While writing the previous post about an Amnesty International report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I tried to link to the site of John T. Richardson’s Association for the Legal Defense Fund of Charles G. Taylor. The domain name, however, expired on June 26, 2008. The site now has a link to…wait for it…Ann Taylor, the clothing company. Check it out for yourself here.
So what does this mean? Can the Defense Fund no longer afford to keep its domain name? (I doubt this, as Richardson seems to be doing just fine financially, despite his spot on the UN travel ban list.) Does it no longer want to? If the latter is true, why not?
The Defense Fund, which was established in June 2006 by Richardson (Taylor’s former Defense Minister and the mastermind behind Operation Octopus), used to have a sophisticated website that allowed you to make donations for Taylor’s defense, as he claimed to be unable to afford his own lawyer. Taylor in fact controls tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in assets throughout the world. The homepage of the website showed–in two or three second intervals–photos of Taylor with various world leaders.
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