A South African company in the spotlight for paying $100,000 in
speaking fees to White House adviser David Plouffe is also in business
with a Liberian official under U.N. sanctions for his ties to convicted
war criminal and former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor.
That's among the latest details to emerge on the connections
involving MTN Group, a subsidiary of which paid President Obama's former
campaign manager for engagements in late 2010, shortly before he joined
the White House.
The ties to Liberia's bloody Taylor era center on Benoni Urey, who
was commissioner of maritime affairs in Liberia during Taylor's reign.
Urey remains on the U.N. assets-freeze and travel-ban list, even though a
U.N. committee last month removed more than a dozen other Taylor allies
from the list.
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