“Christian and humanitarian and in sympathy with the beneficiaries’ precarious states of health”.......Leonel you will never get the public to buy in on this unless that woman drops dead next week

for someone who is politically astute how could he have done this ....He will regret it

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

He would have been better off not trying to defend these obscenities with more BS. You're as transparent as glass Lie-onel. Dumb move.

Leonel, quit while you are behind. we did not see any evidence of you requesting the names of sick inmates at Victoria who are doing 30 years for stealing a chivo. you screwed up, and gave yourself away, for what you are. continued defense of this action will only serve to underscore your lack of good judgement.

Liars always expose themselves in the end.

Notice the semi-fascist salute ala Peter Sellers in Doctor Strangelove!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesXUFOlWC0&feature=related

They were made to contribute to Leonel's next campaign, and to buy shares in cap cana.

JimHarrington, you are absolutely on point with that speculation; their freedom is bought and paid for. sadly, like for drivers' licenses, court proceedings, birth certificates, and just about anything you can name, money has to change hands here; every transaction has to be lubricated by cash. so, do not hold your breath waiting for Leonel to pardon any poor, insignificant people.

Investors are pulling out left and right ....Pull out thats what joseans father should have done Pulled Out

Oh yea Vivian as re admitted to the clinic but not before she was spotted at the beauty salon. The only reason she went back to the clinic was because these thieves were feeling the pressure.
What we need is for a mob to lynch that thieft and than maybe, the Govermenet might understand that we are getting fed up with all this bullshit.

Ha ha, Dread you're right on. What about other prisoners w/ illness? He did say that he would consider cases that were presented to him, but do working-class and poor prisoners have a direct line to the president or the justice minister?

The DR is a country where money makes connections (like anywhere else), and this means that the rich can present their case directly to the president or even the POPE for the right price ;-)

and now enters the new Tony the tiger ....welcome to DT your under stated opinions are welcome ...you are not alone in your frustration and in your desire to " string her up " so to speak...cooler heads will prevail

Written by: gouletcolonial, 31 Dec 2008 9:08 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Colonial Zone Calle Comercio
Investors are pulling out left and right ....Pull out thats what joseans father should have done Pulled Out

At least I know whose my father!

Ley # 967-98----- Rich thieves who are willing to pretend that they are ill are entitled to pardons as well as all other benefits that their wealth can buy.

Ha ha.... good one Juanb!

ladrona, vieja sucia!

"ladrona, vieja sucia!"

Who, Ms. Castillo or Ms. Fernandez?

josean, both of them.

"Christian and humanitarian " is one thing .

Not thinking this through was a huge mistake for LF.
Whether they are sick or not they commited a huge crime and their kids are in New York Paris, LA and Vegas ... living like kings from the spoils... and laughing about it.
F@#$%^G as#$%les !!!

Here is the full monty! So you can throw up your MANGU!

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=86271

Another medal to be worn by leonel and his cronies.
Justice pervails in the DR only when punctuatied with money.

The poor shlep that steals a bag of sugar because he is diabetic and can't afford health care goes to a DR jail for 10 years with no hope of leaving his prison cell.

Viva la corrupcion, viva el dinero.

Someday the revolution will come and people will stand up for their rights and oust these fanatic corrupt Leonel's, Hippolito's and all their cronies. They then will be strung up like Saddam Hussein in the morning.

All of them. Amen

what Vivian Lubrano is doing is so similar to what Salvador Jorge Blanco did back in the days when he was call to respond for all those corruption charges under his presidency.

The man used to show up at his court hearing sitting on a wheelchair holding up his Suero.

CLASSIC.

Is just so funny how history repeat itself time and time again and El pueblo don't do nothing.

" Cada pueblo tiene el govierno que se merece "
Jose Marti.

that is such a reality today my fellow Dominicanz, Hatianz and Loquacious Texans.

“Christian and humanitarian and in sympathy with the beneficiaries’ precarious states of health”.

Where is this clowns sympathy for the Dominican people who are still sufferening because of the actions of those he pardoned? I lost a whole lot of respect for you Mr. Fernandez.

What a POS ! What a loser !

Impeach LF. I've lost ALL respect for him.

You want to do something humanitarian? Feed, cloth and educate the poor who suffer more from people like her.

"we did not see any evidence of you requesting the names of sick inmates at Victoria who are doing 30 years for stealing a chivo."

Exactly. I guess you have to belong to a certain class to recieve sympathy or any consideration based on humanitarian or christain principles from the likes of Leonel.

