Hastert bribed by Abramoff on Marianas - Hastert enabled sex slavers for $

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Hastert bribed by Abramoff on Marianas - Hastert enabled sex slavers for $

Edited on Fri Oct-06-06 09:34 PM by Dems Will Win

Hastert helped stop reform in the Marianas, Abramoff's client meets Bush Through Bribery

Susan Ralston, who just resigned tonight, helped inside Rove's office, to stop reform in the Marianas, where sex slavery, forced labor and forced abortion are common.

In 1999 Hastert becomes Speaker and the push is on to end the abuse on CNMI. Denny is there to block justice and protect the abuse

On April 29, 1999, Rep Bob Franks (NJ) introduced HR1621 to prohibit CNMI from using "Made in USA". The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Trade in the House Ways & Means Committee on May 11, 1999. The House Leadership killed the bill in that Committee.

Between May 26, 1999 and June 16, 1999, Denny Hastert would collect more than $20,000 from the sweatshop interest of CNMI for his Keep Our Majority Leadership PAC:

On May 26, 1999 Keep Our Majority received $12,500 from individuals tied to CNMI sweatshops: $2500 from E. Inos; $5000 from J. Pangelinan; and $5000 from B. Fitial (who, as I've mentioned, is very connected to Abramoff in press reports and various Guilty pleas).

On June 16, 1999 Keep Our Majority takes in an additional $7500 from more sweatshop interests on CNMI: $5000 from D. Sablan and $2500 from Frank Camacho.

And on May 6, 1999 Hastert's PAC received $5000 from J. Karen Butler (the NewStar PAC treasure with a number of connections to Abramoff and the GOP slush Fund)

In addition to these donations, Hastert has received at least another $68,000 from Abramoff and his clients--more than anybody else in Congress.

So, instead of ending the abuse, the GOP Leadership went after turn their focus on the members of the Clinton Administration who were trying to end the abuse. Between 1999 and 2000 they held Hearings to condemn DOI officials who discovered the Abramoff slush fund and Jack's corruption of Congress. These officials where driven from office by Team Abramoff and the level of corruption grew faster than Denny's waistline.

With Hastert's help the Abramoff slush fund evaded disclosure in 1999 and the system of sweatshops, human trafficking, force prostitution and forced abortion on CNMI was protected. It did not bother Denny that their were many children among the victims.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/6/151223/489

Here is what Hastert, Delay, and hundreds of GOP reps like John Sweeney and Brian Bilbray enabled:

Statement of Female Minor
Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Hearing on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
March 31, 1998

When I came to Saipan in 1995, 1 was 14. My passport said I was 21 and I was a tourist. My boss told me in the Philippines that I would be a dancer but not naked. The first day he forced us to dance naked. He said don't tell your age or that you are a tourist. I was shocked. He said if you don't follow me, the door is open. Buy your own ticket and pay back the $1,000 promotion fee. I had no choice. I had no money. I was so scared. I'm so young, I don't know what's going on.

I thought laws in America protect workers and treat people with respect. I thought I would make good money to send home to my family. But I was treated like an animal. Life was really hell in Saipan. I couldn't believe America would let bosses take away my childhood. I should have been in school, not working there naked. I was ashamed. I still have friends there who are suffering like I suffered. I'm not the only one. Many workers are in bad condition. I don't want this to happen to anybody else like happened to me.

When I started my job, I didn't want to take my clothes off. My boss was swearing at me. I was just crying. I took my clothes off and he made me do splits. It really hurt me. He said he would teach me to dance. He wanted me to be a star because I'm younger than everybody. What could I do? I learned how to use cough medicine so I don't know what I'm doing. When I learned how to drink, I'm always drunk and they took advantage of me. They put their fingers inside me but I can't do anything about it. My boss said the customer is always right. One customer bit my nipple so hard that I just slapped him. One time a customer punched me on my bare stomach. They try to push sex on me in front of everybody on stage. The customers at the bar were everybody, like local people. Some customers are crazy. My boss told me to light a cigarette from my mouth and put it in my vagina. He was so mad at me because I would not spread my legs. So many times I burned my legs. The customers would come up and light their cigarettes between my legs. I had to put my mouth on their private parts and sometimes they came inside me. Sometimes my boss told us girls to have sex together so the customers wouldn't get bored. They took videos of me many times on the stage doing "shower shows" and "cigarette shows" for commercials and to put in magazines.

My body hurt. My heart hurt. I cried a lot and I was scared. But I had no choice. I had no money to buy a ticket to go home. What could I do? When my boss said he was sending me to Hong Kong, I was really scared. My friend went there and they made her a prostitute.

Three years later I am still trying to get justice for what happened to me and the other girls. But nothing has changed. What happened to me was against the law. New laws can help other girls. It's too late for me.

I was born in Manila on June 9, 1981. My parents were squatters and they fought a lot. I quit school and ran away when I was 12.1 looked for a job. I met Kate Zamora and she got me a job in the Pambuli Club as a G.R.O. That means a guest reception officer. When I danced in Manila I gave my mother money. She knew where I worked and sometimes visited. Then the money became less and less.

The first time I met Kate's father, Eugene Zamora, he took videos and pictures of me in the club. It was my first time to dance naked. I didn't have any hair between my legs because I was young.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2177749

If Denny Hastert enabling sex slavers on the Marianas Islands for Abramoff's $$ makes you mad RECOMMEND!