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Edit to add date missing to header, per texasmom.  MB

Edit to add date gone missing in header

Would a mod please add the date to the Subject Header 9/24/09?

TIA   ::MonkeyCool::



Done.  MB

It is Hugo

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Google translation:

Clothing with blood to Forensic Institute

September 29, 2009, 14:53 (GMT -04:00)

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Vice Consul James Hogan.

PHILIPSBURG - The jeans that Baya Beach Friday afternoon was found in which blood is contained Sunday, along with other samples from the site, to the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) in Rijswijk sent.

The clothing is possible the missing since Thursday U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan (49), but the NFI is inconclusive. That said prosecutor Ludmilla Vicento yesterday during a press conference.
The authorities are so far out of one of the missing man, but with all scenarios of a crime as kidnapping for an attack, are also taken into account. From the Netherlands, a team from the NFI Sunday arrived with four dogs body. The area around Baya Beach on the peninsula of the Caracas Bay remains off until further notice. Family, colleagues and neighbors have been heard but it has yielded nothing.

Hogan left his home Thursday in Toni Kunchi for a walk but did not return. His wife did Friday morning reporting the disappearance.

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From left to right: Inspector Eldemar Sambo, spokesman Reginald Huggins and Ludmilla Vicento officer during the press conference.

That Friday morning the police started the search with a search using the route that Hogan was wont to walk. Area of Toni Kunchi is combed. Starting Friday the prosecution and the police with a Large-scale Research Team (TGO) consisting of three p.m. to eight p.m. people. Later the police will send an official message from missing. This tips are received which are being verified. That afternoon is also clothing found in the peninsula. The search moves to this area. Members of the coastguard, the Navy and the U.S. Navy and comb the area from the Dutch navy diving on these sites. From the air helicopters. The study area is roofed with a tent.

Also yesterday was confirmation that there are members of the FBI on the island to investigate the disappearance of Hogan. The official investigation is in the hands of the Antillean authorities, so let Vicento know. From government sources have close contact with the American consulate and embassy. The U.S. media have already reported the disappearance but have not yet settled on Curaçao. The police is now at least prepared, said spokesman Reginald Huggins.

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Search for vice-consul continues unabated

28 Sep, 2009, 08:34 (GMT -04:00)

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Police checked everyone at the entrance of the Caracasbaai peninsula this morning. Today the search for the missing American vice-consul James Hogan continued.

WILLEMSTAD — The search for the American vice-consul James Hogan (49) continued unabated today. Hogan was last seen on Thursday evening.

The authorities are not revealing much. For example, from Antillean side there is still no official confirmation that five police officers of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are also involved with the large search since Saturday. Nor has it been confirmed whether the jeans found on Friday at the peninsula of the Caracas Bay belonged to Hogan. Furthermore, there is speculation on a puddle of blood found in the surrounding. The authorities are not revealing anything on this either.

According to a source, a crime is meanwhile being considered. The police, who are responsible for the search, have called a press conference this afternoon in which they hope to announce more details.

The VKC, coastguard, and rescue organization Citro were also deployed besides the police corps. Apart from the coastguard’s helicopter, a helicopter from the American navy vessel USS Carr, which is currently moored in the harbor, is also being used for the search. Citro stopped their search this morning. The police and coastguard continued their search in spite of the rain. Divers have also searched the Director Bay. For the time being, no assistance has been requested from the Dutch military with the search for Hogan.

The police announced that all possibilities are currently being investigated, including a crime, kidnapping, and a private matter. The American consulate on Curaçao had filed a missing person report on Friday of the man who had left home for a walk on Thursday evening.

The police circulated an official missing person report on Friday afternoon. Hogan is 1.84 meters long, has a sturdy figure, is fair-skinned, has straight red hair, blue-green eyes, and a round face. People disposing of information concerning Hogan and his disappearance, are requested to dial 911 or 108.

Local media report that Hogan had supposedly had an argument with his wife. The website iReport.com also announces the disappearance of the vice-consul. The iReport site is used to place articles that are not edited, or articles that contain information, which is not verified prior to posting such. Only those articles marked with ‘On CNN’ have been verified accurately.

One of the three reactions on the (non-verified) article, which was posted on the site last night, is supposedly from a daughter of Hogan. The writer states the following “There was no domestic dispute. My Dad and my mom have been married for 24 years and he has never once taken off after a fight. The lead the police have down there right now is that a woman who was fired from the office where my Dad Works, has criminal connections. Second of all, my mom hasnt heard ANYTHING about his clothes being found, or anything that might indicate anything positive. The local police insist she had something to do with his disappearance, and refuse to investigate the woman who was fired further. My family is going through enough without you printing bs stories!”


Continual contact
In a reaction on the disappearance, Premier Emily de Jongh-Elhage announced that she is very pleased with the cooperation between the institutes who are giving their all. “We immediately gave this disappearance priority.” There is continual contact between the Directorate Foreign Affairs and the American consulate, just as with the American embassy in the Netherlands.

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Search for vice-consul at peninsula Caracas Bay

26 Sep, 2009, 09:33 (GMT -04:00)

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James Hogan

WILLEMSTAD — His clothes were found on the peninsula of Caracas Bay, just opposite the location where the Hyatt is being built. One-hundred and fifty police officers, coastguard, and Citro have been searching for the missing American vice-consul James Hogan since this morning.

According to reports, the 49-year old Hogan had left his home Thursday afternoon after an argument with his wife, and never returned since then. Jeans and shoes, most likely those of the missing person, were found yesterday. Even though it has not been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that it concerns Hogan’s clothes, the peninsula was searched for further clues this morning.

The police and the Criminal Investigation Cooperation Team (RST) are occupied with the case. The coastguard searched the sea with a super rhib and a helicopter. Rescue organization Citro searched for the missing person or traces of him along the coast.

The search was expanded during the course of the day. The assistance of the navy and American military of the FOL-basis was called in. A diving team would search underwater.
 
At the request of his wife, the police circulated a missing person report in the afternoon. Hogan is 1.84 meters long, has a sturdy figure, straight red hair, blue-green eyes, and a round face. He was wearing jeans and a dark blue polo shirt.

People disposing of information concerning Hogan and his disappearance, are requested to dial 911 or 108.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Hogan family.

I've got a feeling there's more to this than has been reported.

I hope his wife has proper representation (other than locally), my gut says she didn't have anything to do with this. 

I pray that a proper investigation is done by the FBI into anything and everything that could have happened here, and that ultimately he is returned to his family safe and sound.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-335061

US vice CONSUL missing Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

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    candiceSp007 // 2 hours ago   
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I also live on the island in fact i live about 7 min from where Mr. Hogan disappeared. What curacao needs to do or needed to do , is put pictures up of Mr. Hogan. i don't know if they did i haven't noticed any around. and i am also surprised there are no American news correspondents down on the island...
    vanderbiezen // Sep 28, 2009   
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The search has stopped for tonight and will resume full force tomorrow morning. They have found what they believe personal belongings of Mr. Hogan (DNA will officially determine if the belongings are his). Will keep you posted for more information.


I'm wondering where the American media is too!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8168:american-vice-consul-still-missing-on-curacao&catid=31:general&Itemid=76

American Vice Consul still missing on Curacao      

Written by Staff Reporter      
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:27
www.sxmislandtime.com

WILLEMSTAD - The authorities on Curacao have issued a statement on the disappearance of the American Vice Consul James Hogan, who went missing over the weekend.

Although there has been an intensive search for the American Diplomat, he has still not been found. Below is the full report issued by the police on Monday.

* On Friday morning, at 09.00 a.m., Mrs. Hogan reported that her husband was missing.
* The evening before he left his home and never returned. He left his home to go for a walk.
* Friday morning the detective department of he police of Curacao starts with the search
* The following morning the Counsel for the Prosecution together with the police decided to form a Large Scale Investigation Team (abbreviated T.G.O). The T.G.O. falls under the supervision of a special task force comprised/formed for this investigation. T.G.O. initiated an investigation at approximately 3.00 p.m.–4.00 p.m. T.G.O. took over the investigation started by the investigation team between 09.00 a.m. – 15/16.00 p.m.
* T.G.O. consists of approximately 15 to 20 agents.
* Priority is to find mr. James Hogan
* At home information was given as to where he takes his daily walk. The entire route in question was searched. The area is known as “Toni Kunchi”.
* An investigation was conducted in that area. Family members, and colleagues were also heard.
* The Police emits on Friday a press release with information on the disappearance
* Incoming information and tips were investigated and verified.
* A passerby found clothes in the vicinity of Baya Beach and informed the police.
* The search party focuses on that particular area. For this reason an investigation was also initiated at sea. The Royal Dutch Navy, the US Navy plus the helicopter pertaining thereto, all these instances form a part of the search and investigation team. The Royal Dutch Navy is also conducting dive expeditions to this end.
* Clothes were found. There were also traces of blood on the clothes and right next to where the clothes were found.
* There is a possibility that the clothes which were found belong to the missing person in question. A description and the brand of the clothes he was wearing when he left home to go for a walk was given.
* On Sunday said clothes and traces of blood were sent to the NFI (Dutch Forensic Institute). We are being assisted by the Dutch Forensic Investigation Team from the Forensic Institute of The Netherlands since last Sunday.
* We also have since Sunday at our disposal four dogs trained especially in the realm of finding missing persons which were provided by said Dutch Forensic Institute of The Netherlands.
* The investigation site was covered with a tent because of rain showers.
* The Antillean authorities are working together with The Netherlands, and the United States in connection with the search operation.
* This is a broad spectrum investigation.

So concludes the report given by the police on Monday. Hogan 49, is said to have had some troubles with his wife and as such, she is a person of interest for the investigation.

However their daughter have dismissed those claims stating that everything at home was good.


Comments:


GoldenGoose     |2009-09-29 06:10:08
Oh boy...more bad international press for the islands....
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*******     |2009-09-29 07:05:32
The kids are usually the last to know what really goes on behind closed
doors,all areas should be investigated...
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prayers     |2009-09-29 08:49:09
Strength to the family. My prayers are with you.

No trace of missing US consul James Hogan
Published on29 September 2009 - 12:57pm


   
The search for US vice consul James Hogan, who disappeared on the island of Curaçao on Thursday, continues unabated.

Local authorities on the Antilles are getting support from US agencies, but they deny FBI involvement in the search. A number of traces have been found, including a pair of jeans and traces of blood, but research in the Forensic Institute of the Netherlands will have to establish whether these were Mr Hogan's.

Spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office, Ludmila Vicento, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide about progress so far:

"Mr Hogan's wife reported her husband missing on Friday morning. We're not excluding any scenarios. The clothes found match the description given by Mrs Hogan. The area where Mr Hogan used to take walks has been combed, as well as the area where the traces were found. We are being helped by the US Navy, which happened to have a ship with a helicopter in the vicinity of Curaçao. No FBI agents are involved in the investigation at this point, but US agencies may become active here if we invite them. The Netherlands has sent a couple of specialist detectives with search dogs."

Earlier disappearances are still fresh in the memory of the Netherlands Antillean people. Dutch trainee nurse Marlies van der Kouwe was killed on Bonaire, while on Aruba US teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared without trace.

Interview: René Roodheuvel

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/no-trace-missing-us-consul-james-hogan

http://news.laprensacur.com/

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but is as bill with all posibilidat: police is consider affair hogan till now one affair of disappearance

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tuesday, 29 september 2009 23:33

willemstad - despite of all konhetura, despite of all rumor and despite of all spekulashon, police is consider the affair of james eduard hogan as one affair of disappearance. “pero we is as bill with all possibility,” so much inspector of police sambo as fiskal mr. ludmila vicento owing to suprayá yesterday tardi during one enkuentro with prensa.

as la prensa owing to come is acquaint all the dianan here, the affair is kedando one enigma absolute.

already have komentarionan finish with god let the affair not become one affair wing natalee hollaway at aruba, because this can okashoná enough damage at imagination of korsou.

james hogan reportadamente owing to bandoná his home thursday night with purpose of go djòg in area of caracasbaai.

the not owing to come back and his spouse owing to acquaint police of this in kurso of friday morning.

the is one fellow of postura high (1 metre 84) and have 49 year of age. hour past owing to leave home, the had one trouser jeans blue dress with one suèter blue dark.

according inspector sambo, police at once owing to monta one búskeda big for find know more of the person with owing to disparsé.

police till still is leave for of sharp of view with is deal here of one affair of disappearance. but police is as bill with all possibility. is p’esei self according past owing to tell owing to arise one tim particular of investigation

fiskal mr. vicento owing to confirm with for ministerio public also is deal till with now of one affair of disappearance, but waystreet is as bill with all opshon.

“e unique thing with is assure is, with the fellow james hogan is pèrdí,” the fiskal owing to enfatisá.

one quantity big of instansia is yudando in the búskeda, as navy regal, wardakosta and us navy.

police owing to averiguá all the tepnan with owing to enter of komunidat on the affair here. one dje tepnan with owing to resultá important was of the person with owing to find the pañanan at caracasbaai.

according vicento, owing to base of information of family is suspect with can is pañanan with hogan had dress ayá with his disappearance.

together with the cloths they owing to find mancha of blood, much partially on the pañanan self as at the sitio waystreet owing to find the pañanan.

sunday last, owing to send the pañanan for investigation ulanda, for her institute nederlands forensisch instituut (nfi) for more investigation.

the same institute here, nfi entretantu owing to send 4 for 5 eksperto with owing to arrive we island for give one hand in the búskeda.

besides the institute owing to send also some kachó of train for smell cadaver.

yesterday was one day of enough áwaseru.

outoridatnan owing to as bill with this and owing to open tèntnan at the sitio with is searching intensivamente for avoid with áwaseru is lastra eventual pruebanan go with him.

sierto part of the area of caracasbaai entretantu is será for public for not difikultá the investigation.

bosero polisial reginald huggins owing to elogiá the comparison with police owing to find till with now of komunidat, but owing to tell at once with the is follow count on the comparison here.

“manera voice all know, komunidat is wes’i back in the work with police is make. p’esei self we want make one appeal on everybody for give the information with they have, for little with the can is at we kuerpo. komunidat ever owing to let we at street. all yudansa is bonbiní,” according huggins.

can give any information at the cord known with is work 24 hour for day or also can give information at the cord anonymous 108. posiblemente is come one cord more nearby in the dianan future. come across

Thanks Buckeye!   ::MonkeyCool::

 ::MonkeyNoNo::  Anybody else feel like, here we go again?

They need to INVITE the FBI in NOW!   ::MonkeyMad::

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Bet search for additional equipment James Hogan

By PRESS RELEASE II

Posted: Oct 30, 2009 02:19 UTC

PHILIPSBURG - In connection with the disappearance of Mr James Hogan, vice consul of the United States, gives the Public Prosecutor (OM) the following statement.

At this time, the OM confirm that the Attorney-General of the Netherlands Antilles to the Consul-General of the United States a request is made for two researchers. Following the request of the FBI Monday 1 officer and 1 officer of the State Department added to the research team.

The prosecutor stressed that until now still based on a loss. It all scenarios into account, also with a crime.

Meanwhile, the investigation. Through formal channels is a request to the Netherlands for technical assistance. This request has now been approved. Through the Ministry of Defense called defense funds will arrive in Curaçao in the form of divers, specialists and equipment. Wednesday arrives in Curaçao for a robot to investigate the seabed. Tuesday afternoon already Curaçao 4 technicians who operate the robot arrived.

What has been announced that the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) the research team provides assistance regarding laboratory. Since Sunday there are some members of the "National Forensic Investigation Team" arrived in Curacao, consisting of 2 dog companions, four specialist dogs to detect and 4 seem forensic specialists, who will assist in gathering evidence. The Consul-General of the United States today by the Attorney-General of the Netherlands Antilles a request for assistance in the form of divers and equipment that can be used in the search.

The equipment by the Ministry of Defense made available to divers and frog men at a depth of 15-30 m can dive, go Boston Whalers and a REMUS team. This team consists of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and four staff of the Diving and Remove Group of the Royal Navy that the underwater robot from a deployment platform. This Remus takes the form of a mini-torpedo and a side scan sonar on board which the soil and the water column above it can be quickly identified.

Interesting what is said to Dutch journalists vs. others.

I can't find any mention in State Dept. briefing.

Maybe the family should notify Greta. ::MonkeyNoNo::

I agree!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Texasmom...thank you for the information on James Hogan. 

Are you able to determine which publications seem the most reliable at this point?  I am very surprised that we do not see FOX or CNN.  Actually it seems that as an American Embassy Vice-Counsul, there would be FBI looking for him.....lots of FBI.

Going back to re-read some of the above.

Thanks....

Hi Mere!  You're welcome.  I'm just taking it all with a grain of salt right now.  I've brought most of what I can find here so that hopefully there will be bits and pieces of the facts found among them all.  There are so many similarities in what I'm reading to the early days of Natalee's disappearance, most specifically the question of ACTUAL FBI involvement in the investigation; and the concern for the "image" of the island...which we both know hints at their main concern...TOURISM.  This statement was very telling to me too:


 ::MonkeyNoNo::
 

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Extra help for search Hogan

30-09-2009 12:08 | NEWS | Tessa Jansen

CURACAO - The search for James Edward Hogan is getting more material added. Today there is a robot from the Netherlands that will examine the seabed. Tuesday there are already four technicians arrived on Curaçao that the robot can operate.