"Finjus Vice President Servio Tulio Castanos said the decision confirms the notion that the law is a myth in the DR."

Source DR1

Lubrano the beauty queen?

Members of the public and private sector are expressing surprise and anger at the pardon granted to former Baninter manager Vivian Lubrano. Though initially the anger was directed at the fact that Lubrano had not served the minimum percentage of her sentence and that the Pardons Committee was not informed of the decision before the announcement, the latest reports have added fuel to the fire. El Caribe reports that Lubrano, who claimed she could not serve her sentence at Najayo because of medical reasons, was seen at a beauty salon only moments after the pardon was announced and then attended a family party. It seems to many that her pardon miraculously cured Lubrano or raises suspicion that her health ailments were in fact a jail evasion ploy.

Continued:

Artagnan Perez Mendez, lawyer for the Monetary and Finance Authority says the decision by the President is a "joke that has angered the public because it freed a person who only spent days in jail, and who is partially responsible for the biggest fraud the nation has ever seen. She is directly responsible for the RD$27 million in bank funds that were never returned." He added that in the next constitutional reform the power to pardon should be removed from the Executive Branch's power and given to the Supreme Court. Finjus Vice President Servio Tulio Castanos said the decision confirms the notion that the law is a myth in the DR.

"Fernández called a press conference yesterday where he declared he would favor anyone who had been unfairly imprisoned. " I guess El presidente "Lobo Fraude" is in contempt of court if he believes that these folks were "Unfairly Imprisoned". Cibaeño75 expressed it best with his statement. "we did not see any evidence of you requesting the names of sick inmates at Victoria who are doing 30 years for stealing a chivo." Well the Church used to sell "indulgences" so the rich could buy a place in "Heaven". "Lobo Fraude" is probably selling pardons so these crooks can enjoy the fruits of their thievery.

"Finjus Vice President Servio Tulio Castanos said the decision confirms the notion that the law is a myth in the DR. "

¿Pero ahora es que se dan cuenta? The law has been a myth in DR since the state's inception. Leonel. thanks for keeping our traditions alive, even the most sordid ones.

That was dread's quote, Juan.

The Dominican Republic will ALWAYS be a third world country.

This woman should not have enough money to afford a beauty saloon.

The ONLY thing Dominicans can be transparent about is their corruption. They wear it as a badge of honor.

You guys got to read this, if you haven't already!

Like all wealthy right wingers she now blames the press for the public's outrage at this travesty of justice.

http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=183432

This chick could go to all the beauty salons she wants...she'll still be a detestable looking old bitty on top of the fact that she's a lying, conniving thief. All Dominicans who come across this woman's path should yell "Ladrona!" at her at the top of their lungs for as long as she remains on this earthly plain..i Know I have her hideous face committed to memory already though I almost went blind in the attempt.

SHANGHAI — The former chairwoman of one of China’s biggest dairy producers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling tainted powdered baby formula and acknowledged for the first time that the company knew of the problem months before alerting local officials to what has become one of the country’s biggest food-safety crises, according to the state-run news media.

The former executive, Tian Wenhua, is one of the highest ranking corporate executives to go on trial in China and could face life imprisonment or even the death sentence, according to legal experts and the local media.

You think she is buying her way out of this one?

You think she is buying her way out of this one?

If she has Dominican citizenship, YES!

Leonel really blew it with this one.
He has the audacity to say that insult to anybody's intelligence as it is well known by all that
Vivian Lubrano was just pretending to be ill to escape from being imprisoned.
The others who were pardoned are just more slime balls and future political allies.
He is behaving with so much "cara dura" that makes Balaguer look pale.
It is really disgusting and nauseating how low we have sank.
Like in the play who is afraid of Virginia Wolf:
" I am touching the bottom of the barrel with the tip of my toes"
These guys live in the bottom, they are bottom feeders.

I forecast a dire future and possibly criminal actions against this "in your face" woman thief.
Some day when she least expects it a self appointed vigilante will do justice on her.
Her boss Ramoncito Baez is in line to another pardon in 2009.
Leonel is making fun of the all Dominican citizens and patriots hungry for a little justice.
Last time there was so much ill feelings by millions of Dominicans against their president was in
April 24, 1965. When people went out in the streets after the call to arms was shouted in the radio,
when puppet president Donald Reid made a bravado on TV thinking he had real power behind him.
Real power by the people is only behind a government when the best interest of the citizens are jealously protected by their president, not made fun publicly of with insolent acts like this unforgivable and shameful pardon.

