Clinton/Qualcomm/Carlyle/Tyson connections

http://www.calstate.edu/newsline/Archive/99-00/000418-SM.shtml

QUALCOMM made the $25 million commitment in conjunction with a "Digital Opportunity" tour by President Bill Clinton. The tour highlighted private and public sector efforts to reduce the digital divide between those in the United States who can afford access to computer and internet technology and those who cannot. QUALCOMM chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Jacobs said "QUALCOMM's continuing commitment to education focuses on providing resources for the development and training of math teachers in San Diego, and strengthening the relationship among San Diego's universities, our local kindergarten through twelfth-grade system, and our larger community."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E5DE103EF933A15751C1A9679C8B63
Tyson Foods Indicted in Plan To Smuggle Illegal Workers


By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: December 20, 2001
Tyson Foods Inc., the nation's largest meat producer and processor, was indicted yesterday with six employees on charges that it conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to work in its processing plants.
The 36-count indictment, which was unsealed at Federal District Court in Chattanooga, Tenn., accuses Tyson of arranging to transport illegal immigrants across the border and of helping them to get counterfeit work papers for jobs at more than a dozen Tyson poultry plants.
The government said it was the largest case brought against a major American company involving the smuggling of immigrants.
The indictment said that six Tyson employees, including two executives, participated in the actions and that the company engaged in the practices to cut costs, meet production goals and to maximize profits. The company could face sanctions and large fines if found guilty; the workers could face prison terms.
Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., disputed the government accusations that a corporate conspiracy took place. In a statement, Tyson said the government case involved a handful of managers who had been operating outside of company policy and that the six employees charged had been dismissed or placed on administrative leave.
The indictment, however, charges that Tyson had a corporate culture that condoned such behavior.
The indictment could result in sharp changes for food processors who have come to rely heavily on immigrant labor. ''This is bound to send a chill through the industry,'' said John Lawrence, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University and an authority on the meat industry. ''The question is, How involved are some of these companies in the recruiting?''
The indictment comes just months after Tyson, which has its roots in the poultry business, acquired I.B.P., the nation's largest beef processor, in a deal that created a $20 billion company that dominates the meat counter at supermarkets and is a leading supplier to fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King.
Tyson is on probation after pleading guilty in 1997 to making illegal gifts to Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary. The government said that if Tyson was found guilty of conspiring to recruit illegal aliens, it could face more sanctions in the Espy case.
Barry Levine, a lawyer for Tyson, said yesterday that it would demonstrate in court that executives in Springdale had no knowledge of the recruiting of illegal immigrants.
''No one in the corporate offices knew of this,'' Mr. Levine said in a telephone interview.
The government said that a 30-month investigation, led by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, found that about 15 Tyson plants in 9 states were involved in a conspiracy from about 1994 to 2001.
Along with the company, the government charged two Tyson executives, Robert Hash, a vice president in Springdale, Ark., and Gerald Lankford, a human resources manager, with defrauding the government by conspiring to recruit Mexican and Central American immigrants along the United States border with Mexico and by helping them obtain illegal documents like fraudulent Social Security cards.
Mr. Hash and Mr. Lankford, who supervised Tyson poultry plants, including one in Shelbyville, Tenn., where the investigation was centered, were unavailable for comment yesterday. Tyson said both had been placed on administrative leave, pending a decision.
The indictment said that, to meet production and profit goals, Tyson officials would contact local smugglers near its plants to get more workers.
The recruiters would contact with smugglers in Mexico, who would round up people willing to work for Tyson, the indictment said. Tyson officials would then arrange to meet the workers along the border, the government said, and transport them to meat processing plants.
The government said that Amador Anchondo-Rascon, a Mexican resident and United States citizen who once worked in the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, was a recruiter and smuggler of illegal workers and that he arranged transportation and trafficked in illegal documents. Mr. Anchondo-Rascon, who the government said referred to himself as the ''Jefe de Jefes,'' or the boss of the bosses, was a primary contact for Tyson officials seeking new workers, the authorities said. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case but the government did not say why.
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Tyson Says Top Bosses Didn't Know
Claim Made As Firm And Execs Are Tried On Smuggling Charges

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Smuggling conspiracy defendants Robert Hash (left), Keith Snyder (center), both Tyson executives on administrative leave, and Gerald Lankford, a former human relations manager. (AP / CBS)

(AP) Prosecutors played secret tapes Thursday of a man described as a manager at Tyson Foods arranging for the delivery of hundreds of illegal immigrants from an undercover agent posing as a smuggler.

"Hell, I put over 700 people to work," said the man on the tape, whom prosecutors identified as plant manager Robert Sanford. "I'm going to need to replace 300 or 400 people - maybe 500. I'm going to need a lot."