The research and the quest for the American vice-consul are still working. There are also two American researchers added to the team. Monday was an FBI agent and an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Curaçao.

Team

The Country Team from the Netherlands Forensic Investigation Team has also sent aid. Four dogs with special occasions supervisors are flown to search for the 49-year-old vice-consul. The research team also comprises the police Curacao (KPC), Coast Guard, Dutch Navy and U.S. Navy. The whole search is led by the KPC. The police are still out of loss, but does not exclude other scenarios such as abduction or attack.

Hogan

The American vice-consul Edward James Hogan disappeared Thursday evening, after his wife was reporting Friday of loss. Meanwhile there clothing found near Caracas Bay. Then blood is found, what DNA testing is sent to the Netherlands.

http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-diplomat-missing-in-curacao.html


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009


US Diplomat Missing in Curacao



Netherlands Antilles newspapers are reporting the disappearance of an American diplomat assigned to the U.S. Consulate General Curacao. The diplomat identified as James Hogan, 49, reportedly disappeared on Thursday evening, (September 24) after he attended a reception at the American Consulate.


Police statement reported on September 29 says that “On Friday morning, at 09.00 a.m., Mrs. Hogan reported that her husband was missing. The evening before he left his home and never returned. He left his home to go for a walk.” It is reported here that local authorities are assisted by the” Dutch Forensic Investigation Team from the Forensic Institute of The Netherlands since last Sunday.” And that they also have at their disposal “four dogs trained especially in the realm of finding missing persons which were provided by said Dutch Forensic Institute of The Netherlands.”


St. Maarten Island News reported the search for James Hogan on September 28. The following day it published information released by the local police. Yesterday, it reported that the FBI and the State Department have joined the search for the missing diplomat.


The State Department says that “Vice Consul James Hogan left his residence last Thursday and has not been heard from since, and we continue to work this with Curaçaoan authorities.”


According to State Department info the Consulate General Curaçao represents U.S. interests to three governmental authorities: the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the autonomous Netherlands Antilles, and the quasi-independent country of Aruba. The consular district includes six islands and spreads over a distance of 500 miles. It is the destination of millions of American tourists each year, the home of about 6,000 U.S.-citizen residents, and the location of over $1 billion of American investments. There are important – and sometimes urgent – consular and representational demands on the post for all the islands, including the farthest and smallest.


The OIG report from 2008 indicates that Curaçao is a 15 percent cost of living post and a three-year, two rest and recuperation, assignment. Entry-level officers (ELOs) get a two-year tour with one rest and recuperation break. It is considered a medium threat for crime post. And that this usually manifests particularly towards tourists in Curaçao.


Curaçao, an “independent mission” within the Western Hemisphere Bureau has 27 direct-hire and eligible family member personnel and 13 LE staff personnel. Of the 27 direct hire employees, 23 are employees from different agencies. Mr. Hogan is listed as the consulate’s political/economic/consular officer. He is one of the four State Department direct-hire employees at the US Consulate General in Curacao.



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FBI and State Department officially joins search for James Hogan
29 September 2009 20:39

American Vice Consul still missing on Curacao
Includes full report issued by the police on Monday, September 28
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:27
Huge man hunt for American Vice Consul Hogan launched on Curacao
28 September 2009 01:40
Report No. ISP-I-08-16, Limited-Scope Inspection of Consulate General Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles - March 2008 | PDF

http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8182:fbi-and-state-department-officially-joins-search-for-james-hogan&catid=41:frontpage

FBI and State Department officially joins search for James Hogan      

Written by Staff Reporter      

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:39

www.sxmislandtime.com

WILLEMSTAD - In connection with the disappearance of Mr James Hogan, vice consul of the United States, the Attorney General (OM) Dick Piar has confirmed that the Consul-General of the United States has made a request that two persons join the search.

Following the request of the FBI on Monday, 1 officer and 1 officer of the State Department have been added to the search team.

The prosecutor stressed that until now James Hogan has not been found and that all scenarios are being taken into account, as well as the possibility that a crime was committed.

The (OM) also stated that through formal channels, a request was made to the Netherlands for technical assistance to aid with the investigation into the disappearance of Hogan. He stated that this request has now been approved.

Through the Ministry of Defense the assistance will arrive in Curaçao in the form of divers, specialists and equipment. Wednesday a robot is scheduled to arrive on Curacao to investigate the seabed. On Tuesday afternoon 4 technicians who operate the robot arrived on the Island.

The Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) research team, will provide assistance regarding laboratory needs. Since Sunday some members of the "National Forensic Investigation Team" arrived in Curacao, consisting of 2 dog companions, four specialist dogs trained to detect and 4 seem forensic specialists, who will assist in gathering of evidence.

On Tuesday the Attorney-General of the Netherlands Antilles visited the Consul-General of the United States and made a request for assistance in the form of divers and equipment that can be used in the search.

The equipment by the Ministry of Defense that have been made available are divers and frog men that will search at a depth of 15-30 m, Boston Whalers and a REMUS team.

This team consists of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and four staff of the Diving and Remove Group of the Royal Navy that will assist the underwater robot from a deployment platform.

This Remus takes the form of a mini-torpedo with a side scan sonar on board which can scan the soil and the water. The American Vice Consul of the Consulate General in Curacao, 49 year old James Hogan, disappeared last Thursday evening after he attended a reception at the American Consul.

Sept 29....

QUESTION: You have anything on your Embassy employee in Curaçao who went missing last week? Any update on him?

MR. CROWLEY: No. Basically, Vice Consul James Hogan left his residence last Thursday and has not been heard from since, and we continue to work this with Curaçaoan authorities.

QUESTION: And is it still being treated as a missing persons case or has it been elevated?

MR. CROWLEY: I think it’s still being treated as a missing persons case?

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/sept/129970.htm

Daily Press Briefing
Sept. 30, 2009
Daily Press Briefing by Assistant Secretary Crowley.


No text, yet.  At 37.33 into video, Crowley is asked if there is anything new on Hogan.  He responds "nothing new".





http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=42840358001

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/347/story/1093620.html


POSTED: Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009

Rescuers comb Curacao for missing US diplomat


The Associated Press
   

WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO Rescuers searching for a U.S. diplomat led sniffer dogs over beaches Wednesday as technicians prepared to comb the sea floor with a robotic device for traces of a vice consul who vanished on this Dutch Caribbean island last week.

Curacao prosecutors said James Hogan, 49, was reported missing Friday morning by his wife. He apparently left his home to go for a walk the night before.

On Wednesday, searchers scoured coastal areas for Hogan after passers-by found blood-spattered clothes on Baya Beach. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, Ludmila Vicento, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that the clothes match descriptions given by his wife.

In an e-mail sent Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said it is working closely with Curacao authorities in an effort to locate Hogan, who arrived in the southern Caribbean island in August 2008 for a two-year assignment.

The Curacao prosecutor's office said the Royal Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy were assisting with the search. Four sniffer dogs were provided by the Dutch Forensic Institute. The sonar-equipped robotic device was expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon.

Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government, lies about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off Venezuela's coast.

http://www.24ora.an/content/blogcategory/1/5/

Papiamentu translation:

buskeda of vise konsul american james hogan

wednesday, 30 september 2009 - 10:49

we can owing to kompronde with ministerio of defence dutch will send various equipment sofestika for juda in the buskeda of the vise konsul american, sr. james hogan. as we can owing to kompronde sr. hogan owing to disparse for of week happen. after of buskeda intensivo in aria of caracasbaai still not know nothing of the paradero of sr. hogan. is sospecha with s. james hogan do not at life more. but not can konfirma that.

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9/29/09

ministerio public is as bill with all possibility in affair of vise-kònsel american james hogan with is pèrdí foi thursday 24 sept 2009. so fiskal ludmilla vicento owing to give of know during one konferensha of prensa band with police today tardi. the fiskal owing to confirm with owing to find cloths and also something paresido at blood with can is of hogan in area of caracasbaai. owing to send this institute forénsiko dutch for determiná one want another. all the time, police is ask komunidat for follow help with information.

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Papiamentu translation:

for odd cu can is desaparicion of vice consul mericano, do not important for medionan mericano

thing cu owing to wing very atencion ultimo day, t’e desaparicion of the vice consul mericano, staciona at corsow. is deal here of james hogan, for cual have very much speculacion. contrario at desaparicion of the student mericano, natalee holloway some year happen, where aruba owing to stay invadi for several medio of comunicación mericano, all the canalnan of television mericano, permiti for name of aruba wordo bad propaga, at corsow, seems cu they not have interest p’e desaparicion of the vice consul mericano here. at aruba, is surgi the question, pakico not have interest?

or the medionan of prensa mericano not know still? siendo cu departamento of estado is at height, for cual even autoridadnan hudicial of antiyas, is hayando asistencia of fbi, dea y also for of the netherlands, owing to send asistencia for busca the mericano here, that as menciona owing to desaparace in form misterioso. as menciona, have very speculacion y although till now here, autoridadnan is mantene the hipotesis of desaparicion, not have to exclui of one acto criminal. cometi for kende(nan)? esey also have to wordo investiga.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-336257

REMUS Team will assist in search for disappeared U.S. Vice Consul James Edward Hogan

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Willemstad, Curacao, October 1 , 2009.

Thursday Oct. 1 will mark the 7th day that United States Vice Consul James Edward Hogan has disappeared in a Dutch Caribbean island after having been reported missing a week earlier on Sept.25th. Since that day search parties have found clothing on a peninsula between Santa Barbara Beach and Caracas Bay that matches the description of what Hogan was wearing the last time he was seen. Blood was found on the clothing and in an area nearby. Both clothing and blood samples have been sent to the Forensic Institute of the Netherlands (NFI) which will have to establish whether these were James Hogan's.
 
 
The areas where the blood and clothing were found have been covered by tents to prevent further loss of DNA material and other potential clues. The whole peninsula and the surrounding sea has been blocked so that only the investigation team members have access. For six days the area has been combed by the Curacao Police Department, the Dutch Coastguard, a US Navy Helicopter, a dive team, a canine cadaver team, a FBI officer, an officer of the US State Department. Now a REMUS team has been added to assist the investigation on Thursday Oct. 1..
 
 
REMUS is the acronym for Remote Environmental Monitoring Units.  The REMUS is a robotic ‘torpedo’ that navigates by itself without a human crew onboard and without cables connecting it to a ship or other seagoing vessel. The REMUS is a search instrument known as autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
 
A REMUS vehicle can dive to 100 meters deep and is capable of conducting an 80 km survey at a speed of 3 to 5 knots (1 knot = 1.145 mph). It was designed by Ocean Systems Laboratory and Woodshole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, USA and built by Hydroid Inc, in Massachusetts. In the past REMUS vehicles have been used to locate and recover mines, lost torpedoes and other search and recover activities.
 
The REMUS is about 160cm long, 19cm diameter and weighs 37kg and has a speed  of 3-5 knots (electrical battery powered); can run for 80km (about 10 hours) and can search through soil and water with a high frequency side scan sonar. It is controlled with a lap top computer and pre-programmed before its dive. It navigates with acoustic transponders that are located by GPS. On Tuesday afternoon four technicians who will operate the robot arrived on Curacao by plane. Furthermore a team of the Diving and Remove Group of the Navy will assist the REMUS team from a deployment platform.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63232.php

Google translation:

CURAÇAO

Hogan search results even without

October 1, 2009, 15:02 (GMT -04:00)

PHILIPSBURG - The massive search continued today near the peninsula of the Caracas Bay to the missing American vice consul James Hogan, at noon had yielded nothing concrete. In the search will include using sophisticated equipment such as a robot that scans the bottom.

Large-scale Research Team has now also started to distribute posters with pictures and description of Hogan, who was last seen on Thursday. This happens in the neighborhood Toni Kunchi, where the vice consul and his family lives, and surroundings. Also there are posters stuck. There are already hints in and which are also verified, but police spokesman Reggie Huggins was at the conclusion of the paper say nothing about results. But he calls the people to any information about Hogan pass.

Toni Kunchi of the neighborhood association has received a request from the authorities to work with an extensive research area. This confirms director Peter Fontilus. Last week, even though family, friends, acquaintances and neighbors interviewed. Fontilus not know Hogan. The vice consul lives a few blocks away and his house, like any family diplomats, private security. The neighborhood association is particularly engaged with the security of the area and especially at night. A few years ago there were many break-ins instead. The social control is not great in the district, said Fontilus that Hogan has never seen walking nearby. The vice consul said Thursday evening to his wife that he was walking. Board Fontilus find it annoying that the name of Toni Kunchi now in a negative light should say, because it is unsafe the neighborhood. But he still finds it annoying for the Hogan family that now uncertain about the father. Also Fontilus find the missing but a strange thing. "You hear many things, even contradictory." But these rumors to the board no opinion.


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Additional manpower and material for search

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WILLEMSTAD — Additional manpower and material have been deployed in the search for the missing American vice-consul James Hogan.

So-called ‘defense means’ such as divers, specialists, and material will be provided for Curaçao through the Dutch Ministry of Defense. A robot, which is used to search the sea bottom, has arrived on the island today. The four technicians, who will operate the robot, had already arrived on the island yesterday. The Public Prosecutor announced that a request was made to the consul-general of the United States today for assistance in the form of divers and material that could be used with the search.

The material, which is being made available by the Ministry of Defense, consists of divers and frogmen who are capable of diving to a depth of 15 to 30 meters, Boston Whalers, and a Remus-team. This team consists of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and four staff members of the Diving and Deactivation group of the Royal Navy, which operate the underwater robot from a platform. This Remus has the form a mini-torpedo and is equipped with a side scan sonar on board to chart the sea bottom and the water column above.

Monday afternoon, a FBI-official and an official of the State Department were added to the Team Large-Scale Search (TGO), which was deployed by the Public Prosecutor on Friday afternoon. The Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) has a research team that offers assistance with laboratory research. A number of members from the ‘National Team Forensic Tracing’ had arrived on Curaçao last Sunday. That team consists of two dog trainers, four specialized dogs for tracing corpses, and four forensic-specialists, who will assist with the gathering of evidence. The Public Prosecutor emphasizes that they are still considering this a missing person case. All scenarios, including a crime, are being taken into account.

The vice-consul is being missed since Thursday evening. He left his home in Toni Kunchi for a walk and never returned. His wife filed an official missing person report on Friday morning. The police immediately launched a search. That afternoon, the TGO of twenty people was deployed (which number has meanwhile been increased). The police circulated an official missing person report. Bloodstained clothes and blood in the surrounding were found on the peninsula of the Caracas Bay that day. The clothes and samples of the site were forwarded to NFI. The clothes could belong to Hogan.

In the meantime, wild stories are circulating in the media on Hogan’s disappearance, which for that matter, are not being confirmed by an official source. Hogan had supposedly had relations with Columbian women, a recent argument at the Amigo Terrace on the Sta. Rosaweg, and had even left a letter with the clothes with the request not to search his residence. Even though the disappearance has been announced in the American media, massive presence of news media on the island has remained forthcoming. Hogan’s family is avoiding contact and the American consulate is refusing to comment. Only Hogan’s teenage daughter posted a reaction on I Report last Sunday evening in which she denies that her parents had had an argument that Thursday evening.

 

http://www.vermist.nl/

Google translation:

Dutch seek U.S. Vice Consul in Curacao

Members of the Dutch National Forensic Investigation Team (LTFO) assist in the investigation into the disappearance of the American Vice Consul in Curacao.

The 49-year-old James Hogan lives in Curacao and is missing since Thursday night local time.

Since Sunday, three forensic identification specialists, two dog handlers and four dogs in Curaçao, reports the National Police (KLPD) Tuesday.

At the request of the police on the island they run along with the investigation into the disappearance and see if there is need for additional specialist from the Netherlands. At the request of the forensic specialist has been clothing to the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) sent for trace evidence.

LTFO It is a team of expertise in forensic investigation in the Netherlands combined.

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Snapshot from the video:

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Thank you for the updates and information texasmom.  When you first posted the articles about Mr. Hogan being missing, I started searching for news articles in the U.S. and there was one.  And then another.  Not much at all  ::MonkeyNoNo:: 

You're welcome MuffyBee!

I haven't found much at all in the U. S. news either.  I think the same article has been picked up by several different news sources and that's about it. 

I wish we knew more!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/search-vice-consul-hogan-stepped

Search for Vice Consul Hogan stepped up

Published on30 September 2009 - 3:16pm

Filed under: Curaçao James Hogan missing persons missing US vice consul Natalee Holloway Netherlands Antilles


The search for the missing US vice-consul James Hogan in Curacao has been stepped up. Two experts, one of them an FBI official, have been sent from the United States to join the investigation team on the Dutch Antilles island.

The Netherlands has supplied scuba divers and diving equipment for an underwater search in cooperation with the US navy. The Netherlands Forensic Institute is investigating traces of blood found on clothing that might have belonged to Mr Hogen. The clothing was found near Baya Beach.

