SOME OF THE SUSPECTS IN THE CARIBBEAN CBI SCANDAL ARE U.S.CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS; HOW WILL THAT WORK OUT FOR THEM?

SLC CIU Risk Officer Patricia Pierre, US citizen

One of the ways that corrupt Caribbean leaders game the system is to make very sure that they will, ultimately, be able to eventually reside in the Continental United States with their ill-gotten gains. Once their bribes & kickbacks have been artfully laundered into investments and bank accounts in America, they generally wish to fade into affluent oblivion somewhere in the U.S., far from the constituents that they purportedly served, while lining their pockets with filthy lucre. They can, of course, thank their money launderer for cleaning, and thereafter, investing in income-producing assets anonymously, somewhere in the world's biggest economy.

Former B of A VP, SKN CIU head Les Khan; US citizen

Their foresight, in positioning themselves through acquiring American citizenship or residential privileges, for their themselves or a close family member, so they can better facilitate their status later, may have now just come back to bite them, as individuals in Saint Kitts & Nevis, and in Saint Lucia, have unwittingly facilitated any eventual criminal indictment by doing so. Their own US citizenship, or legal residency, could actually facilitate charging decisions about venue. Every time these targets enter the U.S.A., spend their proceeds of crime while enjoying their illicit wealth, they potentially give Federal prosecutors an additional District to charge them, as well as a supplemental criminal act or two.

Confident to politicians and to China; Hartley Henry; lawful Permanent Resident

Whether US citizenship or Lawful Permanent Residency result in their earlier indictment, which might be in a District they won't be especially enthusiastic about being detained, or tried in, depends upon the individual, but they may quickly regret their pre-planning citizenship to grease in their eventual Miami residency, after being booted out of office.