Having read that the current leader of Saint Kitts & Nevis PEOPLES' ACTION MOVEMENT has disputed the truth about its principal founder, WILLIAM VALENTINE HERBERT, JR., I hasten to correct the record. More than 40 years ago, I was a young Vietnam Veteran working as a lawyer who chose to throw his lot in with a number of other cynical veterans whose response to America's Draconian laws on marijuana use was to get involved in the lucrative narcotics trade. During a period when I had no moral compass, I laundered the proceeds of crime for drug traffickers in the then largely unregulated tax havens of the Caribbean. I make no excuses for my poor choices at that time in my life.
During that time I worked extensively with "Billy" Herbert, who helped with the money laundering, formed bearer share companies for me, assisted with anonymous UK vessel registrations, and involved me and my criminal clients in applying for the new Citizenship by Investment (CBI) economic passport scheme in Saint Kitts. Those activities later ground to a halt when a joint Scotland Yard/DEA task force, chasing millions of Pounds stolen in a major UK heist, ended up in attorney Herbert's chambers, where it found that he represented many foreign criminal clients. The rest is history, and to deny the truth of that period, for purely partisan political purposes, is error on both sides.
It is well know that I am not a fan of St. Kitts' Labour Party, but to ignore your country's dark past is to only invite future citizens to make those mistakes again. It is especially important, because Doctor Herbert's most egregious sin was to facilitate terrorist financing for the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which was responsible for his untimely and violent demise, just one of many facts that Saint Kitts as a nation chooses to forget, and sweep into the dustbin of history.
For those who wish the turbulent 1980s had never occurred, you must come to terms with it, starting with uncovering now declassified information from the UK and US, as my statements are based upon facts, and can be confirmed through research and reasonable inquiry. Kittitians, if you don't care about your history, future generations may be doomed to repeat those mistakes once again. I have come to terms regarding my role in that period; I suggest you do the same.







