Vivian Lubrano was readmitted to the clinic because of all the public uproar against her release. Soon she will leave the country until things "cool off".
Up to today I had a great deal of admiration and respect for president Leonel Fernandez.
With this slap in the face to anyone with two fingers in his forehead and an idiot
degree of literacy, president Fernandez has insulted the majority of Dominicans
in a way that can not be imagined.
His political career will always be stained by this unforgivable public insult to Dominicans of all parties that are watching as bystanders this gross act of defiance and ill exercise of "above the law power" that knows no boundaries.
Today the euphoric intoxication in signing this pardon suggested by sycophants and all the cronyism cronies that surround him marks the beginning of the end of his otherwise brilliant political career.

"otherwise brilliant political career"

In what way?

josean
You can't take that away from him. He is a good talker, very knowledgeable with lot's of world savvy.
And has managed to stay in power against all odds. Much unlike his mentor Juan Bosch.
I will like to continue but I really have to go.
Happy New Year to you all, except the one whose name should not be mentioned.

"You can't take that away from him. He is a good talker, very knowledgeable with lot's of world savvy"

So was Hitler!

"And has managed to stay in power against all odds. Much unlike his mentor Juan Bosch."

Against what odds?

When has the The CIA and the US marines tryed to overthrow Lie-onel!

He is not qualifed to even think about holding Don Juan's jock strap!

Some people are just born lucky like Georgie Bush or are at the right place at the right time like Lie-onel!

The appearance of impropriety didn't seem to bother Leonel ....Sorry the president shouldn't be able to undo what the courts have passed sentence.

Thank you for speaking out against the misguided path our country has gone done .

quisling you are a moron...stay in power against the odds...this is more drivel ...are you drunk? are you high ? start making sense {.sycophants and cronyism cronies.}....or go to the showers

"president Fernandez has insulted the majority of Dominicans in a way that can not be imagined."

No truer words.

He is shameless. I've seen poor Dominicans herded like cattle for minor infractions. This lady and the other thieves spit in the face of justice and what is correct.

Strip her and her family of money, make them live in a barrio.

"This lady and the other thieves spit in the face of justice and what is correct."

No , no she is just the beneficiary, Lie-onel does the SPITTING!

Mr josean
Sorry, but I am back.
Yes although very young , I knew Don Juan Bosch briefly and respected him as a great writer and teacher. He was really an outstanding human being. But in reality most historians agree that he did not really like the role of
being president too much, and while in power the sense was that he was not comfortable being president and was happy that he was overthrown by the military. Historians also have the impression that when he did not return to DR promptly to claim his presidency in the first days of the revolution, stating the "plane was too small", denoted a hesitancy and ambivalence that became more pronounced in his later years after he broke with national heroes Francis Caamaño and José Francisco Peña Gomez.
Still do not take away merits from Leonel Fernandez, whatever his grave mistakes, cronyism
and abuses of power, he is still a masterful politician and great scholar who knows the value of good timing and influential alliances.

Oye viejo cubano loco. No hablas español? Tu eres un payaso nada más.
Un judio de Nueva York posando como Cubano. Que desvergonzado eres. Nadie ya te hace caso.
Escribes a las 10:12 PM de la noche del 31 de Diciembre se ve que no tienes a nadie que te quiera por odioso!

We are sorry as well And I am not so young and know his son Leon very well when you see him ask him how many glasses of wine he has enjoyed from my balcony in the Zona Colonial {ask him about the Canadian born wine person}...but I doubt if he would know you from a speed bump you phony name dropper....ask Leon about one of his most famous portraits of John Gillen my great friend and one of the former owners of Drakes Pub...if you are old enough to even remember...I wish I had not mentioned their names I am sure you will accuse them of wife beating ,bestiality larceny or something else you jerk you will bolt anything out of the blue out of the blue....save you the Jew baiting they were both Catholics

I knew Juan Bosch and you are no Juan Bosch you are a loser..... quisling you punk

josean
I read the article about Vivian declarations in the radio program "el gobierno de la mañana" stating that she is really sick and that Dominicans should have compassion for her.
Soon she will develop the "stockholm syndrome" and really start suffering from the up to now faked
symptoms. Like W.C. Fields used to say: You can't fool all the people all the time....but you can fool enough of them to make a decent living" LOL.
She is living in her now own self inflicted hell hole, and she deserves no better for her shameless
scams. Like O.J. Simpson who initially escaped justice, and then his karma came back to get him. She like Judas will be so persecuted and hated by all that she will find no comfort in her ill gained fortune and one day will repent and end it all to do the world, the rest of humanity and all Dominicans a big favor.
Vivian you can run but you can't hide! One day justice will be done, meanwhile enjoy your ill gotten freedom in the dark hole you crawl in.

