Well-connected Miami business wiz faces a barrage of lawsuits (Haiti NGO connections)

[Billy Burnett]

Well-connected Miami business wiz faces a barrage of lawsuits
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/12/v-fullstory/2112584/well-connected-businessman-faces.html

Only days after Haiti’s massive earthquake, entrepreneur Claudio Osorio boarded a private jet with an entourage of movers and shakers: former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, ex-U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, one-time FEMA director David Paulison, Miami businessman Chris Korge and Osorio’s philanthropist wife, Amarilis.
The Gulfstream G550 belonged to Ryan Freedman, the young scion of a wealthy New York family, who had loaned $3.75 million to Osorio’s latest venture, InnoVida, a manufacturer of high-tech, prefabricated wall panels for low-cost housing.
The jet was loaded with a team of doctors and tons of medicine for the Haitian people, but the humanitarian trip was also the public relations opportunity of a lifetime for Osorio and his new company.
Now, more than a year later, the promise of that flight seems like a distant memory: Osorio has made no progress on his pledge to build a community of InnoVida “cabins” in Haiti, where tens of thousands still live in tents and other make-shift shelters. Instead, Osorio himself confronts the stark reality of a major court fight with several angry investors and lenders, who say the Venezuelan-born entrepreneur deceived them. Korge, Freedman, pro basketball star Carlos Boozer and others are suing the high-flying Miami Beach businessman and his company for tens of millions of dollars amid allegations of fraud.
InnoVida’s board of directors — which once boasted marquee names such as Clark, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Miami condo king Jorge Perez in company promotional materials — has also been disbanded.

Much more at ... http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/12/v-fullstory/2112584/well-connected-businessman-faces.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Unbelievable! This guy is someone Jorge Mas would have admired, isn't he?

Close to all the politicians Jorge Mas used to love to rub elbows with.

First time I've heard of Osorio. There's got to be so much more about him still to come out.

If you hear any more about this guy, Billy Burnett, please let us in on it. It would be very interesting in finding out more about him and his cronies. Knowing Jeb Bush is in his cluster of acquaintances is enough to give him a bad smell already.

This is really, REALLY wierd. The whole story needs to be revealed.

Mighty vicious of him to screw over Haitian homeless, after their unbearable tragedy.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Remember the DU poutrage over the forced relocation of Haitian tent cities for permanent housing?

"Osorio has made no progress on his pledge to build a community of InnoVida “cabins” in Haiti, where tens of thousands still live in tents and other make-shift shelters."

Bamboozled. Again.

[Bacchus39]

3. remember that well, some advocated Haitians should remain in tents

rather than move into houses and have a job.

[naaman fletcher]

5. some..

some also said that one of the main problems in Haiti is that the US forced Haiti to let in multininational agribusiness which made Haiti not food sufficient. If you read the venezuela analysis story I posted the other day, it appears that Chavez is doing the same thing.

[naaman fletcher]

4. so

we can trust the miami hurled now?