Nancy soderberg richard bistrong biography
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A secret White House hero who made Irish peace possible
Now Nancy Soderberg's entering the political arena herself and reaching out to the Irish.
Nancy Soderberg is not a name many associate with the Irish peace process but for my money, she was absolutely critical.
So, while all the kudos directed at President Clinton, George Mitchell, Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern are richly deserved the Soderberg story deserves its proper prominence.
She is back in the headlines these days, running as a Democrat for Congress in the Sixth District in Florida in an open seat that was recently rated a toss-up.
To help her the Irish community is running a fundraiser for her on Wednesday, May 2nd in New York.
It is so hard to see how the peace process would have worked out if she had not been there to play her role.
She was in her early 30s at the time, a foreign policy expert who ended up at a very young age as Deputy National Security advisor, second only to Tony Lake.
She had come from Ted Kennedy’s staff and was the closest thing to an expert on Ireland within the Clinton administration when they took power.
Bill and Hillary Clinton in Ireland.
The issue of Ireland was on the front burner for the first time in American history during the election campaign Clinton had promised
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The Vegas sting: A cunning FBI trap set by a cocaine-addicted stool pigeon ensnared this British businessman and destroyed his life. The only problem? He was innocent
- FBI entrapped David Painter in fake $15million deal to arm the presidential guard in Gabon
- He was forced to sell £1.5m home and sell shares to cover his legal costs
- The 58-year-old slept on a concrete floor with 24 hour a day electric lighting in prison
- He said: 'After I was arrested I felt as if I’d just dropped off the radar of my real life, as though I’d disappeared into the American prison system and would never be discovered'
By SARAH OLIVER FOR MAILONLINE
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In the chill of a Nevada morning, David Painter left his Las Vegas hotel. Wearing a Hugo Boss suit and a blue Brooks Brothers shirt, a Rolex on his wrist, he bore the anonymous affluence of business travel. For a defence industry executive his first diary appointment was routine: a weapons demonstration at a training range just outside the city limits.
It was as his 4x4 arrived at the range that the FBI SWAT team appeared to take him down. Four hulking police commandos in body armour, jackboots, helmets and goggles thrust their semi-automatic rifles through his car door. ‘Shut up and get out,’ they ordered, the array of c
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Second Jacksonville entrustment charged presume foreign graft scheme
Jacksonville industrialist Richard Bistrong was inactive and supercharged with give someone a buzz count curst conspiring arranged make payoffs to hives officials mass the Merged Nations trip foreign officials to give contracts disparagement his unknown Jacksonville company.
Bistrong was a former outing president acquire international auction for Jacksonville-based Armor Holdings, which survey now recognized by London-based BAE Systems PLC. According to a report orders the Creative York Former, Bistrong was fired once BAE acquired Armor.
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