Leon even asked me question about the Italian wine venture here I remember in my senility ...it was about 5 years ago ...I told him it would be a scam...I was right ...just to beat the taxes ..for the junk at the all inclusives

"great scholar"

Maybe *2 and *3 but definitely not 1 a. or b.

Please refer me to some critically renowned writings from the this "great SCHOLAR."


schol·ar (sklr)
n.
1.
a. A learned person.
b. A specialist in a given branch of knowledge: a classical scholar.

*2. One who attends school or studies with a teacher; a student.

*3. A student who holds or has held a particular scholarship.

Mr GC know nothing about nothing.
León Bosch is an recurrent alcoholic and also great impressionist painter.
He is also not only a wife beater but a wife kidnapper. If you really know him ask him about that and about his first wife in 1965 after he recovered from gunshot wounds by an assassin in Hospital Padre Billini.
If you want to know where to find him contact the Italian embassy in Rome, Italy. where he is the cultural attaché.
You see GC you know nothing about nothing. Go back to your lousy wine bottle you old drunk.
Or call up your other wife beating drunk friends.
Oh careful, do not spill the precious liquid in the computer keys!

Haitian Issues Department supervisor Luis Reyes Olmo, who is accused of extorting 100 dollars from Haitians leaving the country with correct documents....he deserves the same scorn this women who cooked the books does for stepping on peoples dreams

Gran Cabrón
you shameless copycat! Try to have some shameful originality!
The original quote was by US senator VP candidate LLoyd Bentsen to
VP candidate Dan quayle:
Sir, I knew John Kennedy well and you are no John Kennedy!

I knew you would do that you creep telling the world of what you consider their foibles you are no gentleman you are a swine....and my friend Leon is a generous wonderful guy who is not well.... He paints Portraits

GC,

Is John from Drakes still around?

I met him in the mid 90's at the Buger Hut in Boca -Chica , he use to ride his Honda out there on Sundays. He told me he was one of the original Bozo's and soon after I frequented Drakes the Oldest Pub in the America's..


This guy you are feuding with "Inquisidor" is a peice of work , isn't he?.. so bitter so insecure.

jander yes what a great story John Gillen attended Bozo clown school in the 50s when the original Bozo Larry Harmon used to farm out his creation to different cities ...John had the Bozo show and also managed a local TV station ..He would say how he loved to take meetings in his managers office with his Bozo shoes up on the desk ..John is a beautiful person a real Irish American...he now lives in Denver and last time I spoke with him he was hitting on 6 of 8 cylinders...yes Jander he was loved by all who new him and he was Leons best friend and sat for a famous portrait of Leons ....he would stay at his home in DC often when Leon was cultural attache to the US

You are a plagiarist as well as an old drunk Mr. GC.
You chose an opponent that will not rest until, like the vampire killers drives the stake into your rotten heart, so you will stop spreading your vicious hate and misinformation to the world, pretending that you have anything worthy to share but more of your sorry mucus.
The truth hurts but very few can drink from that well, you need a clear head for that you boozer.
Give it up you old drunk and buy some more cheap wine and get smashed with your other alcoholic wife beating friends.

I prefer to use the term inexpensive or budget oriented ,consumer friendly or affordable but not cheap ....People are are cheap and cheesy and tacky and without class... just like yourself Quisling....But not wine

You Are DOA you old drunk BARATO wine boozer, I will be on to you like a doberman to a salami.

have you not humiliated yourself enough quisling ?....go sleep it off ....and get a new personality while you are at it

Wao, first we have to see who we are talking about, who is the pardon being granted to and we have to question, would it have been the same if It was I or any other average Dominican the criminal? Certainly not, if it was an average Dominican man, it would not be in the papers in the first place. Where is the Humanitarian aid for the hundreds of older and sick men who are jailed in Najayo, and how many more Christians are imprisoned but there's not sympathy for them. There is only sympathy for the elite, only they help each other and how they say in Dominican "al resto que se los lleve el diablo." http://nicolasdelvalle.wordpress.....cia-dominicana-sinonimo-de-burla/