of Pb from the smelter point source and from the local areal sources.”"">Frontera NorteSur June-August 2005 "The Battle of Asarco"


"Andrea, I know the work that has been done by Dr. Pingitore has been absolutely valid, and his approaches well justified." (quote from Dr. Amaya, email from Varnell to Eliot Shapleigh 2/23/2004 4:33 PM on Blood Lead Levels). Dr. Amaya now does research with Dr. Pingitore....


“In terms of actual concentration, lead paint chips and lead paint dust from these older homes are the biggest source of lead pollution in the community,” Johnson [previous Asarco El Paso environmental Manager] said, citing three studies, the latest an independent examination by UTEP geochemistry Prof. Nicholas Pingitore – also a Kern Place resident......Pingitore also takes issue with an EPA study that showed there is a lot of lead sulfide in the soil. It’s a substance one might normally assume came out of the smokestacks. “We don’t seem to find it,” Pingitore said of his own studies. ...." (from 20060128 el paso inc)





Sunday, January 3, 2010

20091103 Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) bid 34 BILLION to buy Burlington Northern Railroad

"November 3....Warren Buffett's legendary Berkshire Hathaway offered a whopping $34 billion to buy Burlington Northern Railroad.  The bid marked a 31.5% premium and was the largest acquisition in Berkshire Hathaway's history!"

quoted from Motley Fool newsletter

Saturday, January 2, 2010

ASARCO?? El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board Water System - Toxic Waters - The New York Times

http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters/contaminants/tx/el-paso/tx0710002-elpaso-water-utilities-public-service-board

Notice the Alpha, gross-beta and the Radium levels.

Why did the gross-beta radiation level exceed the legal limits in one sample?   Why are Alpha and Radium levels a concern?
  

2002 ATSDR CDC EL PASO TX study suggested that nearly 30% of children within one mile of ASARCO had elevated blood lead levels

http://shapleigh.org/system/reporting_document/file/337/ASARCO_Parcel_Acres_2.jpg
THIS IS NEAR THE NEW WALMART DEVELOPMENT AND THE MONTECILLO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT that dug off the toxic overburden (by the way -- where did they take it??).

"The distance of residence from smelter versus percentage of elevated blood lead suggests children living closer to the smelter had higher percentages of elevated blood lead test results than children living farther away from the smelter (Figures 6 and 7). Seven of the 24 children (29%) living within a mile of the smelter had elevated blood lead results (Table 4)."

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/PHA/elpaso2/elp_p1.html

Friday, January 1, 2010

WHEN WILL THE EPA CLEAN UP ITS OWN CORRUPTION - STARTING WITH THE ASARCO FRAUD IN EL PASO TX?!

The EPA fails to catch its own crooks - starting with why a Federal science agency (EPA) cannot even deliver DIOXIN results to the community of El Paso/Juarez/Sunland Park N.M.   SHAME EPA!

"Today's turning point coercion allotment will yield roughly a single billion dollars to purify up soiled Superfund sites," pronounced Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for a EPA's Office of Enforcement as well as Compliance Assurance. "This will meant cleaner land, H2O as well as air for communities [across the] country."

http://news.furutravel.com/superior-environmental-pileruptcy-in-u-s-story-will-product-in-payment-of-1-79-invoiceion-nears-environmental-attack/

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Why is there an Asarco A.G. Swiss Bank (Asarco SA, Asarco inc.) and why did our Justice System send the UBS Swiss Bank whistle blower to prison (but not the bankers?)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BT4DJ20091230

"Bradley Birkenfeld, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, has been hailed by whistleblower advocates and U.S. prosecutors alike as pivotal to the case against UBS... targeted in a wide probe by U.S. authorities for helping U.S. tax cheats to hide assets in UBS accounts...Birkenfeld seems both angered and stunned by the fact that he is due to enter prison on January 8 for a 40-month term.

Birkenfeld was handed his sentence by a Florida district court judge in August, two days after U.S. and Swiss authorities signed a pact in which Switzerland agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS to U.S. tax investigators.

No other UBS bankers have been jailed in connection with the massive tax fraud case."



THE IRONY ABOUT ASARCO EL PASO: EPA Seeks Public Input on Interim Guidance for Dioxins in Soil Cleanup Goals

What irony -- the EPA and TCEQ have failed to disclose the amounts of dioxins around the ASARCO El Paso Plant even though it has been three years since the public-release of the EPA-DOJ Asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document that let us know ASARCO burned unmanifested wastes for profit for years.  Dioxins are extremely common around secondary smelters and copper smelters.   Yet, after YEARS of repeated requests, our community still does not have access to this basic information.  This is appalling and a serious comment on the lack of scientific integrity of our National and State Environmental protection agencies.

