WHEN THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF DOMINICA ACCEPTED A ONE MILLION DOLLAR BRIBE TO SWITCH HIS COUNTRY'S RECOGNITION FROM TAIWAN TO CHINA

Turn the clock back to the year 2004; the newly-elected young Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica , who took office without the benefit of an earned university degree, received an offer that he simply could not refuse; change Dominica's diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China, from its current recognition of Taiwan, and a million dollars (USD$1,000,000) in cash was his for the taking.

Skerrit consented to receiving the bribe, and the funds were quietly transferred to a U.S. bank, under the care, custody and control of a close relative, who is a financial services professional, and who has held these assets for him since that period, so no questions would be raised over how a PM in a poor Caribbean state could posses such wealth.

There are reports from Dominica that his cousin has invested this money wisely in America, into income-producing real estate. Of course, in doing so, most lawyers would opine that she has violated the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). We trust that she has retained the professional services of a capable American criminal defense attorney , because she may be in need of one, with the publication of this story.

The 900-man Chinese Embassy in Dominica

Although PM Skerrit may have since become fabulously wealthy, by virtue of not only the bribes and kickbacks paid to him over the past two decades in office, as well as the case paid him for the illicit sale of Dominica diplomatic passports to career criminals, this first dirty million he grabbed and had deposited in an American bank may just be his undoing; Only time will tell, because the United States is watching.