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Wait a minute mr. Farrell.

> After a few days out of town I returned home to find Farrell’s case as a
>topic in the Meteorite Central pages.
>To the members of this forum my apologies to use this forum to reply to the
>press release issued by mr. Farrell which,  by kindness of mr. Pitt, was
>brought to our attention in this same forum. This is a place to meteorite
>matters and I hate to see it used for others objectives. However because
mr.
>Farrell chooses to bring back a matter that shocked the meteorite community
>giving his side of the story, slandering the Brazilian authorities, I as a
>Brazilian and somenone who unfortunately was called by the Federal Police
to
>explain the meeting I had with him in Rio de Janeiro the day before he was
>arrested, I am forced to say: Wait a minute mr. Farrell.
> First of all, as mr. Pitt says, his own address was undully used on the
>press release writing by mr Farrell himself which was vetted by his lawyer.
>This would be sufficient to know the style and pratices of mr. Farrell. But
>there is more about the press release which by its contents and for what
was
>not mentioned,  becomes a highly incriminatory piece about mr. Farrell
>actions.
> First of all I can´t deny the terrible situation of our penitenciary
>system. All over Brazil thousands of Brazilians are  incarcerated in
>precints jails since the presidiuns are over loaded. But as mr. Farrell
>says, in his cell there were not only foreigners but Brazilians too. So no
>special treatment to foreigners. When he says "as well innocent men" he
>forgot  that every man is innocent until he receives a final sentence by a
>court. Here as in the United States those accused of a crime, depending of
>the charges, have to wait in jail for their trial. This was the case of mr.
>Farrell who was accused of a serious federal offense and was an innocent
man
>until the time he was convicted. I would like to add that in the Federal
>Police  facilities there are no condenned prisioners but only those waiting
>for trial.
>  As a matter of the fact it was a surprise to us how fast his case come to
>trial and, it has to be said, the sentence he received was considered a
joke
>since he received a fine and he was suppose to do some community work.
Funny
>that, despite the light sentence,  as his press release states, "they  are
>now fugitives." Why, should we ask, they became fugitives? Also the same
>press release states that the full ordeal was not reported in the US which
>is not true. We all here in the meteorite list know that some newspaper in
>the eastcoast (New Haven) noticied the affair. Reuters also had the news on
>the wires.
>By the other hand little space was given for his “ordeal” on the Brazilian
>press after his arrest. To say that mrs. Zucolloto manipulated Rio’s media
>and there was “an international plot that  was hatched before we arrived in
>Rio” is a half true. Mrs. Zucolloto did not manipulated the press because
>only one or two newspaper opened  space to the facts even when they became
>convicted. By the other hand maybe it was not a plot but his previous
>records on the international meteorite community that was hatched when he
>arrived in Rio...
> Mr. Farrel also mentioned the injustices he sufferd from US consulate
>staffers and that US Senators from Arizona, Ohio and Connecticut were
>unhelpful.
>Very strange when we know how American authorities are always concerned
>about the security of their citizens abroad. However in the case of mr.
>Farrell and he did not mentioned this in his press release, he has a
>previous record of unethical hanky-panky with Egyptians meteorite
authorites
>concerning some samples he took out of that country possing as a Yale
>professor. Mr. Daniel Kagan in an email here published on 02-13- states
very
>well how Farrell, at that time, got way with the help of officials of the
US
>State Dept. The Brazilian press also noticed his records and his ventures
on
>Egypt. So, no wonder the American Senators and US officils were unhelpful.
>Mr Farrell also mentioned that two Brazilian attorneys suggested that they
>lie and he and his accomplish “refused to confess a crime they did not
>commit and relied on an abundance of fact (sic), evidence, witnesses and
>testimony to prove their innocence.” In fact what they told the court was
>not the true as untruthful were the evidences to prove their inocence. That
>is why they were found guilty.
>We can see that he is not a first timer and as Farrell himself put in his
>press release “private multinational legal efforts “liberated” the men...”
>Who are these multinational mr. Farrell? As he mentioned “liberated”
>(beteween quotation marks) it seems that he too manage to get advantage of
>the “ the bribery, extortion, conspiracy and self dealing” he has
>mentioned... to get away with such light sentence which allowed him to
leave
>the country as a fugitive.
>When he says that “the “purioined” meteorites which neither Americans saw
or
>handled...” he did not explain how come the specimen were found inside of
>his shoes packed in their suitcase, when they were arrested in the airport
>waiting for a flight back to US. As the museum curator, mrs Zucolotto, told
>me by a email, mr. Farrel told the Federal Police that I had put the
samples
>on his shoes after our meeting in the hotel. But as I related on my home
>page and told the Federal Police, I got to Rio de Janeiro the day after the
>meteorites had disappeared from the Museum...  Also I mentioned how our
>meeting set to Saturday was antecipated to Friday due  a request of Farrell
’
>s wife sent by email to me saying that her husband had urgency to leave Rio
>de Janeiro...sooner than he expected.!!!!
> As far the value of the gems which mr. Farrell says is a fraction of what
>it cost the businessmen during their inquisition he should be reminded that
>here as in the US no matter if someone steals  something worth ten dollars
>or a thousand, the crimes are the same: theft. The difference is that some
>have more than 42 thousand dollars to spend to get away or to get
> “liberated”...
> Finally about  the funny and untrue press release of mr. Farrell he says
>that “this affair could have severe consequences for the precious stones
>business, which is a much larger part of the Brazilian economy”. Come on
mr.
>Farrell: even as as joke you don’t know what you are talking about. Could
>“larger part” be considered if it does not comes close to 5% of our export
>business?
>I have two suggestion to mr. Farrell: the first one is to take his tragic
>story to Hollywood. Who knows a producer could make a movie with the
>following title: Farrell against the Nations of the 3rd. World. The second
>suggestion:  he should take his case to the United Nations  Human Rights
>Commission and mention too the name of the foreign businessman  he says  is
>languishing in a cell for eight years and the name of a noted nuclear
>physicist suffering illegal imprisionment. But here is a question: why mr.
>Farrell did not mentioned their names? Maybe he forgot to hide their names
>inside of his shoes when he left the prison....:-)
> Too bad the Internet meteorite community which have people like Stroik,
>Baalk and some others real experts, honest profissionals and scientist
>giving a very special and valuable service to all of us, still have “some
>wolves under sheap skin” as I have mentioned in my home “A path finder to
>mar an Internet meteorite conspiracy” at
>http://www.nornet.com.br/joel/meteorites
>Thanking all of you for the time and space to restore the true about
Farrell's visit to Brazil and at same time feeling sorry
>for my poor english, I remain cordially yours, JOEL CONRADO
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