The 49-year-old vice consul went missing on 24 September. His wife alerted the police on Friday morning after he failed to return from a walk the previous evening.

The police are keeping all options open. The case has been given top priority. The authorities are keen to solve the case after mistakes were made in the Natalee Holloway case. The US teenager went missing in 2005 on Aruba, another Dutch Antilles island. This case has never been solved in spite of an alleged confession caught on film.

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http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/mystery-deepens-over-us-vice-consul%E2%80%99s-disappearance

Mystery deepens over US vice consul’s disappearance

Published on : 29 September 2009 - 8:13pm | By Paddy Maguire

Filed under: Curaçao Dutch Antilles James Hogan Natalee Holloway US Vice Consul

The disappearance last Thursday of the US vice consul to Curacao in the Dutch Antilles has prompted a huge search on the island and the waters surrounding it. Local authorities on the island, which lies 40 kilometres off Venezuela’s coast, are being assisted by both the Dutch Royal Navy and the US Navy in a bid to find further clues as to 49 year old James Hogan’s disappearance.

Mr Hogan took his regular walk on Thursday evening and was reported missing by his wife on Friday morning after he failed to return home. A preliminary search by police found no trace of Mr Hogan

Over the weekend a passer-by found some abandoned clothes in the vicinity of Baya Beach area, some ten kilometres away from the Hogan’s family home. Traces of blood were found on the clothes and the area surrounding the place where they were found. The clothes matched a description given by Mr Hogan’s wife, according to Ludmilla Vicento, spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office.
 
DNA tests
The NFI [Dutch Forensic Institute] is now carrying out tests to see if the blood found on the clothes matches Mr Hogan’s DNA.
 
Mrs Vincento told Radio Netherlands:
 
"No FBI agents are involved at this stage but US agencies may become active here if we invite them. The Netherlands have sent a couple of specialist detectives with search dogs."

Radio Netherlands correspondent in the Dutch Antilles Rene Roodheuvel said that the search was widening by the day.

“The police are in constant contact with the consulate. There happened to be an American ship in the harbour which is helping with the investigations, providing men and helicopters for the search. The investigation itself is being handled locally by police and the district attorney.”

Missing person
So far it’s being treated as a missing persons case, says Mr Roodheuven, but with every day that passes, fears are growing for Mr Hogan’s safety.

Inevitably, comparisons have been drawn with other disappearances or deaths of foreign nationals in the Dutch Antilles. US teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared without a trace on the island of Aruba in 2005, prompting massive media coverage. In 2008 Dutch trainee nurse Marlies van der Kouwe was killed on the island of Bonaire.

Rene Roodheuvel says that police are trying to learn from mistakes that were made in previous missing persons cases.

“They are trying to be as transparent as possible. They learned from the Nathalie Holloway case…mistakes were made and they will try to prevent that from happening again.” 


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Those last two paragraphs sound good...I just hope they're TRUE.   ::MonkeyCool::
 

http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2375096.ece/Netherlands_Antilles_to_cease_to_exist_as_a_country

Netherlands Antilles to cease to exist as a country

Published: 1 October 2009 13:17 | Changed: 1 October 2009 15:43

By Radio Netherlands Worldwide

The Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on October 10, 2010.

In a meeting on Curaçao on Wednesday, the Dutch-Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba agreed to become Dutch municipalities.

On the same date, 10-10-10, Curaçao and the Dutch half of St Maarten will become independent countries within the Kingdom, on an equal footing with the Netherlands proper and with Aruba, which gained its "status aparte" in 1986.

The previous semi-independence arrangement between the Dutch central government and its former Caribbean colonies dated from 1954 and was due for renewal.

Dutch deputy home affairs minister Ank Bijleveld warned that a lot of work remains to be done following Wednesday's Curaçao agreement. The parliaments in The Hague and Willemstad (Curaçao) need to pass a number of laws, and administrative bodies for Curaçao and St Maarten need to be set up.

The Dutch government also wants assurances that rampant crime on Curaçao and St Maarten will be fought harder. Dutch police detectives will continue to be active in the kingdom's new countries.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-336257

Starting from the bottom of the page, I'd posted a couple of these with a news article a day or two ago...there are more now....a new one by "thinkagain13" who claims to be the oldest daughter of James Hogan
    

       Antillian // 17 hours ago   
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Because they gave this case so much attention,....and the should, people are really focusing on everything they hear about your father. Our only source is the press right now,...and I DO AGREE with you that here on the island they go around on gossip, but in most places it's like this. The news reports just don't add up, one does not go walking from Toni kunchi all the way up to caracasbaai, and whenever I go walking, I go in just simple shorts and a t-shirt which don't neccesarly are expensive at all. This is the way things go whenever you get such a case, people talking ,speculating ,and for the one standing at the other end it will be frustrating hearing these things and wanting the world to know their loved one was really not all the person they say he was. People will keep on talking dear, just try and not let things get to you, and really pray a lot for strenght and that they find your dad alive and well.I just hope, the police is not focusing on one part of the island only, when they should be broading up their search everywhere. Strenght to your family, and we hope they find him soon !!!
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      thinkagain13 // Oct 1, 2009   
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I am the last one to hate on anyone.  Antillian, you shouldn't let rumors and stupid interpretations get in the way.  The reason my dad wears jeans and polo shirts to go walking is because he often chooses to go without things he thinks are unnecessary to make sure that his wife and children have everything they want.  Why should it matter whether he chose to go walking in jeans and  polo shirt, or went walking in the latest, greatest, and most expensive work out gear!?!  My little sister in the only one of us girls who was here the day after ... she didn't go to school, she didn't leave the house ... she has spent her days taking care of my mom.  The first time she left the house was today when I took her to the grocery store after arriving here from the United States the night before.  I don't know why or if it's even true that the first place the cops searched were night clubs.  I would guess that in many missing person's cases many people often are found in such places.  But unless you knew my dad and knew the kind of loving father, doting husband, and devoted catholic he is, you really have no business gossiping or speculating about the very personal aspects of his life, or about his character!
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        Antillian // Sep 30, 2009   
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I hope they find Mr. James Hogan !
But a lot of questions people have....WHO goes walking in jeans and polo ?
thinkagain13,...where you or one of your sisters really in mambo or vicinity on friday after your dad was missing ?!
Why is it that the first places they searched where adult nightclubs ?
Remember,...these are the things we people hear outside and sit and wonder, because we want him found too. Dont hate on the people who live here. We do NOT want a Natalee Holloway case here in Curacao. We just want him found alive and well. Or at least some truth in the story.
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           iDarren // Sep 30, 2009   
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his clothing and shoes???
the clothing has been shipped to the Dutch forensic institute in the Netherlands to determine if they are Mr. Hogan's or if they have something to do with his disappearance. The local authorities haven't receive any results yet, so you can't just report that "his" clothing have been found.
    

      Kashira // Sep 28, 2009   
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This is what's so wrong with the media in this country!
I'm a family friend, and you have got the story all wrong. You can't just post the first piece of news you find just because you want to be the first to supposedly give the inside scoop!
You only make things worse by making assumptions and posting up bullshit.
the family is going through enough without having amateur uninformed writers making things worse.
pray for the family, or at least hope and wish that everything works out. that's what we're all doing.
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       ArmyNavygirl // Sep 28, 2009   
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WIparent,
  Did you NOT read the previous comment. His family is reading this. Your irresponsibility is appalling. I'm one of his friends. You don't even know him at all and I can tell you he would never do anything like that intentionally...go back to watching your soap operas.


    thinkagain13 // Sep 27, 2009   
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First of all, you need to get your story straight before you post it.  I am the oldest daughter of James Hogan.  There was no domestic dispute.  My Dad and my mom have been married for 24 years and he has never once taken off after a fight.  The lead the police have down there right now is that a woman who was fired from the office where my Dad works has criminal connections.  Second of all, my mom hasn't heard ANYTHING about his clothes being found, or anything that might indicate anything positive.  The local police insist she had something to do with his disappearance, and refuse to investigate the woman who was fired further.  My family is going through enough without you printing bs stories!
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After a domestic dispute, sounds like he decided to disappear forever in the sea, to me. Left his clothes as a message he had done it.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/tsunami-wreaks-havoc-samoa

Audio clip from Radio Netherlands Worldwide and snapshots from the case so far.

DNA on bloodly clothes matches missing US diplomat
1 hr 23 mins ago
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – DNA on blood-spattered clothes found on a Curacao beach matches that of a U.S. diplomat who vanished on this Dutch Caribbean island last week, police and prosecutors say.

In a joint statement issued late Thursday, Curacao authorities said the Dutch Forensic Institute has confirmed that bloody clothes found along Baya Beach belonged to James Hogan, 49, who was reported missing by his wife on Sept. 25.

Police also reported they have found the missing U.S. vice consul's cell phone in the sea.

Authorities have been searching beaches with sniffer dogs and combing the sea floor with a sonar-equipped robotic device for traces of Hogan.

The Curacao prosecutor's office said the Royal Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy were assisting with the search.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department declined to comment Friday.

The U.S. State Department said earlier it was working closely with Curacao authorities to try to locate Hogan, who arrived in the southern Caribbean island in August 2008 for a two-year assignment.

Hogan was last seen when he left his home to go for a walk on Thursday night.

His responsibility includes consular duties for the Dutch island of Aruba, where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway vanished in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government, lies about 40 miles (65 kilometers) off Venezuela's coast.


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NUT's edit...finally got the link in!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_curacao_us_vice_consul_missing_2

Thanks 2NJ.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

I'm just now reading thru this thread.  Has it been addressed yet - did this person replace Jean Akers?

My God.

There is so much here that is just sickeningly familiar.  It's like a nightmare is replaying itself.  ::MonkeyShocked::

I wonder if the US authorities are really only there in a supervisory role, as they were in Aruba - while the local press was touting false involvement/help in the investigation.

That one article a mere 4 days ago sadly leads me to believe that is the case.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Has anyone found any info or place where someone could converse with Hogan's daughter that is posting?

Someone really out to at least share some lessons learned with her.............and encourage her to beg and plead with the US media to get involved, and get invovled NOW!

I cannot believe another Dutch island has made the same "mistake" as Aruba did with Natalee.  Why did it take them so damn long to search in earnest for this poor man?

Oct. 1

QUESTION: Can you talk about the U.S. diplomat that’s missing in Curacao?

MR. KELLY: Yeah. Vice Consul James Hogan left his residence late last Thursday, on Thursday night and, unfortunately, hasn’t been heard from since. And I believe his wife reported his disappearance on Friday. And since then, the Embassy and Diplomatic Security has been working closely with the authorities in Curacao to locate Mr. Hogan.

QUESTION: Do they think it’s something related to foul play or --

MR. KELLY: I --

QUESTION: -- have absolutely no leads, no idea?

MR. KELLY: No. Well, unfortunately not, not that I’m aware of. It’s a – of course, we’re extremely concerned, as is his family, that we have no --

QUESTION: Can you confirm the Dutch Royal Navy --

MR. KELLY: -- information.

QUESTION: -- and the U.S. Navy are assisting in the search?

MR. KELLY: No, I can’t. Yes, I can. (Laughter.) Yes, the Dutch Royal Navy is assisting in the search.

QUESTION: And the U.S. Navy, apparently?

MR. KELLY: Yes, and the U.S. Navy.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/oct/130169.htm

Oct 2

No text, yet.

1:20 into video, discusses clothes and cell phone found...close contact with Netherlands Forensics and Curacao police... Haven't listened to whole tape to see if topic is readdressed.

http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=36699559001

I can't register to post on ireport, where daughter is posting.  Can anyone post there...to have her contact media?? and maybe link to this thread...?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gH_Ebn3Z80d0mZh7qmEDDvZaCNIwD9B359IG0

DNA on bloodly clothes matches missing US diplomat
By DAVID McFADDEN (AP) – 1 hour ago

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The weeklong search for an American diplomat has taken a grim turn as investigators on the Dutch island of Curacao said DNA from bloody clothing strewn along a popular beach matched that of missing man.

Police and prosecutors in this palm-fringed corner of the Caribbean said forensic scientists have confirmed that blood-spattered clothes found on Baya Beach "definitely" belonged to James Hogan, a 49-year-old U.S. vice consul who vanished a week ago. Divers also found his cell phone in the sea.

On Friday, authorities used sniffer dogs to search rocky coastal areas and combed the Caribbean floor with a sonar-equipped robotic device for traces of Hogan. The Curacao prosecutor's office said the Royal Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy were assisting.

Investigators on the island of 137,000 inhabitants are still trying to trace where Hogan went after leaving his home to go for a walk on the night of Sept. 24.

He and his wife live in Toni Kunchi, a quiet district outside the capital, Willemstad, that is home to wealthy business owners and diplomats.

U.S. State Department records show that Hogan, who arrived in the southern Caribbean island in August 2008 for a two-year assignment, had a legal residence in Florida, but no city or town is listed.

He completed junior foreign service officer training in 2005 and spent two years as a consular officer in Gabarone, Botswana.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at a news briefing Friday in Washington that the agency is "very concerned about the welfare of Mr. Hogan."

"This is obviously upsetting news; it's not conclusive news. But we will continue to stay in close touch with the Netherlands forensic service and with the Curacao police," Kelly said.

Hogan's responsibility includes consular duties for the nearby Dutch island of Aruba, where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway vanished in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

Holloway was last seen leaving a bar in the Aruban capital. No trace of her has been found despite extensive searches involving Aruban soldiers, FBI agents and even Dutch F-16 jets with special equipment.

Some residents in Curacao, a tiny island where the U.S. keeps military planes and personnel, said they were concerned that Hogan's disappearance might put a dark cloud over its vital tourism industry.

"I don't know if it will have a huge impact, but this is definitely not a good thing, obviously," said Angela Vergouwen, a 23-year-old waitress and bartender at the Grand Cafe De Heeren. "Everyone is talking about it."

Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government, lies just 30 miles off the coast of Venezuela and it is sometimes used as a jumping-off point for drug traffickers.

It may not mean anything at all, but does anyone else find it interesting that he went missing on Aruba's election night?  Just as the winds of change were blowing in....

Jen, you have said what I've felt from the beginning.  I'd hoped I was wrong, but the signs were there from the getgo.  My first sick feeling in the pit of my stomach was the Mr. Sambo...and that was in one of the very first articles I read.  I know that is probably just coincidence but it didn't and still doesn't change the feeling.....

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.rnw.nl/node/29629#

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Is there some kind of law on this island (and Aruba)....that allows the Marines and the Navy
involvement in the search for the missing but the FBI is not allowed "unless we invite them".
What a slap in the face.

When a member of the American consulate is missing, you would think they would be thrilled
to "invite" any member with exceptional investigative experience.  Would they be embarrassed
if the FBI located Mr Hogan before they did?

It does bother me that the island is a dropping off point for drugs 30 miles from the Venezuelan coast.
Did he come across something?

It bothers me about the mention of all the crime on the island?  Did he meet with with any lowlife?

It bothers me that there is almost no mention of this disappearance by the U.S. media.

What doesn't bother me is to learn what really happened to Mr. Hogan - I think they call that a
transparent investigation.  Was it a kidnapping, a domestic dispute, an armed robbery......?

What I really could not stand would be not knowing 4 years from now.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63289.php

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DNA research confirms blood of James Hogan

October 2, 2009, 14:41 (GMT -04:00)

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PHILIPSBURG - The Spanish Water is being thoroughly scoured for clues in the disappearance of the American vice consul James Hogan. Today the Spanish Water parts were completed. Baya Beach was again accessible, but the path to the Quarantine Building a fence was still closed.

As of Wednesday morning there is research under water and place in the Spanish Water at the entrance of the Spanish Water to open sea. The search, which Antillean, Dutch and American military personnel to participate, are daily starting place and include in the boathouse of the rescue organization Citro Caracas Bay.

This morning everyone was around nine hours left. There are only two Americans who are about to take a kayak into the water to go to the area to trace.

Unfortunately they are not very talkative. One would just nod affirmatively that the team has experience in the search for missing persons around the world. But in the interest of the investigation they should not talk to the press.

Furthermore, the Spanish Water, near the creek in the Curaçao Yacht Club, are two small boats to see where men camouflagekleding water scour. But they are just too far from shore to call if they have found something important.

The Coast Guard asks users of the Spanish Water sailing instructions to follow when movements are restricted and some parts are temporarily closed. This research continues until further notice. It uses a type of underwater robot afspeurt soil.

Blood Tracks
Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) confirmed based on DNA analysis, that the blood found on the clothing, the clothing itself and the blood traces on the ground on the peninsula of Caracas Bay, the U.S. vice consul James Hogan lost his.

Hogan was on Thursday last week was last seen. It was evening at ten hours from his home to Toni Kunchi went for a walk. A day later, afternoon, his clothes and some items found. The Public Ministry also confirmed that last Wednesday in the search area in a sea of mobile phone is found that Hogan was. This is currently being investigated.

