9024: Bribes

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: NLaleau@aol.com

Dear Shipper of Relief Items,

I was very familiar with the  problem of  having to give  bribes to
customs  
officials in in the Duvalier years, and even during the years of the "de 
factos" and on into the mid-nineties, before  there had been time for 
Aristide to  clean out the crooks from  the Douane.  I find it  hard  to 
believe  that this still continues in this far-advanced year of Aristide's  
second tenure... surely your organization has enough contacts with people
in 
the government to get word to the president that this abuse is going
on--if 
he knew about it, he would surely stop it, wouldn't he?

Nancy Laleau