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One thing that was brought up in a Gleaner column over the weekend (see: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...us/focus3.html ) is the odd situation of whereby Solicitor-General reportedly "made it clear that the government of Jamaica saw no need at that stage to engage their [Manatt's] services" (Samuda's own words) in December 2009, yet Manatt made out a contract with Brady in October 2009 describing him as a consultant to the GOJ and acting with the authorization of the GOJ and filed documents with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in November 2009 under the FARA Act claiming to be acting on behalf of the GOJ through Brady and then long after that December meeting they filed another document with the DOJ in March 2010 notifying the DOJ of their termination of the contract and still claiming it was with the GOJ.
So how come if the Solicitor-General reportedly "made it clear that the GOJ saw no need at that stage" in December 2009 to engage the services of Manatt, we still have Manatt officials up to mid-April claiming the contract was with the GOJ and the apparent error wasn't corrected or at least investigated by Manatt and the GOJ in December? Why was there no confusion between the Solicitor-General and the Manatt representative that accompanied him to the December meeting? (which AmLawDaily says was Susan Schmidt according its sources - presumably the same Susan Schmidt who seems to have filled out most of the Manatt documents sent to the DOJ under the FARA Act; see: http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawd...ca-manatt.html )
So how come if the Solicitor-General reportedly "made it clear that the GOJ saw no need at that stage" in December 2009 to engage the services of Manatt, we still have Manatt officials up to mid-April claiming the contract was with the GOJ and the apparent error wasn't corrected or at least investigated by Manatt and the GOJ in December? Why was there no confusion between the Solicitor-General and the Manatt representative that accompanied him to the December meeting? (which AmLawDaily says was Susan Schmidt according its sources - presumably the same Susan Schmidt who seems to have filled out most of the Manatt documents sent to the DOJ under the FARA Act; see: http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawd...ca-manatt.html )
and now Samuda basically saying we must look to the JLP.
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