Tyson and three officials are charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work on the production lines of the company. Tyson, the country's largest meat processor, supplies about one-quarter of the nation's chickens.

Border Patrol Agent Benito Maldonado testified Thursday that he handed over eight illegal immigrants to Sanford, manager of the company's Monroe, N.C., plant, in January 1998. Court records have identified Sanford as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.

Tyson lawyers said in Wednesday's opening statements that any hiring of illegal immigrants was done by a few plant managers and was not known to executives at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark.

"No one in senior management knew," attorney Tom Green said. "No member of senior management ever violated immigration laws or encouraged" anyone else to.

Tyson spokesman Gary Michelson said Thursday the tapes "involve former Tyson employees who violated company hiring policies and were subsequently terminated."

Prosecutors say the conspiracy began in 1994 after Tyson plant managers had trouble hiring cheap legal help for its poultry plants. Company officials then turned to a pipeline of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, Assistant U.S. Attorney John MacCoon alleged.

Maldonado, known to Tyson as Benjamin, described picking up eight illegal immigrants at a warehouse near where they sneaked into the country in Del Rio, Texas.

Maldonado testified Wednesday that Tyson plants solicited and accepted 26 deliveries of illegal immigrant workers during an undercover investigation started in 1997.

He said a total of 136 illegal immigrants were taken to Tyson plants in six states. Another 18 illegals were intercepted before reaching Cumming, Ga.

Tyson attorneys said they turned down a government demand for $100 million to have the charges dismissed. They also have accused the government of using undercover agents to entrap employees.

A December 2001 indictment accuses Tyson and three company officials of taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. If found guilty, Tyson could face millions in fines and the loss of government contracts.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20081110-0622-earns-tysonfoods.html

Tyson profit rises to $48 million in Q4





ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:22 a.m. November 10, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, said Monday that higher sales drove fiscal fourth-quarter profit to $48 million from $32 million a year ago.
The Springdale, Ark.-based company earned 13 cents per share, compared with 9 cents per share a year earlier. Its sales rose to $7.20 billion from $6.66 billion.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected, on average, a profit of 18 cents per share on revenue of $6.98 billion.
Tyson had gains in its beef and pork units but continued to struggle with its poultry and prepared food businesses.
The company said grain costs that climbed $230 million in the quarter accounted for a loss of $91 million in its chicken unit.
Tyson Foods President and Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Bond said the company's diversified interests have helped it through a difficult fiscal year.
“Producing the three major proteins has proven to be a strategic advantage,” Bond said. “The strong performance by our beef and pork segments supported the chicken segment as it struggled throughout the year due to low prices and high input costs.”
Bond said Tyson is still facing a number of headwinds, including the credit crunch, which he said is crimping overseas sales.
For the fiscal year, Tyson earned $86 million, or 24 cents per share, compared to $268 million, or 75 cents per share, a year ago. Sales rose to $26.86 billion from $25.73 billion.
Tyson has made overseas acquisitions in the past fiscal year to continue its strategy of expanding internationally.
“We acquired three poultry operations in Brazil, entered into majority ownership joint ventures in India and China and are awaiting government approval of our third joint venture in China,” Bond said.
Also, the company broke ground on a facility in Geismar, La., to convert low-grade inedible fats and greases into fuel for transportation. The enterprise is in a 50-50 joint venture with Tulsa, Okla.-based Syntroleum Corp.
Tyson's chicken unit lost $118 million in the fiscal year. Beef had a profit of $159 million in the quarter and $106 million in the year, while the pork unit made $75 million in the quarter and $145 million in the year. Prepared foods lost $5 million in the quarter and made $63 million in the year.


http://911review.org/Alex/INSA_Iraq-Qualcomm_Contract.html
A growing Republican scandal at INSA and Qualcomm.
Qualcomm was founded by the billionnaire McCaw family
(truculent Wendy McCaw, a newspaper publisher in Santa
Barbara, flared up in the press recently after she
fired a dozen reporters for not bending news stories
as she demanded, inspiring the banned and fired & the
community at large to backlash against the shrew, who

remains untamed), specifically a member of the

National Security Council ... kicked out by John F.
Kennedy. The family, which got into broadcasting early
rock and roll, gave us the Top 40 music format; tou

have the McCaws to thank for that ... and for Qualcomm
...

- AC


"Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand
who had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White

Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq...."

1/11/2006

Conrad Burns INSA Lotta Trouble?
by Matt Singer @ 12:18 pm.


I�m still hearing rumors that there is more interest
in this story and also that the way it�s been broken
so far is a bit confusing, so here�s the whole

INSA/U.S.-Asia Network story as far as I�ve been able
to pull together the disparate threads.

