AMID mounting criticisms over the Government’s credibility, Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday admitted in Parliament that he had given the green light for the ruling party to engage the services of US law firm Manatt Phelps and Phillips.
Golding confessed that he had “sanctioned” persons in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to approach Manatt Phelps and Phillips to lobby the United States administration to drop its extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to face drug and gun-running charges there.
(Read the full presentation here:)
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding-confesses-manatt_7605025
Statement in Parliament on Extradition and Manatt firm, by the Hon Bruce Golding, Prime Minister