Arrested Pilot in Business with former Clinton White House OfficialThursday, February 19, 2009
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Michael Francis Brassington, the pilot arrested two weeks ago on felony charges in the February 2005 crash of a Challenger business jet at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, flew illegal charter flights for corrupt Premier Michael Misick of the Turks & Caicos Islands on Gulfstream jets owned by a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
A British Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the Turks & Caicos Islands last week heard testimony that former Guyanese pilot military Brassington, currently facing a 23-count indictment in Federal Court in Newark for endangering passengers lives, has since several months after the Challenger jet crash been in business with Misick,who was just forced to resign, using jets provided by Jeffrey Watson, a former Clinton Aide and now a Washington lobbyist.
Brassington and Turks & Caicos Premier Michael Misick conspired to induce the island's government to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to Watson, testimony revealed, to lease two high-end Gulfstream III luxury business jets.
The men engineered an air charter deal that paid Watson more than $160,000-a-month from the coffers of the Turks & Caicos' nearly-bankrupt government, which was at the same time eliminating all student scholarships in a desperate bid to remain solvent.
Jeffrey Watson is a former housing official in Miami who became a Clinton White House Aide in 1993, when he was responsible for doling out $75 million in Federal government largesse after the devastation of Hurricane Andrew.
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel called Watson “Florida's insider at the White House.”
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