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	Alleged extortion in Haiti by Nastassia Tamari
	Posted: 02.07.2010 at 9:36 PM save send print

Nastassia Tamari

Nastassia joined the news team in January of 2009. A native of California, she says she is loving the Lone Star state.

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As, the cleanup and aid go on in Haiti, there are new developments this weekend in the case of Jim Allen of Amarillo and the nine other U.S. missionaries who are charged with child kidnapping in that country.

The haitian lawyer who represented that group has been fired. Attorney Edwin Coq allegedly tried to bribe the missionaries' way out of jail.

Coq denied the allegations, and said the $60,000 he requested from the American's families was his fee.

However, the man who fired him said Coq was orchestrating some kind of extortion with government officials.

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