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Swaso Says Hon Finnegan Bad-Mouthed Him
posted (December 28, 2012)
Last week we told you all about Goldbourne "Easy Glen" Adolphus and his alleged partner in crime James Swazo. Now we stress "alleged" because Easy Glen hasn't been charged for anything - but Housing Minister Michael Finnegan says that Swazo and Adolphus teamed up to hustle business-owners using his honourable name.

Easy Glen has already declared his innocence - and he has plausible deniability; after all, he hasn't been charged. But James Swazo was charged with two counts of obtaining property by deception from two businesspersons in the amount of $1,500.00.

So what's his defence? Well in court he pleaded not guilty but today when we met him on the streets, he said it was politics:..

James Swazo
"They are trying to abstract us big time. They caught us in Orange Walk, brought us to Belize City, took us to Belmopan and held us there for two days and a night and then they brought us back to Belize City and tell us that they have a charge for us. They held us for 94 hours and then they charge us."

Jules Vasquez
"You think that he was fighting against you; that Mr. Finnegan started up this thing against Easy Glen and yourself because of this whole confusion over who is supporting Faber and who is supporting Gapi?"

James Swazo
"I say that's right because my boss is supporting Gapi and he is supporting Patrick Faber, so this thing is like a conflict - he can't get to my boss, so he will try to get to us."

Jules Vasquez
"Dealing with the specifics of the complaints them; Mr. Griffith says that you went there to pick up $2,000 in Mr. Finnegan's name. Any such thing happen?"

James Swazo
"I will leave that to the judge at the court."

Jules Vasquez
"Moving forward, have you had any discussions with Mr. Finnegan or so? How is that going from here?"

James Swazo
"I haven't seen Mr. Finnegan. If I do see him and the little mistake happen then I will apologize. All of us are UDP alike. The past is the past, all of us are UDP - we are soldiers for the party. See how they are dealing with us like we are real criminal - they want us to go to jail for the Christmas and the New years, come on, all of us are UDP."

Jules Vasquez
"You don't look like you are on something with thousands of dollars...."

James Swazo
"Nothing is going on with us Jules. The party is not dealing with us the right way."

Swazo is out on bail and returns to court on February 25, 2013.

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