Several weeks ago, a man named George Bailey wrote a
letter to the editor that appeared in several Montana

newspapers defending the character of Conrad Burns and
dismissing critics of Conrad.


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The letters received a quick response in the form of a

second letter to the editor from Jim Farrell,
executive director of the Montana Democratic Party.
Farrell�s letter pointed out that Bailey was not a
distinterested party or merely even an old friend of
Conrad Burns, but someone with a clear financial
conflict of interest when it comes to vouching for
Burns� character.

Specifically, George Bailey is the executive director

of the Inland Northwest Space Alliance (INSA), a
Missoula-based 501c3 (charitable or educational
non-profit) that has received over $5 million in
federal earmarked appropriations, all lined up by
Conrad Burns� office. INSA employs former Burns chief
of staff Leo Giacometto as one of its lobbyists
(another INSA lobbyist, one of Giacometto�s partners,
Robert Arensberg, figures in to this story later).
Giacometto became briefly famous in Montana for his

role in allegedly seeking to cover-up the drunk
driving accident in which Martz�s chief policy advisor
killed the majority leader of the Montana House, but
he has a long history and is well-known as one of the
shadier players in Montana politics.

The relationship doesn�t end there. INSA employs a
number of people with close connections to both Conrad
Burns and U.S. Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), including

former staff and spouses of current staff. All told,
INSA staff have donated roughly $15,000 of their
salaries into Burns� campaign coffers. In other words,
Burns lines up federal money, which pays the salaries
of staff, who donate to Burns.

But the connections don�t end here. While looking
further into connections between Conrad Burns and
George Bailey, I came across the U.S.-Asia Network

(the organization�s website has been removed from the
internets since I first wrote about this
organization). The Network�s board consists of three
people: George Bailey, Leo Giacometto (who also serves
as CEO of the Network), and Robert Arensberg
(Giacometto�s lobbying partner, he also serves as
President and COO of the Network). Conrad Burns serves
as the Honorary Chairman, along with three Korean
politicians.


I have no clear paper trail on where the Network�s
finances come from, but at several of its events,
featured speakers came from Qualcomm and Samsung. Do a
google search for �Qualcomm Samsung Conrad Burns� and

the first result is a Mother Jones report on �How a
top Pentagon official and a host of influential
Republicans almost made sure that one American company
gained a key stake in Iraq�s lucrative wireless

market.�

One of those �influential Republicans� is none other
than Montana�s junior senator. The American company is
none other than Qualcomm:

�The battle for Iraq is not over oil,� said one
Defense Department official involved in
communications. �It�s over bandwidth.� And no one was
fighting harder for a piece of the spectrum than the

consortium led by American cellular giant Qualcomm
with such business partners as Lucent Technologies and
Samsung of South Korea. They wanted to follow U.S.
troops into Iraq with Qualcomm�s patented cellular
technology, called CDMA, a system no nation in the
Middle East had yet been willing to adopt.
[�]


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Senator Conrad Burns felt the sting of Qualcomm�s
defeat in October. As chairman of the Communications
subcommittee, the Montana Republican had strong ties
to the company: Qualcomm was Burns� 12th-largest
campaign donor, and one of the company�s founders,
Klein Gilhousen, had recently given $5 million to
Montana State University. Gilhousen also sits on the
board of the Burns Telecom Center, an academic
research program, of which the senator is chairman.
During a trip to Iraq in October, Burns spoke with
officials one-on-one about the process that had denied
the Qualcomm consortium a license. �I think the
bidding was open, transparent, and fair,� he said upon
his return on October 14. That same day, however, one
of his chief aides began working behind the scenes to
plan a new way to get Qualcomm into Iraq, a plan
described in the aide�s internal emails, which were
obtained by Mother Jones. �As you know, Senator Burns
is taking flak for defending the CPA on Iraqi
telecommunications contracts which ignore CDMA,� wrote
Burns aide Myron Nordquist to one of the Pentagon�s
chief networking officials. �The Senator remains
determined to support CDMA.�

And Burns had a powerful motivation. The stakes for
Qualcomm, and by extension Burns, were far larger than
just the Iraqi market of 25 million people. For nearly
a decade, Qualcomm had been engaged in an
international battle with the non-American companies
pushing GSM, a rival technology that had been
developed in Europe and now controlled 72 percent of
the world market. A CDMA beachhead in Iraq would set
the stage for an expansion throughout the region, with
Lucent and Samsung well positioned to prosper as
leading makers of the CDMA switches and phones. As
Nordquist explained to the Pentagon last fall, Iraq
could provide a �communications link between Turkey
and the Gulf.�

Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand who
had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White
Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq.