May lift
Research has shown that the first vice consul remained in the neighborhood and then, between eleven and twelve hours first Bapor Kibra should have and then Baya Beach. The police also calls witnesses Hogan might have given a lift, these places have seen him, whether in the company of others, especially by giving this to the police. "We still miss a lot of pieces of the puzzle," said spokesman Reginald Huggins. The Hogan family is as far as possible kept out of range. It is not known whether in the context of the research stuff from his house confiscated.

Every afternoon there will be a briefing location. Police spokesman Huggins probably expected this afternoon to release more information.

I know how you feel Mere!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

And I have many of the same questions you've stated above....

http://news.aol.com/article/missing-us-diplomat-james-hogans-dna/695059

Bloody Clothes Belonged to Missing Man

By DAVID McFADDEN, AP

posted: 1 HOUR 59 MINUTES AGO

comments: 16 filed under: NATIONAL NEWS, WORLD NEWS

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Oct. 2) - The weeklong search for an American diplomat has taken a grim turn as investigators on the Dutch island of Curacao said DNA from bloody clothing strewn along a popular beach matched that of missing man.

Police and prosecutors in this palm-fringed corner of the Caribbean said forensic scientists have confirmed that blood-spattered clothes found on Baya Beach "definitely" belonged to James Hogan, a 49-year-old U.S. vice consul who vanished a week ago.

Divers also found his cell phone in the sea.

On Friday, authorities used sniffer dogs to search rocky coastal areas and combed the Caribbean floor with a sonar-equipped robotic device for traces of Hogan. The Curacao prosecutor's office said the Royal Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy were assisting.

Investigators on the island of 137,000 inhabitants are still trying to trace where Hogan went after leaving his home to go for a walk on the night of Sept. 24.

He and his wife live in Toni Kunchi, a quiet district outside the capital, Willemstad, that is home to wealthy business owners and diplomats.

U.S. State Department records show that Hogan, who arrived in the southern Caribbean island in August 2008 for a two-year assignment, had a legal residence in Florida, but no city or town is listed.

He completed junior foreign service officer training in 2005 and spent two years as a consular officer in Gabarone, Botswana.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at a news briefing Friday in Washington that the agency is "very concerned about the welfare of Mr. Hogan."

"This is obviously upsetting news; it's not conclusive news. But we will continue to stay in close touch with the Netherlands forensic service and with the Curacao police," Kelly said.

Hogan's responsibility includes consular duties for the nearby Dutch island of Aruba, where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway vanished in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

Holloway was last seen leaving a bar in the Aruban capital. No trace of her has been found despite extensive searches involving Aruban soldiers, FBI agents and even Dutch F-16 jets with special equipment.

Some residents in Curacao, a tiny island where the U.S. keeps military planes and personnel, said they were concerned that Hogan's disappearance might put a dark cloud over its vital tourism industry.

"I don't know if it will have a huge impact, but this is definitely not a good thing, obviously," said Angela Vergouwen, a 23-year-old waitress and bartender at the Grand Cafe De Heeren. "Everyone is talking about it."

Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government, lies just 30 miles off the coast of Venezuela and it is sometimes used as a jumping-off point for drug traffickers.

Associated Press writer Matt Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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2009-10-02 15:52:46

Thanks Buckeye!

Here's today's text:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/oct/130208.htm

Ian Kelly
Department Spokesman
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
October 2, 2009

snip:

CURACAO
U.S. concerned about the welfare of US Diplomat Hogan; Netherlands forensic service has confirmed his DNA on blood traces on clothes found on beach

snip:

QUESTION: Just briefly, can you bring us – give us an update on the situation involving your missing vice consul in Curacao?

MR. KELLY: Yeah. I think we were all concerned to see the press release of the authorities there regarding the clothes and cell phone that were found belonging to Mr. Hogan. I think you probably saw the press release from the Netherlands forensic service which confirmed that the blood traces found on the clothes were a DNA match for our colleague, Mr. Hogan. These clothes were found on the beach.
And of course, we’re – as we always have been, we’re very concerned about the welfare of Mr. Hogan. This is obviously upsetting news. It’s not conclusive news. But we will continue to stay in close touch with the Netherlands forensic service and with the Curacao police.

I just noticed that the article I posted at the top of this page is the same one Klaas posted on the page before, sorry about that!

 :2doh: :oops:

http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/us-navy-joins-hogan-search-in-curacao.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009

US Navy Joins Hogan Search in Curacao

US diplomat James Hogan has been missing in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles since September 25. The State Department confirms that the Royal Dutch Navy and the US Navy are assisting in the search:

QUESTION: Can you talk about the U.S. diplomat that’s missing in Curacao?

MR. KELLY: Yeah. Vice Consul James Hogan left his residence late last Thursday, on Thursday night and, unfortunately, hasn’t been heard from since. And I believe his wife reported his disappearance on Friday. And since then, the Embassy and Diplomatic Security has been working closely with the authorities in Curacao to locate Mr. Hogan.

QUESTION: Do they think it’s something related to foul play or --

MR. KELLY: I --

QUESTION: -- have absolutely no leads, no idea?

MR. KELLY: No. Well, unfortunately not, not that I’m aware of. It’s a – of course, we’re extremely concerned, as is his family, that we have no --

QUESTION: Can you confirm the Dutch Royal Navy --

MR. KELLY: -- information.

QUESTION: -- and the U.S. Navy are assisting in the search?

MR. KELLY: No, I can’t. Yes, I can. (Laughter.) Yes, the Dutch Royal Navy is assisting in the search.

QUESTION: And the U.S. Navy, apparently?

MR. KELLY: Yes, and the U.S. Navy.

James Hogan reportedly arrived in Curacao last summer for a 2-year assignment. He was the Consulate’s Pol/Econ/Con officer until his disappearance a week ago. An officer recently arrived in Bogota had been ordered to fly to Curacao to run the consular shop in the island temporarily.




That last sentence....the Bogota officer ordered to Curacao to fill in for Mr. Hogan after his disappearance...maybe?

 ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.24ora.an/images/stories/news/2009/september/sept30/flyer_james_hogan%20engels-spaans.pdf

English/Spanish Flyer

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http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/dna-match-in-james-hogan-search.html

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009

DNA Match in James Hogan Search


US Diplomat Now Missing for 9 Days in Curacao

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Source: Bonaire Reporter



Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports that DNA research by The Netherlands Forensic Institute has confirmed that blood traces found on the island of Curacao are from the missing diplomat, James Hogan. “The latest statement issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office for the Dutch Antilles confirmed that blood traces found on clothing and on the ground nearby are a match for Mr Hogan, who went missing eight days ago. The local authorities announced that a mobile telephone had been found in the sea and was being investigated further.” The report also states that “the Curacao police have now set up an anonymous tip line for anyone with information about his disappearance.”


The Bonaire Reporter posted online a poster distributed in the Toni Kuchi area (see above) as well as a photo of Mr. Hogan that appears to be taken from an ESTA briefing in 2008. It repeats what has been reported earlier that “a large scale investigation on land and in the sea continues with equipment and manpower from Curaçao, the central government, the Netherlands and the US” and points that there had been little coverage given to this incident in the American press.


The AP has covered the story here and here. The New York Times carried one of the AP stories yesterday here.

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Map Extracted from CIA World Factbook Map

Asked for an update during the Daily Press Briefing yesterday [October 2: 12:50 EDT], the State Department had this to say:



MR. KELLY: Yeah. I think we were all concerned to see the press release of the authorities there regarding the clothes and cell phone that were found belonging to Mr. Hogan. I think you probably saw the press release from the Netherlands forensic service which confirmed that the blood traces found on the clothes were a DNA match for our colleague, Mr. Hogan. These clothes were found on the beach. And of course, we’re – as we always have been, we’re very concerned about the welfare of Mr. Hogan. This is obviously upsetting news. It’s not conclusive news. But we will continue to stay in close touch with the Netherlands forensic service and with the Curacao police.


Related Posts:


US Navy Joins Hogan Search in Curacao
US Diplomat Missing in Curacao

Related Item:

Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Missing US Vice Consul (see link here)
[listen to Netherlands Antilles' correspondent Rene Roodheuvel]


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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1265119.html


Posted on Sat, Oct. 03, 2009

Curacao cops: Witnesses saw missing US diplomat

By DANICA COTO
Associated Press Writer

Investigators searching for a missing U.S. diplomat in Curacao said Saturday that several people have reported seeing him around the time he vanished.

Tips considered credible began trickling in after police on the Dutch Caribbean island posted fliers with numbers that people could call anonymously, according to police spokesman Reggie Huggins.

"We have talked to quite a lot of people that one way or another have helped," he said, declining to release further details.

U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan, 49, has been missing since he left home last week for one of his regular midnight walks.

Authorities have found his bloody clothes at Baya Beach, a popular tourist spot known for water sports and vibrant nightlife, and divers located Hogan's cell phone in the ocean.

Part of the beach remained closed to fishermen and tourists Saturday as authorities searched for more evidence.

A U.S. Navy ship on a routine port visit to Curacao dispatched a helicopter shortly after Hogan's disappearance to search the beach, ocean and a nearby waterway, but crews did not find anything, said Lt. Commander John Daniels.

Hogan lived with his wife in Toni Kunchi, a peaceful neighborhood outside the capital, Willemstad, that is home to diplomats and wealthy business owners.

Hogan, who has legal residence in Florida, arrived in Curacao in August 2008 for a two-year assignment, according to U.S. State Department records.

He also had consular duties for the nearby Dutch island of Aruba, where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

Hogan completed junior foreign service officer training in 2005 and spent two years as a consular officer in Gaborone, Botswana.

Curacao lies about 30 miles (48 kilometers) off the coast of Venezuela and serves as the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government.



© 2009 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miamiherald.com

http://curacao.usconsulate.gov/uploads/images/nXyIwfyZCXXtdMpu8FGccA/WEEKLY_News.pdf

Kingdom – Dismantling Date Netherlands Antilles: 10/10/10

St. Maarten and Curacao are scheduled to become separate semi-autonomous entities within the Dutch Kingdom on October 10, 2010.

The governments of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles together with the St. Maarten and Curacao Island governments agreed upon the date to dismantle the Netherlands Antilles during a Kingdom Political Steering Group meeting, yesterday.

The parties decided to make this date irrevocable; however special conditions might apply if the new entities do not meet certain arranged requirements. The areas of main concern are justice, police, and good governance. (Various media)

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63305.php

DNA-research confirms blood belongs to James Hogan
2 Okt, 2009, 12:44 (GMT -04:00)




WILLEMSTAD — The Spanish Water is currently being searched thoroughly for evidence of the missing American vice-consul James Hogan. Certain parts of the Spanish Water were closed off today. Baya Beach was once again accessible, but the gate at the road leading to the Quarantine building was still closed.

As of Wednesday morning, an underwater search is being carried out in the Spanish Water and at the entrance of the Spanish Water leading to the open sea. The searches, which are being carried out by Antillean, Dutch, and American defense personnel, occur daily, and start amongst others at the boathouse of the rescue organization Citro at the Caracas Bay.

Everyone had already left around nine o’clock this morning, apart from two Americans who were about to launch their kayak and search the surrounding. Unfortunately, they were not very talkative. One of them just barely nodded his confirmation that the team had experience in searching for missing people elsewhere in the world. However, for the sake of the search, they are not allowed to talk to the press.
Two small boats can be seen with men in camouflage clothing searching the water just further on the Spanish water, near the inlet at the Curaçao Yacht Club. However, they are too far out to ask them whether they had found anything important.

The coastguard requests users of the Spanish Water to act upon indications that sailing movements are limited and when certain parts are temporarily closed off. This search will continue until further notice. A kind of underwater robot is used to search the bottom.

Blood trails
Based on DNA-research, the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) confirms that the blood on the found clothing, the clothing itself, and the blood trails on the soil at the peninsula of the Caracas Bay, belongs to the missing American vice-consul James Hogan.

Hogan was last seen on Thursday evening of last week. He had left his residence at Toni Kunchi just before ten PM for a walk. His clothes and a few objects were found during the afternoon of the following day. Furthermore, the Public Prosecutor confirms that Hogan’s mobile telephone was found last Wednesday within the searching area at sea. This is currently being investigated.

Possible lift
Investigation has revealed that the vice-consul had first remained in the neighborhood, and afterwards, between eleven and twelve PM, had apparently first visited Bapor Kibrá and then Baya Beach. Therefore, the police are requesting witnesses who had perhaps offered Hogan a lift, whether or not in the company of others, to specifically report this to the police. “We are still missing a whole lot of pieces of the puzzle”, says spokesperson Reginald Huggins. Hogan’s family is being kept out of this as much as possible. It is not known whether things have been confiscated from his residence in the framework of the investigation.

A briefing is held every afternoon. Police spokesperson Huggins expected to release more information possibly this afternoon.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63346.php

10/3/2009 Amigoe

Google translation:

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http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/4988576/__Diplomaat_VS_op_Curaao_spoorloos__.html

Google translation:

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I am confused, these tanslations always confuse me actually.  Are they saying that he was involved with criminals/drug dealers and that his secretary found out or that the secretary was and that was why he fired her?  And just why would that have anything to do with him missing anyways?  Drug dealers don't need a secretary to bring drugs into an area.....that could only just point out connections to unsavory people.

OK, so he had just fired his Secretary and I think they are saying the Secretary may have associated with criminals.  He also had just had a fight with his wife.  I'm wondering if the Secretary was having an affair with the wife?  Everyone assumes Secretary is a woman but it could easily be a man as well.

IF this is actually the daughter (This comment has been referred to in some media, I wish we knew for sure), this is what she said (in quote below)...I've been wondering if anything was ever going to come out about WHO/if anyone was fired.  Now it seems it was the secretary.  It would also be nice to know the reason given for the firing.

I've read in several "comments" to articles that he was known to engage frequently with prostitutes, no idea if it's true or not; but I don't really see why/how that would have led to this.

From what I've read....At the time of his disappearance there was a major conflict going on due to a strike by the refinery workers.  There was also a conflict about the new Hyatt that is under construction near where his clothes were found.  No idea if either may have been a catalyst to what happened, just wanted to mention these things I've read some about.

From what I've read he took these walks frequently, so many had probably seen him and knew it was part of his routine.



http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-334652

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2248599/james_hogan_us_vice_consul_missing.html?cat=9


James Hogan, U.S. Vice Consul Missing in Curacao, Last Seen Taking Midnight Walk a Week Ago

October 04, 2009

by Janet Shan


Hogan's Bloody Clothes, Trail of Blood and Cellphone Found
 
 
The Dutch Caribbean is in the news again. This time U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan, 49, has been missing on the tiny island of Curacao since he left home on September 24, 2009, for one of his regular midnight walks. The police have said tips considered credible have begun trickling in since fliers were posted with numbers that people could call anonymously. Authorities found his bloody clothes at Baya Beach, which is a popular tourist resort known for water sports and a vibrant nightlife. His cell phone was located in the ocean by divers. This does not bode well that he will be found alive.

Based on DNA testing, the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) confirmed that the blood on the found clothing, the clothing itself, and the blood trails on the soil at the peninsula of the Caracas Bay, belongs to Hogan. Lt. Commander John Daniels said a U.S. Navy ship on a routine port visit to Curacao dispatched a helicopter shortly after Hogan's disappearance to search the beach, ocean and a nearby waterway, but crews did not find anything. It is amazing that this story has flown under the mainstream media radar. You will recall the absolute horrendous handling of the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway in 2005, on the smaller island of Aruba. This case was never solved despite an alleged confession by Joran Vander Sloot caught on tape.

U.S. State Department records show that Hogan, who arrived on the island August 2008 for a two-year assignment, had a legal residence in Florida, but no city or town is listed. He completed junior foreign service officer training in 2005 and spent two years as a consular officer in Gabarone, Botswana.

49 Year Old U.S. Diplomat James Hogan Missing in Curacao Since September 24, 2009 (UPDATE: DNA Match to Bloody Clothes)

http://missingexploited.com/2009/09/30/49-year-old-us-diplomat-james-hogan-missing-in-curacao-since-september-24-2009-update-dna-match-to-bloody-clothes/

There is a DNA match to the bloody clothes found on the beach in Curacao and that of missing US vice consul James Hogan. The Netherlands forensic institute has confirmed that there is a DNA match.

Curacao – The DNA research by the Netherlands forensic institute confirmed that blood traces found on clothing and beach of Curacao belong to missing US vice consul James Hogan.

The United States said Thursday it has been searching for the US vice consul in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao since his wife reported him missing last Friday.

The local authorities announced that a mobile telephone had been found in the sea.

It's great to see you, Red!   ::MonkeySlide::::MonkeyCool:: 

I hope the answers come soon. 

I also find that very interesting.

Even more so, if we learn that this man replaced Jean Akers in that Consular position.....

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/us-vice-consul%E2%80%99s-disappearance-still-mystery

US vice consul’s disappearance still a mystery

Published on5 October 2009 - 10:19am

Filed under: Curaçao James Hogan missing Natalee Holloway Vice Consul

As the search for the missing United States vice consul James Hogan on the island of Curaçao goes on, his disappearance remains a mystery.

