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Legitimate companies are too busy running their businesses to waste time and assets on throwing money at lawyers to chase pesky journalists in Panamanian kangaroo criminal courts. But not Patrick Visser's Silva Tree, which has filed a criminal complaint against us and the Christian Science Monitor. UPDATE: Logging in Surinam, extortion.
Patrick Visser of Silva Tree is the latest rogue to join Monte Friesner and Don Winner in their Panama jihad against journalism.
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.
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.
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.