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A government file pertinent to two civil law suits alleging bribery doesn't just get up and walk out of a supposedly secure federal-agency record rooming Washington. More recently they have been aired in two separate civil suits filed in two different U.S. federal courts. The alleged quid pro quo for the U.S. companies that agreed to pay the bribes was access to the Teleco network at rates below the uniform "international settlement rate" set by the FCC. In 2000, questions arose about Fusion Telecommunications, which had a concession to terminate calls in Haiti and which, according to sources, had an office inside Teleco. Marvin Rosen (finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee from September 1995 until January 1997), former Democratic Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Bill Clinton confidante Thomas (Mack) McLarty III were all on the board of Fusion. Mr. Rosen was Fusion chief executive officer. Rumors abounded in Haiti that Fusion had a sweetheart deal with Mr. Aristide that gave the U.S. firm rates well below the international settlement rate.
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