The many tips being received from the public via special telephone numbers are all being followed up, police spokesman Reginald Huggins told Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

Mr Hogan disappeared on the island in the Netherlands Antilles more than a week and a half ago after he went out for an evening walk. All that has been found of him are his mobile phone and a pair of jeans bearing traces of blood. Large teams have been scouring Spanish Water, an enclosed bay east of Willemstad, aided by coastguard helicopters and the US navy. According to the local police spokesman, Hogan’s body could have been washed into the bay by the strong current. His jeans and mobile were found on the seaward side of the peninsula, which is also being searched.

According to Mr Huggins, the investigation is still being led by the public prosecutor’s office in collaboration with the local police, and not by the FBI, as a report in the Dutch press suggested. However, the Netherlands and the US are providing technical expertise. The police spokesman did not exclude the possibility that FBI agents might be on the island, but said they are not part of the investigation team. The investigation is remaining open to any possible scenarios concerning Mr Hogan’s disappearance.

Although the US media have reported the case, so far they appear to be following it at a distance. Comparisons are inevitably being drawn to the dissappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway, who went missing on the Antillean island of Aruba in 2005.


 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad::

Oct. 5

QUESTION: Do you have any update on your search for your missing vice consul in Curacao?

MR. KELLY: No, I regret to say we don’t. And I’d like to be able to tell you that we have some good news, but I don’t. I think the only update I have for you is that the local authorities set up an anonymous tip line, as you may have seen, and that has produced, I think, several eyewitnesses who saw him that night, and the local police are following up on those leads. But unfortunately, I don’t have any other news besides that.

QUESTION: And you believe that his disappearance is related to criminal elements?

MR. KELLY: Well, I don’t know. I mean, obviously, finding his blood on clothes is not an encouraging development.

QUESTION: Thank you.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/oct/130291.htm


I hope the "eye witnesses" aren't there to bad mouth him...or have the same last name as the perp.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

I agree Buckeye.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Or ARE the perp/s!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/us-vice-consul%E2%80%99s-disappearance-still-mystery

Picture from this article:

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http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/missing-diplomat%E2%80%99s-mobile-found-cura%C3%A7ao

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1y5UDbnKj4

Another video has been posted.  I didn't understand much at all...CNN...LaPrensa International...Puerto Rico..

I'm trying to get a translation, if I do I'll post an update.

Most of this is archive video that we've seen..a couple shots we hadn't.

http://news.laprensacur.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5136:korant-ulandes-ku-artikulo-riba-e-kaso-investigashon-di-korupshon-ta-relata-ku-morto-james-hogan&catid=34:politika&Itemid=56

Papiamentu translation:

newspaper dutch with artíkulo on the kaso: investigation of korupshon is relatá with dead james hogan?

written by administrator monday, 05 october 2009 22:52

willemstad - for intensivo with the búskeda of the vise kònsùl american james hogan was, till with now not owing to find the fellow here. entretantu owing to enter the of two week with hogan is pèrdí. according one artíkulo with owing to leave in end of week in the newspaper dutch de telegraaf, after of his disappearance owing to comense spekulá at once with his disappearance can have something want bear with the organisashon criminal with owing to discover for that owing to as redada at great eskala much at boneiru, curaçao, ulanda and in with reportadamente will had labamentu of miónes of dollar.

is deal of the affair waystreet owing to listra home of vários figure prominente, among that ramonsito booi and eks diputado burney elhage. also owing to listra at dark-room of business.

sumanan big was drive atraves of usa. the affair is in pleno investigation still.

hustisia and police is as bill seriamente with the diplomat american here, james hogan owing to being murder.

as we owing to acquaint for of week ago, fiskal mr. lumila vicento with is enkargá with the affair here, owing to anunsiá with owing to find one trouser at baya beach and with owing to base of information of family was suspect with can is pañanan with hogan had dress ayá with his disappearance.

together with the pañanan owing to find mancha of blood, much partially on the pañanan self as at the sitio waystreet owing to find the pañanan.

owing to send the pañanan for investigation ulanda, for her institute nederlands forensisch instituut (nfi) for more investigation.

nfi entretantu owing to send acquaint outoridatnan local, with provided that bèrdat is deal of pañanan of hogan and with one investigation of dna owing to demostrá with is blood of hogan.

investigadónan with owing to dive in the area of caracasbaai and baya beach owing to find also the telephone selular of hogan in sea.

more with 150 fellow, accompany with kachó and aparatonan sonar owing to produce one búskeda much intensive friday last.

as is known, entretantu owing to arrive equipment sofistiká for of usa for help in the búskeda here, among another one apparatus style robòt with is look for below ; superfisie of sea.

owing to make usage also of helikòpter american. the investigation is dirigí now for 5 agent of fbi.

the funshonarionan here owing to come for of usa for dirigí the investigation “pa avoid with is kometé the same aberration with owing to kometé with the affair of natalie holloway at aruba” (esei is one sita for of the artíkulo in the korant).

according minister of hustisia of antilles, the investigation have all prioridat.

the affair of disappearance here entretantu is news at usa. the kanalnan big of television is relatando the affair.

one portabos of gobièrnu american owing to tell, with gobièrnu american is “sumamente preokupá” for her affair here. james hogan, according they owing to tell, was as kònsùl also responsible for aruba time of disappearance of natalee holloway. holloway, one damita of 19 year owing to disparsé 4 year ago after of owing to happen holiday at aruba and till today not owing to find know his paradero.

as la prensa owing to come is acquaint all the dianan here, the affair is kedando one enigma absolute.

already had komentarionan finish with god let the affair not become one affair wing natalee holloway, because this can okashoná enough damage at imagination of curaçao. police is as bill with all possibility, so police owing to suprayá, among that asesinato, sekuestro or one atrako with owing to leave for of hand. also is searching possible motibunan for his disappearance.

james hogan owing to bandoná his home thursday night with purpose of go djòg in area of caracasbaai. the not owing to come back and his spouse owing to acquaint police of this in kurso of friday morning.

the is one fellow of postura high (1 metre 84) and have 49 year of age. the will owing to bandoná home, after of one discussion enough burdensome with his spouse. hour past owing to leave home, the had one trouser jeans blue dress with one suèter blue dark.

investigation owing to demostrá, according fuentenan polisial, with hogan korto time ayá with his disappearance, owing to retirá his secretary. the secretary here reportadamente will was mantené contact estrecho with low world.

hogan is park at antilles for of 2008.

the part of the area of caracasbaai with was será for public, for not difikultá the investigation, entretantu is open again.

police owing to find various tep balioso, but is follow count on information with komunidat will can give on the affair here.

bosero polisial reginald huggins owing to elogiá the comparison with police owing to find till with now of komunidat, but owing to tell at once, with the is follow count on the comparison here.

can give any information at the cord known with is work 24 hour for day, esta 911 and also can give at the cord anonymous 108. besides can make usage of the cord 866- 6124.

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Same Article Papiamentu/Google Spanish translation:

artikulo with Dutch newspaper on the kaso: investigation of korupshon is dead story with James Hogan?

Written by Administrator Monday, 05 October 2009 22:52

willemstad - for intensive with the búskeda of the vise Konsul american james hogan was, till now with not Owing to find the fellow here. Owing to enter the entretantu of two week with hogan is lost. Owing according to one artikulo with leave in end of week in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, after of his disappearance Owing to comense SPEKULA at once with his disappearance can have something with the bear want with criminal organisashon Owing to discover for that Owing to as raid at great eskala much at Bonaire, Curacao, Ulander and will had reported in with labamentu of lorries of dollar.

Deal of the affair is waystreet Owing to Lystra home of several figures prominently among that ramonsito Booi and deputy Burney Elhage eks. Owing also to Lystra at dark-room of business.

THROUGH drive was big sumana of use. The affair is still in full investigation.

hustisia Bill and police is as seriously with the American diplomat here, James Hogan Owing to being murder.

Acquainted as we Owing to for of weeks ago, fiskal mr. Lumila Vicento with is Enkarga with the affair here, Owing to anunsiá with one trouser Owing to find at berry beach and with Owing to base of information of family was suspect with can is panana aya dress with hogan had with his disappearance.

together with the pañanan owing to find mancha of blood, much partially on the pañanan self as at the sitio waystreet owing to find the pañanan.

Owing to send the panana for investigation Ulander, for her institute Forensisch nederlands instituut (nfi) for more investigation.

Owing to send entretantu nfi outoridatnan Acquainted local, with provided that is bèrdat deal of panana of hogan and with one Owing to investigation of DNA is shown with blood of hogan.

investigadónan with Owing to dive in the area of soft beach and caracasbaai Owing to find also the telephone selular of hogan in it.

more with 150 fellow, and accompany with kacho aparatonan Owing to produce one sound much intensive búskeda last friday.

as is known, entretantu Owing to arrive for sofistiká of equipment used for help in the búskeda here, another one apparatus among style robot with is look for below; superfisie of sea.

Owing also to make usage of helikopter american. The investigation is headed now for 5 agent of FBI.

Owing to the funshonarionan here come for of using for headed the investigation "is komete pa avoid with the same aberration with Owing to komete with the affair of at aruba natalie holloway (esei is located for one of the artikulo in the korant).

according minister of hustisia of antilles, the investigation have all prioridat.

The Affair of disappearance here is news at entretantu used. kanalnan big the television is telling of the affair.

one behaved himself of Equality Policies american Owing to tell, with Equality Policies american is "extremely preokupá" for her affair here.

James Hogan, according they Owing to tell, as was also responsible for aruba Konsul time of disappearance of Natalee Holloway. holloway, one lady of 19 year Owing to shoot 4 year ago after of Owing to happen holiday at aruba and till today Owing to find not know his whereabouts.

as the press is acquainted Owing to come all the targets here, the affair is kedando one absolute enigma.

komentarionan had already finish with god not let the affair become one wing Natalee Holloway affair, Because this can okashoná imagination of enough damage at Curaçao. police is as bill with all possibility, so police Owing to overlying, among that murder, or one Atrako with sekuestro Owing to leave for of hand. searching is also possible motibunan for his disappearance.

James Hogan Owing to bandon his home Thursday night with purpose of go Djogo in area of caracasbaai. Owing to the not come back and his spouse Acquainted Owing to police of this in kurso of friday morning.

Fellow of the position is one high (1 meter 84) and have 49 year of age. Owing to the will bandon home, after enough of one discussion with his spouse burdensome. Owing past hour to leave home, the had one trouser jeans blue dress with one dark blue sweater.

Owing to investigation showed, according fuentenan Polysialic, with Korto hogan aya time with his disappearance, his secretary Owing to retire. the secretary was here reported will remain in close contact with low world.

hogan is park at antilles for of 2008.

the part of the area of caracasbaai with was to be for public, for not difikultá the investigation, entretantu is open again.

Owing to find various police balioso toe, but is follow count on information with komunidat will can give on the affair here.

Polysialic Boser Owing to Reginald Huggins commended the comparison with police Owing to find till now of komunidat with, but Owing to tell at once, with the follow count on is the comparison here.

can give any information at the cord is known with 24 hour for day work, the 911 and also can give anonymous at the cord 108. besides can make usage of the cord 866 to 6124.


 ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyWaa:: ::MonkeyConfused::

Seems to me that the article is saying he WAS the consul responsible for Aruba at the time of Natalee's disappearance?  I wonder if Beth Holloway recognizes him, if they crossed paths at any time? hmmmm

It also seems that some may think this is related to the recent multi-national investigation that resulted in arrests in Bonaire, Aruba, Holland, and an earlier arrest in the US iirc?  I have to wonder if that is because he was involved with the investigation, or his secretary may have had contact with some of the suspects (the mention of low life's).

Maybe it's just all speculation, I just don't know! 

But I sure would like to KNOW! 

This is my search result for the LaPrensa articles if anyone else wants to try translating them.  I think the others are older so I understand if you think it's not worth the effort.

My brain is fried...if I keep it up I'll need wreck's avi.    ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyWink::


http://news.laprensacur.com/index.php?searchword=James+Hogan&ordering=&searchphrase=all&option=com_search

I thought I read in one of the earlier articles that his position is only a 2 year post?  ::MonkeyConfused::  That's why I was wondering if he replaced Akers at some point?  We know she was there in Sept 05, and was the Consul responsible for Aruba, but when did she leave?

Why am I not surprised?  Not even a little bit.

Our media better hustle their rear ends down there and get ALL OVER this story!!!!!

It is Deja vu.  This is precisely what happened with Natalee - local press lying to the public about the investigation, so the local authorities could seem to be doing all they can, all the way to involving FBI in the investigation.

When really the agents are only there as an eyewash.

Curacao really learned NOTHING on what not to do after Natalee on Aruba, did they?

 ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad::

Buckeye - I almost hate to say it but....................what do you want to bet there are local "eye witnesses" that have started spouting the following stories:

He's a run away
He was having an affair
He was molesting his daughter
He's involved in the drug world
He's involved in organized crime

And of course, my all time favorite - It's just an insurance scam!

 ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad::

**Apologies for any offense this post caused, this is a short list of what we all heard from the Aruban locals about Natalee.

Yes, I thought Jean Akers was assigned to Cambodia or somewhere in that area.....my memory tells me it was about 2 years ago....I just do not have the documentation handy, at the moment.  Would have to spend some time digging for that info and the source.

This article shows that as of Sept.'07, Akers was vice consul in Cambodia.  She was reassigned, obviously, some time before that.  I haven't found that, as yet.

Don't Be Taken in by Visa Scams

U.S. Embassy, Phnom Penh
September 12, 2007

In response to increasing reports of dishonest agencies offering high school student programs and vocational internships for hefty fees, Consular Chief Anne Simon and the Chief of the Embassy's Nonimmigrant Visa Unit, Jean Akers, recently took to the radio and TV airwaves to warn Cambodian citizens about these scams. The consular officials urged the public to carefully evaluate company claims, and they emphasized that the Embassy does not guarantee visas to anyone. They also urged people to contact the Embassy if they have been the victim of a visa scam or fraud.

Jean Akers taped interviews in Khmer for TVK's "Good Morning Cambodia" and CTN's "Sunday Talk Show," in which she educated viewers about the nonimmigrant and immigrant visa application processes, including the Diversity Visa lottery.  Ms. Akers emphasized that all applicants should beware of people and organizations who claim they can help procure a U.S. visa in exchange for a high fee.  She stressed that only a U.S. consular officer at the Embassy can adjudicate a visa application and the Embassy does NOT guarantee nonimmigrant visas for any study or exchange program.  Cambodians wishing to participate in such a program should carefully research the sponsoring U.S. organization to ensure it is legitimate.  All fees charged should be reasonable, fair, transparent and refundable.

Consular Chief Anne Simon participated in the Women's Media Center's live call-in radio show on FM 102 as well as Voice of Democracy's news hour on FM 105.  During the live show, most of the questions focused on the Diversity Visa Lottery (DV), and Ms. Simon warned listeners that dishonest agencies in Phnom Penh have been extorting money from winners of the DV lottery.  These companies have assisted Cambodians to apply for the DV program and later charged the winners outrageous fees.  Winners DO NOT have to pay money to receive their case number.  The Embassy can assist DV lottery winners to obtain their number without paying a fee.  Winners were are also warned not to enter into fake marriages or use fake documents; if they do, they will be disqualified and be permanently ineligible for a visa to the United States.

Please contact the U.S. Embassy at visasphp@state.gov if you are being extorted by a local broker or to report visa scams, fraud, malfeasance, and other illegal activity involving nonimmigrant and immigrant visas.

http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/visa_scams.html
 

Aruba all over again..

Thanks 2NJ!  So if Hogan replaced Akers, the timing would work.........and would also make sense for that article that looks to be saying he holds the consular position for Aruba.

So since she was at Joran's Welcome Home from JAIL party in early Sept 05, she made the transition to Cambodia pretty quickly.

Scratch that.............I was reading 07 and thinking 05..............and apparently had a brain cramp!  ::MonkeyHaHa:: ::MonkeyConfused::

So she then was new to the position in Sept 05.................if that is truly a 2 year post as a previous article in this thread has stated.

New to position in 2004, then went to Cambodia in '07.

FOREIGN SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE TOPIC OF BROWN-BAG LUNCH AT OU

NORMAN – Anyone interested in a career in the foreign service or with the U.S. Department of State won’t want to miss the brown-bag lunch with Foreign Service Officer Jean Akers, who will discuss “Foreign Service and Other Opportunities at the State Department,” at noon Tuesday, Aug. 29, on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, in 132 Ellison Hall, 633 Elm Ave.

A native Oklahoman, Akers graduated from Casady School in 1992. She received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1999 and a master of arts in international relations from the University of Amsterdam in 2003.

Akers joined the State Department in January 2004 and currently is finishing her first assignment at the U.S. Consulate General in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. In her next assignment, she will serve as a consular officer at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The free, public discussion is sponsored by the School of International and Area Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information and accommodations on the basis of disability, contact Sandi Emond at (405) 325-1584 or semond@ou.edu.

http://casweb.ou.edu/home/news/press/press_20060828.html

Thanks 2NJ!

I know.  I'm concerned.  And, they've probably scared the family into not speaking up.

Oct 6

Nothing today from the State Department. Only a six minute meeting.

