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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -
Anna Nicole Smith may have been only a "B list celebrity," but it hit the Bahamas as a hurricane, spreading scandals that toppled a number of officials and endangered the whole government, just as U.S. cable filter . UU. diplomatic.
The government fell two months after the last cable was written.
"Since the category 4 Hurricane Betsy made landfall in 1965 a woman has done so much damage in Nassau," says a color document in November 2006, apparently written by the Deputy Chief of Mission D. Brent Hardt. It was released by WikiLeaks and published by the British newspaper The Guardian Tuesday
afternoon.
"Lying in the chaos in its wake are Doctor's Hospital, Court of Investigation, the Immigration Department, Callenders local lawyers mega-and Co., a former popular minister of Immigration Shane Gibson, and possibly Prime Minister Christie's, the government PLP ", added the diplomat.
Cables, classified as confidential, describes how fast the success of Smith in obtaining permanent residence led to the expulsion of Gibson, while the alleged mishandling of the child's treatment and death interrupted the careers of several officers lower, while the activation of opposition politicians and the press.
The last cable dated March 2007, two months before the Progressive Labor Party lost an election despite a strong local economy. He noted that the opposition Free National Movement "has used these scandals to take the offensive in the run up to elections."
The heiress, former Playboy model and reality TV star filed legal residency in the Bahamas on August 11, 2006, as the cables, and was granted a month later, although the process sometimes takes years and his ownership of a house - the basis for its implementation - was the subject of controversy.
The cables in mind that Gibson, who approved the application, was hit by allegations he had received a check for $ 10.000 and $ 25.000 watch Smith, who also allegedly hired his father to work on his yacht and his mother care for their children.
Officials denied the allegations, the diplomat wrote, saying that "with ease that the Ministry of migration can not be criticized for" greater efficiency in government that deserves praise. "
Gibson finally resigned in February 2007 after a local newspaper published photographs of Gibson Smith hugging in bed.
The diplomat said that before Smith arrived, Gibson was known for harsh anti-immigrant policies.
"The scandal of Anna Nicole Gibson has been recast as a puppet of the privileged place of an ombudsman of The Bahamas."
Gibson did not respond to a request for comment.
Several local hospitals and officials of the coroner's office were also removed following allegations of inefficiency or abetting in the death of her son Daniel.
Smith died in February 2007 at a hotel in Florida and is buried in the Bahamas with her son, 20 years old.
In October 2010, a boyfriend and two doctors accused of allowing the use of prescription drugs Smith was acquitted more drugs. However, Howard K. Stern, Smith's boyfriend, lawyer, and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist, were convicted of conspiring to obtain painkillers and sedatives.
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