YOUNG SAYS NO KICKBACKS TO AG'S UNDER PNM

Opposition MP and former Prime Minister Stuart Young later responded to statements about legal fees made by Legal Affairs Minister Saddam Hosein.

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00:00The Russian MP and former Prime Minister Stuart Young later responded to statements about legal

00:04fees made by Legal Affairs Minister Saddam Hussein. If there's any corruption with respect to any of

00:14those figures called Soviet, let the chips fall where they may. One thing, one thing I stand here

00:26careful, one thing I stand here cognizant of and fearlessly can say out of the PNM Attorney

00:38Generals over that period of time between 2015 and 2025, there will be absolutely no kickback

00:49of legal fees from any attorney to any PNM Attorney General.

00:56The opposition MP then made reference to the former People's Partnership Administration.

01:03But we subsequently found out that in the period of 2010 to 2015, over $1 billion in a five-year

01:10period was expended on legal fees. And a great amount of that was on a few attorneys. So to help

01:20my friends, very quickly there began to be a following of the money behind this handful of

01:28attorneys. The next thing we knew is there were criminal charges laid.