Monte Friesner’s lawyer José Luis García spent four years in jail »

Monte Friesner’s lawyer José Luis García spent four years in jail

Monte Friesner’s businesses are disintegrating and we learned that his incompetent lawyer, one José Luis García, spent four years in jail in a serious fraud case.

Legislator José Blandón’s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner »

Legislator José Blandón’s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner

While the pressure on Panama to clean up its legal system and corruption is mounting, a prominent legislator’s law firm is in bed with a convicted serial fraud artist from Canada.

Wild Bill – it’s a right wing thing »

Wild Bill – it’s a right wing thing

In all these years in Panama, we’ve not once come across a liberal left-wing progressive running a scam; it’s always a strange mix of Christian conservatism with a sauce of bizarre libertarianism, of very low intellectual fiber, as if you’re talking to the Down syndrome department of the Tea Party.

MasterCard® investigates Monte Friesner’s Pronto Cash debit card scheme »

MasterCard® investigates Monte Friesner’s Pronto Cash debit card scheme

Bananama Republic has learned that MasterCard’s fraud department is investigating Pronto Cash, a debit card scheme in Panama that is run by Canadian fraud artist Monte Friesner.

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser and Kavel Company’s Dennis Bode join Panama jihad on journalism »

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser and Kavel Company’s Dennis Bode join Panama jihad on journalism

Patrick Visser of Silva Tree and Dennis Bode of the Kavel Company are the latest rogues to join Monte Friesner and Don Winner in their Panama jihad against journalism.

Bananama Republic “frozen” by FCC? »

Bananama Republic “frozen” by FCC?

Scam pimp Don Winner screwed up again as he claimed that your Bananama Republic had been “frozen” by the American FCC to “preserve evidence” of defamation or whatever – and none of it is true.

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser sends the legal bullies »

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser sends the legal bullies

Law firm wants to shut us down! But we believe the public doesn’t need to be protected from Bananama Republic; it needs to be warned against hustlers like Patrick Visser and their rogue business schemes.

Co-author of Uruguay dictatorship crimes in XIV Premio Nacional de Periodismo jury »

Co-author of Uruguay dictatorship crimes in XIV Premio Nacional de Periodismo jury

Danilo Arbilla, co-author of numerous crimes against the media and journalists during the Uruguayan dictatorship, is somehow a member of the jury of Panamanian journalism awards.

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser joins list of hustlers trying to sue us »

Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser joins list of hustlers trying to sue us

Patrick Visser, the head of Silva Tree Panama, just wrote us an email announcing that his lawyers will start legal procedures to have what we wrote about him and his forestry outfit removed.

One flew over the Friesner nest – Facts behind the fiction »

One flew over the Friesner nest – Facts behind the fiction

Serial fraud artist Monte Friesner and serial scam pimp Don Winner appear to be suffering from an undiscovered yet potentially dangerous tropical psychiatric disease.

Panama is open for business (3): Silva Tree reforestation scam »

Panama is open for business (3): Silva Tree reforestation scam

And we have another great example of how just about any foreign swindler can set up shop in Panama: Silva Tree makes false claims and is led by a former real estate and timeshare con man.

Right wingnut website suggests Panama closes Canal to France »

Right wingnut website suggests Panama closes Canal to France

Panama’s biggest scam promoter campaigns to violate the neutrality of the Canal by closing it for France bound ships.

H.A. Engineering INC. kills cab driver and calls it an “accident” »

H.A. Engineering INC. kills cab driver and calls it an “accident”

In any normal country, this company would be sued for damages well into the many millions of dollars for security failures and responsibility for the death of the taxi driver. But this is Panama, the country of “los groceros somos más” where rich maleantes always get away with everything.

Stanford Panama deposited money in crooked Iceland bank »

Stanford Panama deposited money in crooked Iceland bank

Stanford Bank is being sold, but Bananama Republic just learned that Stanford Bank Panama represents one of the 28167 claims lodged against the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing Bank hf.

Panama is open for business (2): Government: “Contract? What contract?” »

Panama is open for business (2): Government: “Contract? What contract?”

Panama is open for business, but only if you like to be ripped off by our government crooks. In just one day, the Martinelli clique manages to get in hot water with Spain and Bolivia.

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