I agree, it started with the first reports.  Possible implication of the wife because of an argument.  That seed has been planted, and when they don't solve it; that doubt will always linger and they will feed it!  JMO

 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad::

Interesting....not saying it has anything to do with this case...but interesting.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63424.php

Google translation:

CURAÇAO

Three skeletons found

October 6, 2009, 14:28 (GMT -04:00)

PHILIPSBURG - In two days time there are fewer than three skeletons found on the island. Yesterday afternoon at Bándabou were on the plain of San Pedro side found two skeletons. And this morning was at Rancho, Sun Valley, also found a skeleton. The police spokesman could not report much more than it does to old skeletons. The bones were seized by experts for examination.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63431.php

Google translation:

CURAÇAO

Bijleveld deplores slow progress improvement process police

October 6, 2009, 14:35 (GMT -04:00)

PHILIPSBURG - State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (Kingdom Relations, CDA) was expected to soon start the improvement process could be continued with police when, in June signed a cooperation agreement. "That it has lasted a little longer than expected, I regret," Bijleveld said yesterday in a letter to the House on her recent visit.

It indicates however that "the importance of a broad plan of action is paramount. "Only with a broad base are necessary to achieve fundamental improvements." In December, the House Bijleveld elaborate on progress of the improvement process.

Bijleveld was from September 28 to October 2 in Curacao and Bonaire. She also had an introductory meeting with the new Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles, Magali Jacoba. "Nice and constructive", that is experienced by Bijleveld. Jacoba mainly indicated which she accents the performance of its portfolio will make.

Jobs
"We also have good agreements about the mutual commitment of the Netherlands and the country when it comes to filling vacancies that occur on the islands soon part of the Netherlands will be entering."

The women rule also looks back at the meeting of the Police Presidium of the improvement process days before, and spoke in particular about the use plans for the Joint Provisional Police and the sub-group teaching. "I've expressed my concerns here about the progress on these issues, in particular because the guarantee of an adequate control of transnational organized crime and after the transition," said Bijleveld.

"Regarding the developments in the Bon Futuro Prison, the Minister the previous evening that she shared the integrated plan, that following the signing of the Cooperation Bon Futuro improvement process is established, has receipted. This plan is the director of the Bon Futuro and three managers of Department of Correctional Institutions (DJI) in consultation with the unions and is also drawn broad support. "

"During our discussions the minister announced that it was still negotiating with the unions on the deployment of Dutch DJI, and in particular the deployment of the DJI-middle managers. She said the expectation out there this week with the unions to reach agreement on. Meanwhile I can report today that the Netherlands made available DJI middle managers and executives to work the prison. They will, together with their Antillean counterparts, implementing to give the joint, integrated plan of action and if the desired improvements in the Bon Futuro prison reality ", said State Secretary Bijleveld.

Maybe before all of this?   ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63422.php

Google translation:

CURAÇAO

Journalists at Sta. Barbara

October 6, 2009, 14:23 (GMT -04:00)

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Journalists are explanations of Jim Bollinger, who oversees the construction of the golf course, and sales manager Jan-Peter Klijn.

PHILIPSBURG - Santa Barbara Plantation acted in recent days to host a group of eight American journalists - both English-and Spanish-speaking, from the region's Florida and New York - that knowledge came with Curaçao and the hotel and luxury housing project behind Barbara Beach .

The journalists spent four days on the island. They examined include the Santa Barbara project in development, namely the golf course under construction, the housing (Seru Boca Estate, Fairway Estate, Newport Estate, Marina Village, Terrace Homes), the beach and the Hyatt hotel under construction.

Beginning in 2010, the Hyatt hotel operational.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080420021134/http://www.dmni.com/southern_africa_trade_mission_pretrip.html

10/20/2006

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I'm wondering what Mr. Hogan did before this:


Hogan completed junior foreign service officer training in 2005 and spent two years as a consular officer in Gaborone, Botswana.


Something I read I don't remember where now, implied that he may have been a DEA agent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4f78knmBAQ&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/v/r4f78knmBAQ&hl=en&fs=1&

telecuracao

october 06, 2009

police owing to find 3 skelèt human, two owing to stay dekubrí at near under day 5oct 2009 and 6oct 2009 owing to go back enter one melding with owing to find one skelèt in mondinan at rancho. with another word, three skelèt human in less with 24 hour

This case reminds me of echoes from the past. 
 
Does anyone know if Greta has covered this?  If not, why not?!

1. Bones are found on land NOT in water. It is the same with 99 percent of all the death cases we have logged over the years.

2. Skeletal... It is obvious by the video that these are bleached white bones. These bodies have been laying there for a very long time unnoticed.

For such small islands it appears very easy to dispose of bodies on land without much concern. I did notice a jaw bone in the bag with teeth connected so possible they will find out who it is. 

Cheese and Rice!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you Edward, for such a small land mass to have no less than THREE skeletonized remains (so far) just lying around to be found - makes one wonder just where law enforcement has been all this time?

It's simply surreal that there could be dead bodies laying around that no one pays any mind to on that island.

What in the hell is going on in those ABC islands????

Can, I haven't seen anything on any US media stations about this.  But I've missed a few days of news watching the past week or so.

Thanks Jen.  Strange there is so little in the media. 

http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=43984855001

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
Oct. 7, 2009
Daily Press Briefing by Department Spokesman Ian Kelly.

No mention of Mr. Hogan's disappearance or the status of the investigation in today's State Department Press Briefing.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

10/7/2009 Bondia Page 20

http://www.bondia.com/index.php?option=com_flippingbook&book_id=2

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Papiamentu translation:

oranjestad – vocero of police interino, sr. john larmonie is informa cu cuerpo policial aruba because; coperacion cu corp. politie curacao owing to cuminsa distribui flyernan cu informacion general relaciona cu the desaparicion of the vice consul mericano, james hogan. for of day 24 of september ultimo the agent diplomatico here owing to desaparece at corsow y still autoridad competente not have informacion on his paradero. for aclaria the enigma of the desaparicion here, is being solicita comunidad provided that general of aruba y antilles for suministra cualkier informacion cu will can help for busca one solucion at the caso here.

http://www.diario.aw/2009/10/buskeda-di-james-hogan-ta-sigui-non-stop/

10/8/2009 Diario

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Papiamentu translation:

buskeda of james hogan is follow non-stop

publication: diahuebs, 8 october 2009. categoria: general

oranjestad (aan): keto bay the vice-consul of merca staciona at curacao, esta james hogan is desapareci. his desaparicion owing to achieve atencion of prensa mericano, because; also of prensa dutch. in end of week, prensa at the netherlands owing to even apunta finger on one supuesto caso of corupcion, y cu this will can have algo of haber cu the dead of the funcionario oficial here. autoridad at curacao is haciendo one buskeda intensivo of james hogan, y the asunto owing to become more misterioso hour cu owing to stay confirma cu blood cu owing to worde achieve throw abao on cloths at caracasbaai, is pertence at dje. prensa dutch is indica, cu have much speculacion cu the desaparicion of james, have algo of haber cu the organizacion criminal cu owing to descubri, for cual owing to as razzia pisa at tanto aruba, bonaire, curacao, y the netherlands month happen.

the caso ey have of haber cu labamento miyonario of dollar, y the.o. traficacion of gold, cu the.o. was happen via of merca.

can corda cu at aruba owing to as razzia also at some cas, owing to confisca several car y material of proof. at bonaire owing to listra cas of the.o. ramonsito booi y ex- diputado burney elhage.

the investigacion did take one direction, where autoridad apparently is convenci cu james owing to worde asesina. his celular owing to worde achieve in sea. they're usando much person for busca all caminda, y is even haciendo usage of sonar.

merca owing to send equipo specializa in search, y this will worde using in sea. police of curacao all the time owing to send the poster here for her islands neighbour also, esta aruba, where is solicita informacion of cualkier person cu can know algo of james.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63565.php


Also search by Hogan

October 8, 2009, 14:32 (GMT -04:00)

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PHILIPSBURG - In the house of the missing American vice consul James Hogan is now to show a search conducted. Hogan was two weeks ago when he was last seen at his house Toni Kunchi evening around ten feet to left. The search stopped at sea Tuesday afternoon.
 
As vice consul was being UN Vienna Convention on consular relations Hogan apply. But he is not inviolable. For the search of his home was to require approval must be given to the court. On the other hand, applies to diplomats known as Hogan or diplomatic courtesy.

Representatives of the Antillean government, including Foreign Relations Department, will the U.S. State Department and consulate in the U.S. to keep abreast of all developments. It is done more than what the country is obliged. Conversely, it also happens that information to U.S. authorities DBB is passed back to the Antilles. DBB essentially acts as a middleman. These are the existing treaties properly monitored. From the U.S. Embassy in Caracas is a legal assistant who had come to Curacao this deal.

Abroad should at least be made clear that local authorities do everything possible to investigate the missing Hogan. His house is no longer monitored by the government. This is now in the hands of the U.S. consulate.

The authorities have until now been very reluctant to provide information. There is no evidence that seem to point towards a solution of the delay.

 

I'm bringing this over here, since this investigation has been mentioned as possibly being related to Mr. Hogan's disappearance.

http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8035:international-money-investigation-in-curacao-bonaire-aruba-and-europe-&catid=31:general&Itemid=76

International money investigation in Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and Europe      

Written by Ludmila M. Vicento      

Friday, 18 September 2009 13:38

www.sxmislandtime.com

WILLEMSTAD - last week searches took place on Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and in some European countries.

This was done as part of a large and complex research focused on money laundering that was started in 2008 by the Criminal Investigation Team Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (RST) on Curaçao commissioned and led by the Public Prosecutor (OM) of the Netherlands Antilles.

Money Laundering Investigation
Soon after the start has thrown money laundering are in relation to years of organized international drug trafficking. It was tons of drugs transported from Latin America to Europe destination. Given the nature and extent of these drugs, which was directly related to living in the Netherlands suspected APL, the prosecution asked the Netherlands Antilles Dutch authorities to a further inquiry into trafficking in drugs.

It was suspected that this trade several million profitable for the accused APM, through complex and sophisticated money was invested in construction projects including property including Bonaire.

This research was vigorously taken up by the National Wood Flooring Rotterdam and performed by the National Investigation Service in Rotterdam, while at the request of the prosecution Netherlands Antilles were used the expertise of a financial-economic team of the National Research and expertise deprived of the Legislative Office Public Prosecution (BOOM).

Bonaire
The money carried by the RST Curacao research focuses primarily on investments with money derived from crime in real estate on Bonaire. The suspects probably saw the opportunity to profit from drug trafficking laundering million projects on Bonaire were planned. The investigation into the circumstances of these investments also led to the suspicion to some people on the island of Bonaire.

Actions
Given the magnitude of the offenses and the international character, on September 8, 2009 on a large scale simultaneous action organized in five countries simultaneously with the arrest and search went on.

On September 8, 2009, a total of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao four (4) suspects arrested. Vehicles, vessels, aircraft, tens of kilograms of gold, property and money amounts seized. The total value of this runs into tens of millions of dollars.

Research Progress
On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, four searches conducted by authorities on Bonaire. Furthermore, on September 14, 2009 in the Kaya yerba di hole on Curacao a boat was seized. On September 17, 2009 on Bonaire a Harley Davidson was seized.

On September 16 two arrests were made on Bonaire. The initials of the suspects arrested are the following: Y. V. and H.J.

The Public Ministry has submitted a claim to the custody judge for the defendant AW the G. The judge has the claim on September 17, 2009 granted custody.

For the accused W.B. of W, the Public Ministry filed a custody action. Today the judge granted the custody claim.

The ongoing investigation is still in progress and will not be limited to the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Europe. More arrests and searches are not excluded.

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http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7866:home-of-ramacito-booi-on-bonaire-searched-by-police&catid=31:general&Itemid=76

Home of Ramacito Booi on Bonaire searched by police      

Written by Frans Heiligers      

Tuesday, 08 September 2009 21:32

www.sxmislandtime.com

PHILIPSBURG/Willemstad - By order of and guided by the Public Attorney’s Office in the Netherlands Antilles in 2008, a large scale and complicated investigation was started into practices of money-laundering in relation to organized international drug trafficking.

House searches in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Europe
Within the scope of this international criminal investigation,Tuesday confiscations took place on a large number of locations in the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and in a number of European countries, among which The Netherlands, Belgium and Austria.

In this same context, Tuesday in the morning and the early afternoon in Bonaire, eighteen searches were conducted: at eight homes, four government agencies and six company premises. In total two arrests took place: A.W. de G. and A.P.M.

In Curaçao a search took place in two houses and on one commercial property. In doing so, one person was arrested: W.B.v.W. In Aruba searches also took place at four homes. There one arrest took place: C.M.

In total, on the ABC islands 25 houses and commercial dwellings were searched. Finally, searches were held at fourteen houses in European countries, whereby two persons were arrested.

In addition to the arrests, several fire arms, vehicles, a vessel, an airplane, valuable goods, a large amount of money and a quantity of gold have been confiscated.

Smuggling of gold
While investigating the money-laundering practices, a large scale smuggling of gold via Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles came to the open.

This smuggling of gold is related to an arrest on March 27 this year in the USA. The concerned detained person is suspected among others of large scale drug trafficking (cocaine out of Colombia). More than 8 billion dollars went through the accounts in the US which this person was managing.

Searches in Bonaire
During the investigation in the Netherlands Antilles the suspicion rose that a couple of persons in Bonaire committed fraud-related punishable acts in the public administration.

In the well-known ‘Black book Bonaire’, written by Fundashon Bon Gobernashon Boneiru, the alleged procedures of some of these persons have been described earlier.

Within the scope of this suspicion, early on Tuesday morning, searches were conducted at the homes of among others two of these persons in Bonaire. The residents have not been arrested. Furthermore a number of government agencies in Bonaire were searched.

Partners of cooperation
The criminal investigation by order of and led by the Public Attorney’s Office of the Netherlands Antilles is conducted by the team of cooperating detectives of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (Recherche Samenwerkingsteam, RST) in cooperation with the police corps of Curaçao (KPC), the police corps of Bonaire (KPB), the police corps of Aruba (KPA), the customs service of the Netherlands Antilles, the customs service of Aruba, the Coast Guard of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, and a number of foreign investigation services.

The Dutch cooperation partners are: the National Detective Service of the National Corps of police services, the federal detectives, the Bureau Dispossession Laws of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (BOOM), the Functional Office in The Hague, the National Office in Rotterdam and FIOD-ECD.

Finally, the international coalition parties in this investigation are: the American Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA), the federal judicial police of Belgium, the German Bundes Kriminal Ambt and the Austrian Bundes Kriminal Polizei.

In this investigation the Public Attorney’s Offices of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Germany worked together.

The arrests and searches in Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba required the involvement of: four examining magistrates, four public prosecutors and more than one hundred members of the police.

The investigation is still in full swing and will not be limited only to the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Europe. More arrests and searches cannot be excluded.

PHOTO by Francis Cecilia of Radio BonFM Bonaire for SIT.

(I'll add the pics from the article later)

http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7885:booi-says-house-search-politically-motivated&catid=31:general&Itemid=76

Booi says house search politically motivated      

Written by Staff Reporter      

Thursday, 10 September 2009 06:00

www.sxmislandtime.com

PHILIPSBURG - “The search is politically motivated”. That is according to former commissioner and leader of the opposition UPB party on the island territory of Bonaire, Councilman/Senator Ramacito Booi.

The councilman/Senator was reacting to the search carried out at his home and the home of former minister of labor in the Netherlands Antilles, Burney Elhage.

The search was carried out on Tuesday morning by members of the Dutch detective team in connection with an investigation into money laundering, gold smuggling, real estate fraud and drug trafficking.

Senator Ramacito Booi, who is currently in the United States on personally matters, told PJD2 news department that he has not done anything wrong and certainly has not, been involved in any illegal activities.

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Older article but made me go hmmmm


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/29/curacao-caribbean-drug-ring-hezbollah

17 arrested on Curacao for involvement in Hezbollah-linked drug ring

• Four suspects from Lebanon detained on Caribbean island

• Others from Curacao, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia


Associated Press

Wednesday 29 April 2009 21.53 BST

Seventeen people were arrested in Curacao for alleged involvement in a drug trafficking ring with connections to Hezbollah, police in the Dutch Caribbean island said today.

The suspects detained yesterday include four people from Lebanon and others from Curacao, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia, police chief Carlos Casseres said at a news conference.

Some of the proceeds, funneled through informal Middle Eastern banks, went toward supporting groups linked to the militant Hezbollah organization in Lebanon, according to Casseres. The smuggling ring also allegedly forwarded requests from Lebanon for arms to be shipped from South America.

"We have been able to establish that this group has relations with international criminal organizations that have connections with the Hezbollah," prosecutor Ludmila Vicento said.

Island officials said the US and the Netherlands are helping them to investigate the alleged Hezbollah connection.

Two shipments of cocaine totaling 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) have been seized from the ring in Curacao since the beginning of last year. The traffickers used cargo ships and speed boats to import the drugs from Colombia and Venezuela for shipment to Africa and beyond to Europe, according to Curacao authorities.

Several countries including the United States participated in the investigation leading to the arrests.