Dear Stakeholders / Interested Parties:
 Today [DEC-31-09]  the Agency asked the public to comment on the draft interim remediation plans for cleaning up dioxins in soil. Details are below. Be sure to read more about the draft recommended guidance and how to comment at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/remedy/sfremedy/remedies/dioxinsoil.html   Best wishes for a Happy New Year,  Bonnie Piper Office of Public Outreach Office of Public Engagement Office of the Administrator O: 202-564-7836 Fax: 202-501-1770 email:  piper.bonnie@epa.gov   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 31, 2009  EPA Seeks Public Input on Interim Guidance for Dioxins in Soil Cleanup Goals  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today it is seeking public comment on draft interim preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) for cleanup of dioxins in soil.  Today’s announcement fulfills a commitment by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to announce interim cleanup goals by the end of 2009.  Dioxins are contaminants that are very widespread in the environment that have been of concern to EPA and the public health community for decades.  This action would strengthen EPA’s preliminary remediation goals at dioxin contaminated sites.  “While EPA works to complete the dioxin reassessment, this interim guidance will help us make better informed decisions on cleanup alternatives at contaminated sites,” said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. “We are following through on our commitment to use the best available science to help protect human health and the environment.”  Dioxins may cause a large number of different health effects, like cancer and reproductive effects. Dioxins are of concern because they are the result of combustion, and are absorbed from the air into the food chain where they can stay for many years.  Currently, EPA’s recommended dioxin PRGs are 1,000 part per trillion (ppt) for dioxin in residential soil and a level within the range of 5,000-20,000 ppt in commercial/industrial soil.  The draft interim PRGs proposed today are 72 ppt for residential land uses and 950 ppt for commercial/industrial land uses, thus lowering the amount of dioxins levels for residential land uses and commercial/industrial land uses.  In addition, the draft interim PRGs differ from the current dioxin PRGs in that they include consideration of the potential absorption of dioxin through skin exposure.  This will provide a tool for site evaluation that was not available when EPA last recommended PRGs for dioxins in soil in 1998.  In 1991, in light of significant new data on the potential human health effects of dioxins, EPA began the development of a comprehensive evaluation of exposure and human health effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), the most toxic of the group of chemicals known as dioxins, and other dioxin-like compounds. This draft dioxins assessment has been through several independent external peer reviews, the latest a 2004 review by a scientific panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences. When the EPA dioxin risk assessment is complete, it will be the agency’s scientific foundation for future decision-making about dioxins in the environment.  EPA will be taking public comment on the draft interim PRGs for 50 days following publication in the Federal Register, and anticipates issuing the final interim PRGs in June 2010.  Upon completion of the dioxins reassessment, currently expected by the end of 2010, EPA will consider the need to update the interim PRGs.  More information on the draft recommended interim PRGs and how to comment: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/remedy/sfremedy/remedies/dioxinsoil.html   R401

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

20091230 "Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30secrets.html

"...President Obama declared on Tuesday that “no information may remain classified indefinitely” as part of a sweeping overhaul of the executive branch’s system for protecting classified national security information.

In an executive order and an accompanying presidential memorandum to agency heads, Mr. Obama signaled that the government should try harder to make information public if possible, including by requiring agencies to regularly review what kinds of information they classify and to eliminate any obsolete secrecy requirements.

“Agency heads shall complete on a periodic basis a comprehensive review of the agency’s classification guidance, particularly classification guides, to ensure the guidance reflects current circumstances and to identify classified information that no longer requires protection and can be declassified,” Mr. Obama wrote in the order..."


Monday, December 28, 2009

additional ASARCO El Paso information available online in an easy format

Link to Government Regulations regarding ASARCO El Paso

Google Alert - United Steel Workers last August 2009 opposed ASARCO court recommendation

The Steelworkers Union Attorneys [along with the Federal DOJ, the EPA, the TCEQ and N.M. Env. Dept.] failed to ask the Courts to look at the liabilities from ASARCO illegally burning unmanifested toxic-wastes (hazardous wastes) for years in both El Paso TX and E. Helena, MT.  WHY??!!

District Information Center | United Steelworkers
USW Opposes ASARCO Bankruptcy Recommendation ... Throughout the more than four years that ASARCO has been in bankruptcy, Asarco, Inc. has been displaced ...

"According to Robert LaVenture, Director of USW District 12 and chairman of bargaining with ASARCO, the USW is continuing to closely analyze the bankruptcy’s court lengthy report. LaVenture stated that “the USW believes the bankruptcy court failed to deal with the Union's key argument that Grupo Mexico’s proposed plan of reorganization cannot and should not be confirmed because of its failure to reach a new labor agreement with the USW, which is an obligation found in the current collective bargaining agreement.”  LaVenture states that the Union intends to file pleadings in the district court addressing what the USW believes to be the legal and other errors in the bankruptcy court’s recommendation."

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Who gamed the Bankruptcy system?

WHY DID THE ENTIRE BANKRUPTCY "SYSTEM" IGNORE THE LIABILITIES FROM what the EPA/DOJ told us (after 8 years of secrecy!) was THE ILLEGAL and SECRET BURNING OF UNMANIFESTED WASTES FOR PROFIT, incinerated over YEARS?!  Who exactly gamed the Bankruptcy system?  The owners of ASARCO or the regulators?  We have evidence that the regulators knew what happened and concealed it in 2001 from the community.  What deals have been made to sacrifice the peoples of the Paso del Norte region to this contamination, and why?!?

Why has the Asarco Bankruptcy completely ignored what was almost a decade of illegal toxic poisons spread over El Paso/Juarez/N.M. and E. Helena MT by these burnings of military and industrial unreported wastes??  

Rep. Reyes, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee said that Asarco paid MILLIONS on condition that the details of what it had done were never made public.    WHY WERE THESE POISONS NEVER MADE PUBLIC?  Why couldn't the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee make these poisons public?   Why have we never been told what these poisons are -- even after an international La Paz committee made a recommendation/resolution that the background contamination be studied and reported?!?

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El Paso Inc article link: Asarco: cleaning the mess

http://www.elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=263&xrec=4742 <cid:part1.08040803.04070307@gmail.com>

Saturday, December 26, 2009

20091009 USB informant "harsher-than-expected treatment by the US Justice Department"

Prosecution of UBS informant seen backfiring on US
By Tom Brown of Reuters MIAMI - The key informant in the US tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG faces prison next year, but his harsher-than-expected treatment by the US Justice Department will undermine efforts to expose secretive offshore tax havens, lawyers and whistle-blower advocates say. Bradley Birkenfeld,...
Tags: tax, UBS AG, U.S. Department Of Justice
News items 2009-10-09