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No end to fraud cases involving Cristina Fernandez vice-president Boudou
Argentina's controversial Vice-President Amado Boudou received yet another judicial headache on the same day as he took over the role of the country's interim head of the Executive as President Cristina Fernández travelled to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis this Saturday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis gets better and better for the CFK Government. PMSL
Sep 20th, 2014 - 07:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Incompetent even at embezzlement and conversion and laundering. What about the printing presses and the plates and the serialization issues. We need further investigation. Were pesos counterfeited by government vendors? Was Boodoo the mastermind or the fall guy?
Sep 20th, 2014 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0It appears to this outsider reader; and a foreigner, that the pursuit of corruption by the Argentine judges, lawyers and some courageous officials shows to remind some of those spleen blogger -activists, that not all Argentinians are in the current government's pocket. Emphatically unfair to think so; and probably, in some, due to an untreatable synapse impairment.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0(2) You have a point: investigation will no doubt proceed, but the investigators- if experience is anything to go by- will have a lot of obstacles put their way.
Oh to see him in handcuffs. The first of many to come. And today he is acting president...while cfk is off to lie to the pope.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3. Ever heard the word 'scapegoat'? Or 'diversion'?
Sep 20th, 2014 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is amazing to me that the Arg population puts up with this nonsense. In a civilized country this guy would be in jail.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The level of scumminess is flabbergasting.
I can see Cristina singing to Kickitoff :
Sep 20th, 2014 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Tell me, why should it be
you have the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell,
Do do that Boudou
that you do so well!”
Endemic corruption. Disgusting!
Sep 20th, 2014 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does anyone get convicted in Argentina? Or is the whole of the Judiciary rotten to the core?
Sep 20th, 2014 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He should be called “Atorrante” and be given the position of President of Corruption ! Obviously a student of Italy's famous teflon Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi
Sep 20th, 2014 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 010. Were I Silvio - I would be highly insulted by your comparison. Berlusconi has little respect for social convention but boodoo is a mere piker and petty grifter. SB has actually been responsible for generating some wealth.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(3) Lots of times: but not yet.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really don't know why there is all this fuss.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We in Uruguay have a murdering, bank robbing, commie Tupas bastard as the president.
Great example to the young people.
@13 ChrisR,
Sep 20th, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Right on....we should be used to it by now.....As you say, Uruguay has a commie Tupa ; Brazil has a corrupt urban guerilla fighter who brags about her 30 days in jail....and a 9-fingered toad ; Argentina has a botox-filled liar and a thief ; Boliland has a 'coke' grower ; VZ has a bus driver ; Paraguay had a lecherous bishop .... prospects aren't looking too good...
#14 yip and they all govern on that they are always right and when they're wrong they're still right. There is little true democracy in these places.
Sep 20th, 2014 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 imoyaro
Sep 21st, 2014 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the reply. “One for the money, two for the show?”
This guy should be suspended until the court case is over.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0It looks bad in the international community.
@17
Sep 21st, 2014 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do they have courts in South America as not many criminals are incarserated?
The justice system here, like everything else, is so slow moving, it almost goes backward. Some cases just expire, while others just disappear. Nothing works here. Sadly, the population doesn't seem to care. When I try to talk about these kind of things its always the same “there is nothing we can do”. They just don't seem to get it.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0And yet he remains in office. Anyone notice how the trolls seemed to have disappeared.....from all articles? They must be retooling for the big December finale.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@20
Sep 21st, 2014 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why don't they suspend him until he proves himself innocent or does it not work like that in Latam? I suppose he is getting topnotch US$ to remain where he is.
The guy that attacked the tourist is apparently sorry and still walking the streets. He's also very upset he's getting threatened on Social Media.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0boo hoo
They know who he is, they know where he lives yet the Police do nothing.
Something tells me he probably was working for the police.
@ 22 yankeeboy
Sep 21st, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Having read Clarin today it appears much worse than that: one of the judges appears to be involved.
No real surprise there of course.
Nope no surprise.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentinian people have no ball's to take on their corrupt government the commies are taking down their country and the military just looking and when the public order become chaotic they will take over.
Sep 21st, 2014 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No country can survive without reserves and credit unless they are implementing the north Korea system, the rope is tightening slowly around their neck.
@19
Sep 21st, 2014 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have spent many years in Venezuela. Sadly this is true. In my experience everything is open to corruption in one form or another.
@18
See above.
:-(
& 21
Sadly you are correct in your suspicions.
It makes me sad.
#21. No idea. Here in the states just one substantial charge usual has the politician resigning. I think in latam you resign when you are inprocessinv in prison.
Sep 22nd, 2014 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's coming.
Sep 22nd, 2014 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excuse Nr. 9.
One assumes that when before the judge, his attorney will blame it all on the Vulture Funds, The US Embassy, and US Judge Griesa.
All will then be forgiven, Papa will bless him, and he will succeed CFK for decades to come as the next President, while the default continues..
@23 Actually it's even worse than just a corrupt judge. The thief was from Vatayon Militante, a government-backed mafia. There is word that the government called the prosecutor to drop the case and declare him innocent.
Sep 22nd, 2014 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@29
Sep 22nd, 2014 - 05:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can see why.
http://seprin.info/2014/09/21/el-vatayon-militante-detras-del-motochorro/
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