[�]

Senator Burns, wrote Shaw, was �strongly supportive�
of the plan. So was the South Korean government, which
sang its praises in a letter to CPA chief L. Paul
Bremer, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice,
and Senator Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska
Republican who was responsible for the provision
exempting Alaska Native American corporations from the
contracting rules requiring competitive bidding. �I
would like to ask for your support,� wrote Daeje Chin,
the South Korean minister of information and
communication, noting that he hoped the emergency
system would be converted by this summer to a
�commercial service.�

[�]

Around that same time Shaw also pressed the case for
the Qualcomm consortium when Daniel Sudnick, the
senior American adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of
Communications, visited Washington, D.C. Shaw invited
him to dinner at the exclusive Metropolitan Club,
located across the street from the White House, took
him to meet Senator Burns, and then hosted a meeting
at his office on January 12 with representatives of
Nana Pacific and the Qualcomm consortium.

For all the work Qualcomm�s supporters did to arrange
for its entry into Iraq, the final authority over
Iraq�s telecom future still rested with the American
advisers, like Sudnick, working in Saddam�s former
palace in Baghdad. Although Sudnick met with Shaw and
Senator Burns, he told colleagues that he remained
determined to not effectively award a new cellular
phone license for Iraq under the cover of a network
for the nation�s police and fire officials.

The Mother Jones piece ends by noting that the
fighting over technology resulted in delays in
instituting a first-responder communications system.
As a result, Iraqis died.

But it doesn�t quite end there. After this story
started to get unraveled (with nothing more than
Google, mind you), the U.S. Asia Network website
disappeared (although I have numerous screenshots and
Google cache should work for a while, the Wayback
machine is an option after that). Meanwhile, the INSA
staff page has been scrubbed to remove references to
some staff with Rehberg and Burns connections.

The final story looks a little like this: a shadowy
network of organizations, possibly financed with
taxpayer money, looking to advance the interests of
major campaign donors, lining the pockets of key
political advisors, and providing money in-turn to
Burns� re-election efforts.

If this isn�t a scandal, I don�t know what is.
Conrad�s folks seem to think it�s a scandal, too.
Otherwise, I doubt they�d be covering their tracks
right now.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080918-1031-tysonfoods-brazil.html
Tyson announces expansion in Brazil


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080918-1031-tysonfoods-brazil.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:31 a.m. September 18, 2008
SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc. says it's bought two poultry companies and has acquired majority ownership in a third in southern Brazil, home to many major producers of corn and soybeans.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Advertisement The Springdale, Ark.-based meat producer announced Thursday its agreements with the companies. Tyson says it will buy Macedo Agroindustrial and Avicola Itaiopolis, both in the state of Santa Catarina. Tyson says it has acquired a 70 percent ownership of Frangobras, located in the state of Parana.
Tyson's international president, Rick Greubel, says the company is expanding into Brazil because the country is the world's leading chicken exporter and third largest chicken producer behind the United States and China.
Tyson, the world's largest meat company, had sales of $26.9 billion in fiscal 2007. The company says chicken sales represented 31 percent of total sales.
“With the economic stability and a growing middle class, the per capita consumption of chicken will continue to increase in Brazil,” Greubel said. “In addition, our Brazilian operations will give us greater access to markets that are currently buying little to no poultry from the U.S.”
Tyson said current Macedo president, Joster Macedo, will head all of Tyson's Brazilian operations.
“The current management teams as well as other jobs at all three companies are expected to remain in place as we move forward with expansion plans,” said Greubel. “The transition to expanded production will be gradual with our focus on the long-term success of these operations.”


http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/food-industry-food-mfg-animal-slaughtering/7089532-1.html

Tyson Foods signs contract with QUALCOMM; world's largest poultry producer buys OmniTRACS.
Publication: Business Wire
Date: Thursday, January 5 1995

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1995--QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) Thursday announced the signing of a contract with industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. for 100 OmniTRACS two-way communication terminals from QUALCOMM.

Current plans include the immediate installation of 750 units.


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Arkansas-based Tyson is the world's largest producer of poultry, processing more than 30 million chickens each week. "We looked at all the options, both cellular and satellite, and evaluated several," said Bill Lovette, vice president of distribution for Tyson.

"The OmniTRACS system was by far the leader, providing superior technology, proven stability and a total software solution. We expect the system to not only improve communications and customer service, but provide critical decision support information for long and short-term planning."

In addition to producing poultry, Tyson Foods is also one of the nation's largest producers of pork and pork products as well as tortillas for the food service industry. The company also operates a 34-vessel fishing fleet in the north pacific.

"We are excited to enter this partnership with Tyson," stated Rich Sulpizio, president


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The Carlyle Group and QUALCOMM Close Venture Capital Investment in China.
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