FNM Leaders Harboring Fugitive, says Attorney

With just days to go before the General Elections in the Bahamas, the Prime Minister and some of his Cabinet Members are being accused of helping a foreign investor evade prosecution.  Their attempts were so desperate to protect this investor, it was claimed, that a major mistake was made that will pave the way for the complainant to get an audience before the court.

Pericles Maillis

Senior Attorney Pericles Mailis faced the courts just days ago surrounding this case.  He was accused of conspiring with others to use libel to defame the character of Peter Nygard.   Attorneys Keod Smith and Alfred Sears brought a criminal prosecution case last week against Mailis and others, accusing them of fulfilling the wishes of Louis Bacon in his scheme to defame and disgrace his Lyford Cay neighbor, Peter Nygard.  Mailis, along with a private investigator, a police officer, Lyford Cay manager, and executives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation were to face a criminal suit with Bacon as the main defendant. 

The Attorney General's office intercepted the procedure before Magistrate Janine Weech-Gomez and entered a nolle prosequi to cause the case to be dropped.  But the Attorney General made a serious error when he signed the nolle prosequi without ensuring that the main person he was trying to protect was listed on the document.  By failing to make sure that Louis Bacon was to be covered by the annulment, AG Delaney has opened the way for Bacon's alleged deceitful tactics to be exposed.   

Bacon is a known friend of the governing Free National Movement, and its Cabinet members have covered up for him in the past.  When Bacon dug up the shoreline to make a home for his new mega-yacht, Minister of Environment Earl Deveaux allowed his officers to issue Bacon a permit even though he had broken the law.  This was admitted by the Leader of Government Business in the Senate Dion Foulkes while speaking from the Upper House.

Louis Bacon

Bacon's speaker weapons camouflaged in bushes for use against Nygard

Then Bacon broke the law again when he brought in super sonic sound speakers known as Long Range Acoustic Devices which are used by the military to control very large crowds, leaving many to wonder how such dangerous equipment could have come into the country in the first place.  When word got out that such dangerous weapons were in the possession of a foreign resident, police held a raid at Bacon's Point House and seized them.  Bacon's lawyer admitted to the media that his client did use the powerful speaker weapons on Nygard, his employees and guests.  Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest told the public a different story, leading many critics to point out that a series of cover-ups for Bacon were occurring.  Turnquest said the concern was that the LRADs were affecting the signals that air traffic controllers relay to incoming flights.  Strangely enough, the speakers were returned to Bacon.  The public responded with a series of calls into local talk shows, stating that there was an obvious double standard being set here, and that it was a dangerous one considering the escalating crime rate.  

Tommy Turnquest

raid at Bacon's Point House home

This time, the biggest cover up is being effected by the country's chief of law, the Attorney General, who sought to stop a case against Bacon, even though there was enough evidence based on international cases already in progress, for the case to be heard before a judge.  Critics say it doesn't help that Delaney is also a Lyford Cay resident.

AG Delaney

Attorney Smith said that due to the fact that Bacon was left out of the nolle prosequi, he is now considered a fugitive of the courts until such time as he is either brought before the courts, or the AG's office seeks to correct the mistake at which time a representative of Bacon must still appear.  

Smith believes Bacon is in the Bahamas and is evading the summons which ought to be served on him in light of the recent developments of the case.

"We consider Bacon to be a fugitive of the law attempting to avoid service of a legitimate court process that he is fully aware of; and certain government officials are also aware of this,"said Smith.  "The Attorney General, Earl Deveaux, Tommy Turnquest  and even the Prime Minister are all aware of his whereabouts and are essentially harboring a fugitive."

Bacon has been relentless in his attempt to destroy his neighbor, and Nygard claims it all started when he refused an offer for the purchase of his beloved Nygard Cay.  Since then, his home suffered a massive fire, and government officials have refused to grant him a permit that, in this case, should have been granted a long time ago, for his home to be renovated.  

Earl Deveaux

Government officials seem not to care about Nygard's proposition for the rebuilding of his home, which would employ over 300 Bahamians over a three year period.  It seems more important to them to ensure that Bacon, whom sources point to as one of the financiers of the FNM 2012 election campaign, stays out of trouble even though he is the one apparently stirring it up.

He got his attorney Mailis into hot water by having him hire Jerry Forrester, private investigator, and disgraced police officer Bradley Pratt, to extort Nygard and also pay over $10,000 for former employees of Nygard to come forward and speak ill of Nygard on Canadian national television.  Mary Brathwaite, Managing Director of the Lyford Cay Property Owners Association is tied up in the case as she failed to step in much earlier in this war between neighbors when Bacon built an entire easement over a portion of Nygard's property, which significantly changed the face of the entrance to Nygard Cay.  The easement, which is the subject of a case in the Supreme Court between Nygard and Bacon, also causes a serious flooding problem at Nygard Cay every time it rains.

In Canada, judges have already given Nygard the nod to proceed with a defamation and libel case against Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executives for airing a documentary called "Larger that Life"on their Fifth Estate programme knowing that there were falsehoods being propagated against a well known Canadian fashion designer whose activities have been beneficial to Canada, his birth home, and the Bahamas, his beloved home and retreat, which inspires most of his outstanding fashion designs.  

Bacon is also under international surveillance as one of his employees at Moore Capital Investments is listed on a criminal rap sheet centered a round a multi-billion dollar international scam.