Authorities with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the US consulate in Curacao said they could not immediately comment on the case.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63609.php

Coast Guard intercepted 334 kilograms of cocaine

October 9, 2009, 15:07 (GMT -04:00)

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PHILIPSBURG - The Coast Guard last night on a yola intercepted 334 kilograms of cocaine. The four Venezuelan crew members were detained.

The Coast Guard mocked the boat between Curacao and Bonaire. The yola enter in the north. Immediately, two units of the Coast Guard, the superrhib and patrol aircraft deployed. The boat was about four hours this morning to be forced to quit the north of Curacao, near Playa Kanoa.

Although the four crew tried to load their boat to sink his twelve bales of drugs seized. The cocaine, with a gross weight of 334 pounds, and the suspects are transferred to the customs investigation. The case is further research.

The twelve proposed 334 kilo bales together. That the cocaine was pointed to the test, see box. The stuff is used by the authorities to test for any drug it is. Given the blue color of the cocaine.

This is an article from 9/29/09 that I overlooked at the time.

http://awemainta.com/home/

9/29/2009 Awe Mainta Page 29

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Papiamentu translation:

autoridadnan is as cuenta cu all sort of scenario in desaparicion of vice consul mericano

pa: godfried adem

willemstad - during of rueda of prensa teni yesterday tardi at keep of police at rio canario (na corsow) autoridadnan of tanto police because; ministerio publico owing to give one view of the investigacion cual owing to wordo conduci till ne momentonan here.

ministerio publico in representacion of sra. mr. ludmila vicento, fiscal of prensa owing to tell cu they're as cuenta cu all scenario although cu till aworaki they're investigando only in direccion of one caso of desaparicion.

not have motib still for think cu is deal of one crimen, but for know of this they owing to arise one tgo team cu is stop for team grootschallig onderzoek. the investigacion cual is being take away is ‘breed spectrum’ y is multidisciplinario. the vice-consul owing to desaparece for of week happen in oranan of night.

after cu the not go back cas the night ey his casa owing to beat alarma serca autoridadnan policial, kendenan at once owing to inicia cu investigacion.

the investigacion still is in one phase preliminar y they not can give very detaye still.

owing to being confirma if cu autoridadnan mericano already is yudando in investigacion here, but cu they cooperacion is djies for give sosten, but cu the supervision is in hand of om at corsow.

alto inspector sambo of cuerpo policial does not owing to confirma neither admiti cu is deal of fbi, but have all indicacion cu fbi because; another entidadnan as cia y dea is enbolbi in the investigacion here.

they owing to confirma cu owing to achieve some cloths in sercania of baya beach at area of caracasbaai, where yesterday they owing to continua cu investigacion tecnico.

autoridadnan yesterday owing to confirma also cu the cloths cu they owing to achieve was at blood y owing to achieve blood also in the area cu they owing to registra because; one ‘plaatsdelict’ come across.

the pañanan here owing to being send nfi institute forensico at rijswijk, the netherlands.

they're suplica comunidad for if they can know algo of the caso here for take contacto cu they at telephone 911 or 108 where they can they can give one declaracion cu is stay anonimo.

http://www.pearlfmradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2720&Itemid=101

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This is another short video of the area where it is believed Mr. Hogan disappeared from.  I don't know if the video was done in relation to the case or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeAHSnrxWw

http://www.youtube.com/v/ojeAHSnrxWw&hl=en&fs=1&

Papiamentu translation:

my reportge caracasbaai

from: telecuracao | october 10, 2009 | 62 views

in my reportahe siudadano ringo harrigan owing to bring some photograph of one senario with did take place at caracasbaai.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3D33q0F48

telecuracao
October 10, 2009
(less info)
INVESTIGASHON VISE KÒNSEL.
Category:  News & Politics
Tags:  TELENOTISIA  VISEKONSE  CURACAO

http://www.youtube.com/v/8i3D33q0F48&hl=en&fs=1&

I've watched the video a few times now, wish I could understand what was being said!   ::MonkeyWaa::

I've taken some screen shots from the video.

I have a LOT of questions....

If I'm understanding the visual parts of the...he was seen in several places that are quite a distance from where he started from and where his jeans were found.  I'm wondering if this information is from security videos that he was caught on that night...or from witnesses?  I do find it hard to believe that he would have walked that distance that night.

I've read that his jeans and cellphone were found.  The video shows tennis shoes, and a knife.  Were those found too?   ::MonkeyShocked::

From the video, the area where evidence was found:

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I don't recall reading that tennis shoes were found, but in the video they show tennis shoes, and blue jeans.

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Of course I don't understand the commentary on the video, but right after they show this blue circle in the water; they show a picture of a knife.

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Later, this description of the knife is shown.

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If they mentioned the cellphone at all I missed it.  The news reports said that the cellphone was found in the sea.  I hope we can get clarification on if the knife was actually found where the blue circle was in the water, or if that's where the cellphone was found.

 ::MonkeyConfused::

My thoughts and prayers are with the Hogan family.   ::MonkeyAngel::

On Oct. 7, someone on tripadvisor asked if Barbara Beach was still closed:

1. Re: Barbara Beach Open?
Oct 07, 2009, 7:21 AM
Destination Expert   What's this?
for Curacao

It is still closed to the public, You can reach it by boat , and you can swim there but you cant really go on land.


http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g147278-i584-k3139124-Barbara_Beach_Open-Willemstad_Curacao.html

TM, I believe this is a summary of the above video.  Includes knife info:

Curacao seek more information over missing Hogan

The police in Curacao want to know more about the events leading to US vice consul James Hogan’s disappearance and general information on his social life.
Related Articles
Bloodly clothes belong to missing US senior diplomat

Curacao – Police in the Dutch Antilles island Curacao have appealed for information to help solve the case of the missing US vice consul James Hogan in a special television broadcast.

The 49-year-old vice consul went missing on 24 September after he went out for a walk at about 11pm. His wife reported him missing the next morning.

Since then, some of his clothes - a pair of jeans, socks and shoes - neatly folded but covered with blood, was found on Baya Beach, many kilometres from his home. A large kitchen knife covered in blood was found nearby. Tests revealed the blood was that of Hogan’s. His mobile telephone was also found later in the water.

In the TV broadcast, police asked the public for information about events that night and general information on Hogan's social life as rumours circulating the island about his private life are contradictory.

The rumours range from his visits to gay bars to him having a preference for Latin American women.

Police are also asking viewers to identify the knife, which was an expensive brand.

During a reconstruction of events that night, places and times were mentioned regarding the vice consul’s possible movements. The police are especially keen to get in touch with the driver of a white two-door BMW, although no reason was given as to why.

Few leads despite wide search
Antillean coastguard and US navy helicopters and underwater robots have been used to scour the whole island and the sea around it.

The water between Baya Beach and Spaans Water (an inland lake with an open passage to the sea) has been dredged. Police had thought the vice consul's body might have been washed into the lake by the strong currents around the lesser Antillean island. Posters have been distributed and local residents have been questioned.

The FBI and US State Department have also involved in the search for the missing man. The Dutch Forensic Institute is also helping with the investigation.
 
Radio Netherlands / Expatica

http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/Curacao-police-seek-more-information-over-missing-Hogan_57183.html


Kinda like Natalee being a lesbian and slut..... ::MonkeyNoNo::

Thanks TxMom and Buckeye.

I find it very weird that his bloody pants, shoes and socks were left folded and placed so neatly.  ::MonkeyConfused::

Thanks Buckeye! 

I still wish we had a translation of the reenactment video; I want to know what is being said.  How did they come to the conclusions about his whereabouts that night?  And what the commentary was, if this was on television there; what impression the viewers were given about events surrounding the disappearance?

Hope that makes sense!

Yes, I know what you mean Buckeye.  Horrible lies were told about Natalee and her family, I think the same is being done in this case too!   ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad::

That struck me immediately, too, when viewing TM's screen shot.  Very weird, I agree.

I found a pretty good interactive map of curacao.  I went to districts and looked at Toni Kunchi.  No way he walked to either beach.

http://curamap.com/index.php

About the following news site:

The reporters are interns from Fontys Hogeschool in Tilburg (The Netherlands) and the website is set up with the help of Radio Netherlands Worldwide and local radio station Dolfijn FM. When the interns leave again to Holland their jobs are taken over by new interns from the same school so it should remain fresh and forward thinking.


Translated

   
Research Team James Hogan asks cooperation
11-10-2009 22:36 | NEWS | Editors

hogan CURAÇAO - In connection with the disappearance case of James Hogan, vice-consul of the United States, the research team provided extensive information and ask for everyone's cooperation to resolve this matter.
The information in both text to read as a 10 minutes lasting Papiamento language television reports to see.

* On Thursday, September 24, 2009 around 20:30 James Hogan and his wife left a party. They are in their car, a Buick badge with Peacock S-65-44, to their home near Toni Kunchi driven.
     * Later that night around 23:00, James Hogan, dressed in blue jeans and a blue polo shirt, left his house. He wore New Balance sneakers of the brand. He said to his wife that he did make a detour and is left alone. Hogan makes frequent walks in the evening.
     * From his house he was using Kaya John Menge Rosaweg walked toward Santa. It is not known what route he has traveled that night. From his home there are three ways to come to Santa Rosaweg.
       1. Through Dr. Kaya. Oy Sprock. This road comes out at Santa Rosaweg where the 'trick di pan' (broodjeskar) Nancy is located. The possibility exists that someone has seen him in this place.
       2. By Cheche close to Santa Rosa. This road comes out on Santa Rosaweg amounting Amigo's terrace.
       3. Via Begoniaweg. This road comes out at sports Suvek. The possibility exists that he has gone through Perseusweg Santa Rosaweg direction.
     * Based on research it is assumed that James Hogan later that night, from Thursday to Friday after 24:00 near Bapor Kibra was. It is not known whether he has the car, another vehicle, on foot or on a lift Bapor Kibra came.
     * There is the possibility that someone has seen him Bapor Kibra or adjacent to Breezes on the road that leads to Bapor Kibra.
     * Friday night between 2:00 and 3:00 is a witness to a man seen walking towards Caracasbaaiweg Baya Beach. Judging from the description that the witness has given the possibility that it is James Hogan is not excluded.
     * On Friday, September 25, 2009 in the afternoon to witness evidence of the trousers, socks and shoes of James Hogan near Punta Caballero, which is opposite Barbara Beach, a blue rock found. This place is known as a diving spot. Interestingly, his shoes and his clothes neatly folded side were detected.
     * On the rocks are found traces of blood that ran into the sea. Later it is found that the blood comes from James Hogan.
     * In the vicinity of this place not long after other objects found at sea, few meters away from where his clothes lay his mobile phone and a few dozen meters away from the brand Zwilling Henkels chef's knife. This is a fairly expensive knife is probably not long in sea area.

The research team looking to answer the following questions:

     * Who is general information and information about the social life of James Hogan to give?
     * Who knows where James Hogan during his walks normally goes?
     * Who is James Hogan on the evening of September 24 near Toni Kunchi seen?
     * The research team is looking for people who Thursday, September 24 between 22:00 and Friday, September 25 24:00 Toni Kunchi nearby streets have been.
     * Who is James Hogan in the night of 24 on September 25 near Bapor Kibra Breezes or seen? Who knows what he did in the middle of the night?

James Hogan, the route of Toni Kunchi to Bapor Kibra could have walked. It is not possible that someone has given him a lift or it has used other means of transport. The research team is in contact with people that James Hogan on that route and have seen people that may have given a lift.

* Who has the night of Thursday, September 24 on Friday, September 25 near Caracas Bay / Baya Beach seen someone who looks like James Hogan and may give evidence?
     * The research team is in contact with the driver and / or co-driver of a two-door car from the BMW brand in the night of Friday, September 25th in Caracas the parking bay adjacent to Seahorse restaurant has visited?
     * The research team is in contact with people in the night of 24 on September 25 in the Bay Area between Caracas and Barbara Beach, popularly known in the Península di Caracas Bay called, have been, including those with the lady talking loudly was of cars and drivers in the night in that area were.
     * The research team also wants to come into contact with people who can give a chef's knife, which has an exclusive chef's knife or who knows who lost such a knife from Henckels Zwilling owns the brand?
     * Who has information that can help resolve this matter disappearance?

Telephones
The above questions are for people who have not entered into contact with the research team or for people who have had contact with the research team but have additional information. All information can be belangijk. If necessary, the information confidential.
You can provide information 24 hours a day through three different phone numbers: 8666-124, 911 and 108 via anonymous. Through the latter song your anonymity is guaranteed. If the line is busy, then the research team invites you kindly and urgently to try again later.

The above information is the research team portrayed in the following report language Papiamento.

http://www.versgeperst.com/nieuws/4302/onderzoeksteam-james-hogan-vraagt-medewerking.html#more-4302

Me too!    ::MonkeyEek:: ::MonkeyShocked::

One thing I can think of is that they told him to take off his clothes.  He was folding them to stall for time.  :smt102  ....or the police folded them to make it look like there was no struggle.....too bad about all the blood...would have looked like a suicide.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

The reports have said it was determined to be Hogan's blood.  Curacao must have the means to determine this.   Just thinking of dog's blood on mattress in Natalee's case vs. car interior which had to be sent away to determine chocolate & cleaning fluid.   

Wonder, if blood was present on clothing/shoes, if there were any prints....that is if the blood was on the clothing prior to folding and shoes neatly aligned.    ::MonkeyConfused::

That's a good possibility about stalling for time.

I see they are already floating a story that he liked gay bars and Latin American women.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

I'm wondering if your second thought is going to be closer to what the 'official' story will be.

That police folded his clothes, and it's going to be concluded that he took them off while feeling no threat - either with his gay lover or one of his Latina's.

That then things got out of control - jealous third party?  Or a murder suicide pact?  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Sadly, I see these people saying anything and everything but the truth - just like with Natalee's disappearance.

I sure hope Mr Hogan's family is going to get the US media involved soon!

One of the articles said items were sent to the NFI for testing - so I'm unclear on whose testing concluded it was his blood, NFI or local?

Great thoughts on any prints vs when the blood got on the clothes, 2NJ.

Thinking along the same lines regarding the rumors, I happened to focus on the mention of Breezes in one of Buckeye's posts and came across a map listing that resort and casinos within that area.  My curiosity was focused on what kind of party he and his wife attended on Thurs. 9/24 and the possibility that he had an interest in gambling.  This is not to say I want to create another 'rumor', but just wondered about it.  I would think the authorities would have checked out the party and guests, as well as the Hogan's preferred pasttimes, but I may have missed some things along the way.

It's easy to accept the possibility that someone may have seen Hogan on that first night during his 'walk', but it isn't as easy to accept he was seen walking around the following night, imo. 

It baffles me that this is not in our US media. 

A reception at the consulate from what I recall.  I wasn't sure about her attending also, but read recently that she did.

I'm baffled about it not being in the media too!   ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/world_news/us_diplomat_missing_in_curacao_2953325

US diplomat missing in Curacao

Updated: Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 4:50 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 4:50 PM EDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Investigators in Curacao are asking the public for help solving the disappearance of an American diplomat whose bloodied clothes were found last month on one of the Caribbean island's beaches.

A police-produced video broadcast over the weekend asks islanders to plug gaps in the last known movements of U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan, who vanished Sept. 24 after leaving home for one of his regular midnight walks. The 10-minute video also includes a request for information about the 49-year-old official's social life on the Dutch island.

"We want to know just what he does when he leaves the home," police spokesman Reggie Huggins said Monday. "We need to know if he has other friends maybe his family doesn't know about. We just want to know where he hangs out and what his social life is."

A trail of Hogan's blood was found on rocks leading to the water at Baya Beach, where his clothes were folded neatly in a pile, Huggins said. An expensive kitchen knife and Hogan's cell phone were found in the water just off the beach, popular for its water sports and its nightlife.

The broadcast included numbers for an anonymous hot line that Huggins said has generated some tips.

"We don't have a breakthrough yet," he said. Authorities are still considering "all possibilities" including suicide.

The missing man's brother, Paul Hogan, said the family would not comment out of concern for the privacy of James Hogan's wife and five children.

It was after 11 p.m. when Hogan, dressed in sneakers, blue jeans and a blue polo shirt, told his wife he was going for a walk and set out from their home outside the capital, Willemstad. Hogan often took late-night walks for an hour or two, according to Huggins.

Tips provided by islanders so far place Hogan in three different neighborhoods that night as late as 3 a.m.

The video asks for witnesses to come forward if they gave Hogan a ride or saw him walking one of the roads between those neighborhoods. In particular, it asks for information from the driver of a two-door BMW seen in one of the neighborhoods.

Hogan, who has legal residence in Florida, arrived in Curacao in August 2008 for a two-year assignment, according to U.S. State Department records.

Curacao lies about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Venezuela and is the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government. The U.S. stations military planes at the island's airport for multinational counter-drug missions in the Caribbean.

