US Attorney General with ties to Chiquita, resigns
The attorney general said that “work remains to be done, but our list of accomplishments is real.” He also stated that serving in the job has been the greatest honour of his professional life.
During his period as attorney general, the Justice Department failed to hold banks accountable for their role in the economic calamity of 2008, subpoenaed secret Associated Press reporters' and editors' phone records, and approved the CIA's assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen in Yemen allegedly working with al-Qaida.
Holder is also responsible for agreeing to the National Security Agency's collecting of millions of Americans' phone records.
Before Eric Holder was appointed to the position of attorney general, he represented Chiquita and negotiated a deal for the banana company to pay the Justice Department US$25 million after the fruit distributor admitted to giving US$1.7 million to a paramilitary group United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which the State Department lists as a terrorist organization.
Chiquita's economic support for the AUC continued even after Chiquita's public admission. Colombia's attorney general says that the payments were made to stop labour organizing from upsetting the production of bananas and that 4,000 people were killed by these paramilitaries.
Source: telesurtv.net