4GET THE AMERICANS, OUR BROTHERS OVER THERE FACES SAME PROBLEM MORE THAN WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT. YOU CANNOT GET REAL AMERICAN COME HERE TO LIVE. ALL THESE WHITE PEOPLE YOU SEE AROUND HERE , 90% OF THEM ARE CRIMINIALS WHO RAN AWAY FROM THEIR COUNTRY BECAUSE NIGERIA IS A DUMPING GROUND. LET THEM GET HIS ASSH BACK TO FACE THE MUSIC. THE WHITE ARE NOT BETTER THAN US. NIGERIAN ARE MORE INTELEGENT THAN THE AMERICANS. WHAT SPOILT OUR SYSTEM IS BECAUSE OF OUR LEADERS=CORRUPTION

nkilirox:

@Wales, it does not matter what crimes he committed, he has a point. The US cannot invade a foreign country and kidnap one of its citizens.  If they want to extradite anyone, then they have to follow the letter of the law,  just like they would expect any foreign government to do in their own country. They cannot come and do anything they like because they feel like it.

James Tillery is an American by birth not a Nigerian btw.

hauler:

^^^
Oh shut up! You never have anything good to say about Nigeria

Travelista:

Hauler, I'm tired of you saying I have nothing positive to say about Nigeria. I am CONSTANTLY talking about how much I love Nigeria and here comes your stalker behind adding nothing of value and taking a comment out of context. Seriously, go back to your miserable life and leave me alone.

yomitesp:


Nigeria is not a lawless country Don´t make me laugh !!!
Punks!!!

blackcat1:

If Nigeria was indeed lawless a lot of you will be dead by now. Do you even know what the word lawless means? Nigeria has laws and by no means is she a lawless country. silly  !

majoroller:

when Americans are arrested in other countries and even jailed,their authority will come and negotiate and asked for the person or persons to be released no matter what the crime is,and everyone knows this so why should we let people come here and take our citizens without proper process and you cant even take an American offender outside there ,they will tell you he'll be prosecuted there or even send a diplomat to deal with it and they always have their way even in odd situation ,why cant we emulate that i protect our own?

nopuqeater:

@Travelista: Its not so difficult to drop american citizenship at all. Many whites, showing their privileges do drop her as a country, for all sort of reasons; always because of disagreement with her momentary value directions.

There was a wealthy american who felt that he felt taxation is a bother, he renounced his citizenship by become ambassador at large, in USA, residing in Florida, for a south american country.

that does not mean you cant take it back, again. All you have to do is to go to the embassy of america in the country you are residing and declare that you are no more a citizen. Its that easy.

James K. Tillery, 49, the former President of Willbros International, Inc., a unit of Willbros Group Inc., the Panama-based provider of oil and natural-gas services, based in Houston, Texas, was charged in an indictment today with a conspiracy to pay more than $6 million in bribes to foreign officials in exchange for contracts.

James K. Tillery was indicted along with Paul G. Novak, 41, a consultant to the company, on four counts: violation of the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, and with two counts of authorizing corrupt payments. The bribes were allegedly made to secure gas-pipeline construction and rehabilitation business from state-owned companies in Nigeria and Ecuador.

In May, the company agreed to pay a $22 million criminal penalty to settle related bribery charges. The bribes occurred between late 2003 and March 2005, according to the indictment.

Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission announcement:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2008
WWW.USDOJ.GOV

According to the indictment, Tillery was a WII employee and executive from the 1980s through January 2005. From 2002 until January 2005, Tillery served as executive vice president and, later, as president of WII. Novak was an employee of WII in the mid-1990s, according to theindictment, who later worked as an oil and gas consultant in
Nigeria, purporting to provide consulting services to companies in that field.

The indictment alleges that from late 2003 through March 2005, Tillery, Novak, a Nigerian national working with Novak as a “consultant” to Willbros, Nigeria-based employees of a major German engineering and construction company, and other WII employees conspired to make millions of dollars in corrupt payments to assist in obtaining and retaining a major gas pipeline engineering, procurement and construction project known as the Eastern Gas Gathering System (EGGS). Willbros and its German consortium partner offered to perform the work related to the EGGS project for approximately $387 million. In exchange for being awarded the EGGS project, theindictment alleges that Tillery, Novak, and others corruptly paid, promised to pay and authorized payments to officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state-owned oil company in Nigeria; the Nigerian National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), NNPC’s subsidiary that manages NNPC’s investments in its joint ventures; a senior official in the executive branch of the Nigerian federal government; officials of a Nigerian political party; and officials of the company that operated the EGGS joint venture. Theindictment alleges that most of the bribe payments were laundered through Novak and his Nigerian consulting company partner.

The indictment also alleges that Tillery, Novak, and other WII employees based in South America agreed to make approximately $300,000 in corrupt payments to officials of state-owned PetroEcuador and its subsidiary, PetroComercial, to assist in obtaining a project that involved the rehabilitation of approximately 16 kilometers of a gas pipeline running from Santo Domingo to El Beaterio, Ecuador. PetroComercial was WII’s client on the $3 million project.

If convicted of all charges, Tillery and Novak each face sentences of up to 35 years in prison and fines of $250,000, or twice the pecuniary gain or loss from the offense, whichever is greater, for conspiring to violate the FCPA and for each violation of the FCPA; and $500,000 or twice the value of the funds involved in the ransfer,
whichever is greater, for the money laundering conspiracy.

Willbros, a publicly-traded company that provides construction, engineering and other services in the oil and gas industry, conducts international operations through WII. On May 14, 2008, Willbros and WII entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice and agreed to pay a $22 millioncriminal penalty in connection with corrupt payments to Nigerian and Ecuadorian government officials in violation of the FCPA. As part of the agreement, Willbros and WII agreed to cooperate, and have been cooperating, with the Department in its ongoing investigation.

The indictment was unsealed today after Novak was arrested upon his arrival into George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Novak returned to the United States from Constantia, South Africa, after his U.S. passport was revoked. Tillery remains at large.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Chief Hank Bond Walther and Trial Attorney Laura N. Perkins of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. It was previously handled by former Fraud Section Trial Attorney Thomas E. Stevens. The case is being investigated by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations. Additional assistance was provided by the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, the Fort Worth, Texas, Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

S@mi:

American Government should learn how to respect other countries