In the days after Hogan's disappearance, the local coast guard and the U.S. Navy scoured the shoreline. Missing-person fliers with Hogan's photo appeared in newspapers including those in Aruba, the nearby Dutch island where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway vanished in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

Copyright Associated Press, Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


 ::MonkeyNoNo:: 

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63702.php

Google translation:


Tips from TV program on U.S. vice consul


October 12, 2009, 14:28 (GMT -04:00)


PHILIPSBURG - After a television broadcast Saturday and repeated yesterday on a U.S. vice consul James Hogan gone through Tele Curaçao, new tips are received, says police officer Reggie Huggins today. He did not lose or tips related to include a chef's knife that investigators in Punta Caballero found at Barbara Beach.
 
Hogan was September 25th by his wife missing. After an initial police search in Kunchi Toni, moved the quest for the vice consul to Baya Beach and the Peninsula Caracas.

Clothes Americans were in fact found Punta Caballero. There were also blood stains on his clothes and in place. It was under investigation by the staff of the Dutch Forensic Institute Hogans his blood.

The Curaçao police Saturday in a special television broadcast asked the public for tips on missing American vice consul. The broadcast shows that much is unclear about where to go Hogan on September 24 when he went around eleven hours at night on foot left home.

It also became clear that kilometers far from his home in Punta Caballero, his pants and socks neatly folded and his shoes were found. It was reported the find in the water of one of the brand Zwilling Henckels chef's knife with blood stains on it. Also there was blood on the pants. The water was later found his mobile phone.

In recent weeks there in Curacao Hogan searched diligently for a special team, including employees of the FBI and the Department of Foreign Affairs involved. Netherlands supports the research but also military personnel of the Dutch Forensic Institute.

Through the television broadcast of Saturday which was repeated last night, calls the police, witnesses and old witnesses who have remembered more. The research team is interested in people such as Vice Consul foot would probably have seen or have seen getting into a car. Furthermore, the police come into contact with witnesses in the Hogan Caracasbaaiweg or Bapor Kibra the height of the Breezes Resort would have seen.

Furthermore, the police may contact the driver and occupants of a car from the BMW who stopped at the parking bay to Caracas at the level of the Seahorse restaurant. Police are looking for individuals who were in the peninsula, including one woman who said loudly.

Chef's knife lost
The police also calls people who make it a chef's knife from Henckels Zwilling have lost or know people who are in possession of that mark. The research team is finally interested individuals to have known that James Hogan and know where and with whom he is usually hanging out. Any witnesses should contact the Corps at the Curaçao Police Numbers 8666-124, 911 and 108 (anonymous).

Thanks to all that having bringing articles and information about this case.  There isn't much at all to be found in U.S. news.  Something is really fishy about this, and has been from the get go, imo.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Posted on Tuesday, 10.13.09
CURACAO
Help sought in case of missing U.S. diplomat
BY MIKE MELIA
Associated Press
SAN JUAN -- Investigators in Curacao are asking the public for help solving the disappearance of an American diplomat whose bloodied clothes were found last month on one of the Caribbean island's beaches.

A police-produced video broadcast over the weekend asked islanders to plug gaps in the last known movements of U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan, who vanished Sept. 24 after leaving home for one of his regular midnight walks. The 10-minute video also includes a request for information about the 49-year-old official's social life on the Dutch island.

``We want to know just what he does when he leaves the home,'' police spokesman Reggie Huggins said Monday. ``We need to know if he has other friends maybe his family doesn't know about. We just want to know where he hangs out and what his social life is.''

A trail of Hogan's blood was found on rocks leading to the water at Baya Beach, where his clothes were folded neatly in a pile, Huggins said. An expensive kitchen knife and Hogan's cell phone were found in the water just off the beach, popular for its water sports and its nightlife.

The broadcast included numbers for an anonymous hot line that Huggins said has generated some tips.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1279555.html

I agree MuffyBee; I wish I understood....what's up with that!   ::MonkeyNoNo::

self edit...  ::MonkeyWink::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Zdals52uU

http://www.youtube.com/v/61Zdals52uU&hl=en&fs=1&

telecuracao
October 14, 2009
(less info)

police is follow ask komunidat for juda in affair of the vise consel norteamerikano, james hogan with owing to desaparese 24 of september ultimo.polis is ask personan with was in the area with is drive one bmw and also one lady with was in the bisendario with was talk hard the night there for take contact with police.bosero reggienald huggins is tell with is much important solushona the affair here.

category: people & blogs tags: telenotisia telecuracao telekorsou curacao korsou curacao nieuws nieuws news telenieuws police affair hogan come across

Not really case related but I found this report interesting...haven't read it all yet.

http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/113917.pdf

United States Department of State
and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Office of Inspector General
Report of Inspection
Limited-Scope Inspection of
Consulate General Curaçao,
Netherlands Antilles
Report Number ISP-I-08-16, March 2008

The report was published a few months before Mr. Hogan arrived in Curacao; and the inspection was actually performed months before that. 

I think this is the actual archive video that some of the pictures/video of Mr. Hogan was taken from.  The timing is a bit off, but you can hear him speak also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z67wmRo0gs

US CONSULATE-BIAHA PA MERKA

http://www.youtube.com/v/3Z67wmRo0gs&hl=en&fs=1&

telecuracao

november 07, 2008

(less info) entrante 12 of january 2009 all person with want trip for usa for of paisnan with not have to of visa, as among another antilles dutch and aruba, have to ask outorisashon previo via dje sistema of esta. esta is stop for electronic system for travel authorization and esun with aplika have to fill several question p’e hana outorisashon. without this, the biahe for usa is become impossible owing to less k’e aplikante ask one visa and risibã this category: news & politics tags: telecuracao telenotisia curacao korsou news come across

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-334652

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I keep thinking about this post.  No confirmation that this is actually posted by one of Mr. Hogan's daughters; my thinking is that it probably is because of the details about the younger sister etc.

Why was there no mention AT ALL in the televised appeal to the public about the woman who was fired recently?  That is of course unless she drives a white BMW?  Unless they think she may have been the woman heard speaking "loudly" at the beach that night? 

It bothers me that they emphasize wanting information about his after hours friends etc., but don't request information about those who may have had it out for Mr. Hogan for any reason; and a recent firing in the same office would rate high in that respect IMO.

I find it very hard to believe that Mr. Hogan was actually seen in all the places that witnesses have reported seeing him.  How credible are these witnesses?  Can these sightings be verified by any other means such as security video?  I'm also wondering if tracker dogs were used in any of these areas to see if they hit on his scent in those areas.  Did they attempt to follow his footsteps from home with a tracker dog at all?  I don't know what specific search training the dogs had that were provided but I hope at least one of them was trained and used in that respect.  I hope that the basis of law enforcement placing him in that many areas was based on more than anonymous tips, because I believe it's very likely that those responsible for his disappearance could be attempting to lead the investigation on many wild goose chases. 

We've seen it before.

I believe it is very likely that whomever caused harm to Mr. Hogan knew his routine of the late night walks and where he took them.  Other than his family, those he worked with on a daily basis would have probably known about those walks too.  It would be interesting to know how much routine was involved in his walks...did he walk every night...on specific nights..or no real pattern to when he took them?  He and his wife attended a reception at the Consulate that Thursday (iirc) evening.  Were they being watched?  Did someone lay in wait for him to leave the security of his neighborhood on his own, abduct him, and then stage a crime scene that would leave room for all sorts of speculation?  IMO the knife that was shown in the police video is not one that someone just happens to have with them at any time.

I can't help but believe that if this had been a random act of robbery gone wrong, a crime of passion, or even as LE has suggested a suicide; his body would have been found.  There has been no mention of any remains being found.  So I also believe that the perpetrator of this crime either had help by means of a boat to take him away from the island; or has possibly disposed of or buried him away from the crime scene. 

I keep thinking over and over in my head...where there is no body, there is no crime.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

In the recent news several skeletal remains have been found on the island, some just laying out in the open on a hillside.  I hope to goodness that the search for Mr. Hogan has not been limited to the area where evidence was found!  I have seen no reports of searches anywhere else.

WHY, WHY, WHY, AREN'T ANY AMERICAN MEDIA DOWN THERE FOLLOWING THIS CASE?  ::MonkeyMad::

This is the post that gave the details about the younger sister, that I commented on in my prior post.  The comment is posted in response to other responses to the same article, by the same author, a few days later.


http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-334652


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http://bonairereporter.com/news/009pdfs/newcurrent.pdf

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Thanks texasmom.  There doesn't seem to be any new developments in Mr. Hogan's disappearance.  The comments section is very interesting.  I really feel for his family.   

I really feel for his family too MuffyBee, I hope there's news soon. 

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/mystery-deepens-over-us-vice-consul%E2%80%99s-disappearance

Comments to this article:

mahoman
30 September 2009 - 7:18am
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A striking similarity to the LETA CORDES disappearence in Sint Maarten last year except for the clothing...


Anonymous
3 October 2009 - 11:12pm
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The disappearance of Mr. James Hogan is very disheartening. I know his daughter, and she is one of the most sincere individuals that I know. I pray that authorities take the proper action and resources and carry this search out to the end. On a side note, the clothes appearing is too easy and obviously Mr. Hogan probably didnt go for a walk.

Anonymous

4 October 2009 - 12:17am
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I too know the family and they are all most wonderful folk including James Hogan himself. Genuine individuals of which the world has too few. There is obviously more to this story than meets the eye. All sorts of rumours going round, who knows what to believe. The discovery of his clothing together with the forensics matching his blood type to that which was found is all extremely disappointing as, in all honesty, the situation doesn't look good for James Hogan (and consequently his family).


Curacao
6 October 2009 - 1:37pm
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I am very sorry for the family Hogan at this time. I.m only very nervous to see what the reaction is going to be by the Americans and the U.S. media towards the Island and the islanders. Having read some of the posts and stories printed at this time around the web i fear we the antillians are going to villified again for the action of a single person or persons. For the authors info there are 7 FBI agents on the island working and assisting the local Police. It is also said that they found Mr. James mobile phone in sea. Please let it not become an media circus like the Holloway case but i fear we can't do anything about that now.

Stopping by to check for any updates.  Sad.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Thanks for all the updates here!  I hope his family gets some answers soon.

And where the he!! is the US media?!?!?!?!?

I have a hard time translating pdfs, but I think this says, nothing new, waiting for report from NFI.

http://www.antilliaansdagblad.com/images/stories/adnews/oktober/21-10-09/21100902.pdf

Thanks for the update Buckeye!   ::MonkeyAngel::

From Buckeye's link:

http://www.antilliaansdagblad.com/images/stories/adnews/oktober/21-10-09/21100902.pdf

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Google translation:

Police awaiting results Hogan

Enter one of our report's

PHILIPSBURG - Police spokesman Reginald 'Reggie' Huggins "Calling every day with the NFI (Dutch Forensic Institute, ed) for more information on the results of the forensic investigation in the case of The missing American service consul, James Hogan. To , without a conclusion. 
Police and OM, the results actually already last week within them, but The NFI says "more time to affect the study.

In the case of disappearance Hogan, who since September 24 is missing, has so far No breakthrough indication found. "But every little bit Information to help, "says Huggins. 'So we have a good number of tips received in of the population, which and we certainly do with them able to give a direction to the case. "

The police spokesman hopes that "the results of the forensic Research by the NFI more insight, so as to puzzle to complete.

Examines exactly what the NFI, Huggins can not tell. However, the spokesperson report that the chef's knife expensive brand Henckels Zwilling, that a few days after the disappearance in the water was found, has gone into the research. Further, even a cell phone, jeans with blood stains, socks and shoes found.  Whether these effects the vice-consul with it also taken in the forensic Research is one of these days clearly the results inside.

That is still a huge question for me too jen.

I was reading some about this the other day, and wondered if it had anything at all to do with the complete American media absence.

Maybe... maybe not?

http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/factFiles.php?id=114

It's been a month now, since Mr. Hogan's disappearance.

Over this month there has not been a single report by American Media on location in Curacao.

New information is very hard to find, or non existent.

WHY?

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

Is Mr. Hogan's family still in Curacao?  Are they o.k.?  Is his wife still a person of interest?

So many questions...   ::MonkeyConfused::

Is this his daughter?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Abby-Hogan/900645374

 :smt022

This is a bit gross.  Translated:

   
Sharks in Punta Kabayera
Yesterday, some fishermen alert beaten them a few days because a group of consecutive signal were sharks, more sharks than normal in this time of year. Nature Foundation and research Carmabi-mounted in Punta Kabayera, south east of Curacao, more sharks are seen. Marc Vermeij Carmabi of reports that it may be that the presence of more sharks to do with the disappearance of vice-consul Hogan in that neighborhood, but it is also possible that the sharks attracted by the vibrations that the construction of the pier of the Hyatt hotel cause.

http://www.persbureaucuracao.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1893:paradise-fm-middagnieuws-van-woensdag-21-oktober-2009&catid=49:paradise-fm-nieuws&Itemid=21

Abby Hogan
October 19th, 2009 at 9:35 am · Reply

If anyone has stories about my husband, my love of 24 years, I would love to hear them. This note was not passed along to us. I found this blog by chance. Old pix, stories, anything would be welcome, since I didn’t meet him until he was a LT and I was an ENS at HSL33. Jim is a great man, a devout Catholic, a devoted husband and father. I’ve never known another man like him.

http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/10/03/missing-man/

That's his wife, and that is a new picture.  It's been changed in the last day or two again.

Sorry, Abby is the wife.

 ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

That's sad.  So Paul Hogan, James Hogan's brother did not pass the information along to the family like he said he would after two weeks time?  How long does it take to drop an email with a link?   ::MonkeyConfused::

I'd come across the original post and response by Paul Hogan not long after he responded.  I didn't post it here because his response included his email address.  But I have seen it posted on another forum since then.  I'm glad you posted it Buckeye because I hadn't been back lately or seen Abby Hogan's response.

Thanks Buckeye, I hadn't seen this either.  Rather insensitive comment...  ::MonkeyNoNo::

With all the equipment and time spent in the area, it seems like they would have found his body if he was killed and put in the water.  Or that something would have washed ashore.  This is just very odd imo.  I'm just no so sure he was ever in the water, or not put in at that location.

I have no idea what's going on or what happened.  I do believe Abby's picture is of St. Brendan the Navigator.   :smt102  I'm guessing she thinks that the water is involved.

Maybe Curacao is blocking communications?

Thanks Buckeye!   ::MonkeyCool::

The change in this one's picture really made me sad...poor guy, I know he must be devastated.   ::MonkeyTears::

http://www.bondia.com/index.php?option=com_flippingbook&book_id=2

10/27/2009 Bondia Aruba Page 21

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Have they named a new vice consul?  Just an oversight?   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Is all of this development in the same area? 

Someone please tell me it's not, or if it is...that it couldn't possibly have anything to do with this case soon becoming a distant memory.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63755.php

Google translation:

Green light for Oasis Puerto

October 13, 2009, 14:29 (GMT -04:00)

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The project of Puerto Oasis from top as it should look like. From left to right is the Caracasbaaiweg.

PHILIPSBURG - The government approves Puerto Oasis, a luxury hotel and condominiumproject on the west side of the Spanish Water. According to Deputy Anthony Godett (Infrastructure, FOL) is a project of 90 million U.S. dollars.

The project comes at an area of 70,000 square meter at the end of the old-Caracasbaaiweg between January and Thiel Brakkeput Abou. A spa and marina project give the allure. A lighthouse, the boats are easy to find the way.

Site preparation has started the site. "We have kept quiet so as not to get back into the same problems as in Phase 2 on the Reef in Otrobanda" Godett said, referring to the rejection of the Venezuelan company Cayco as an investor.

Oasis Puerto investors know by the commissioner from the Netherlands, Venezuela and the United States. In the Chamber of Commerce are the Venezuelan Eduardo Rojas and Dutchman Michael Kaspers registered as director.

24 buildings include studios, apartments and penthouses, ranging in size. The project is being built in oval shape, with a range of a 200 meter long swimming pools are areas where water cascades from one pool to another link. On both sides of the pools are two artificial beaches.
Interested investors can buy a shelter. Rental and maintenance are done by the hotel. The owners receive rental income from their investment. They are taking themselves entitled to a stay of ninety days annually in their homes.


http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_64383.php

Google translation:

Focus on cruise CPA town Caracas Bay Peninsula

October 28, 2009, 14:03 (GMT -04:00)

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Sketch of the cruise village from the annual report of CPA. The monuments are by Royal Caribbean focal points, but are almost gone in the drawing between the modern buildings.

PHILIPSBURG - Vision and dreams about the future of the ports on the island. The annual report of Curaçao Ports Authority only shows beautiful years figures which the Port Authority wants to go. This particularly about Caracas Bay Cruise Village.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the second largest cruise company in the world, has a development plan for the peninsula of Caracas Bay drafted. The field should transform into a tourist and residential area. The existing piers to moor vessels of any size.
The company will of the cruise village "a destination to make cruise where tourists come throughout the year. It uses the vision that RCCL destinations in the area beyond to develop cruise terminals varied sustainable places for both cruise and stay tourists. The company participates in this himself along.

The plans include a five-and four-star resort, a Ecoresort and a marina with associated activities such as shops, restaurants and entertainment. The monuments Fort Beekenburg quarantine the building and keep their distinctive functions and the conservation area on the peninsula, according to Royal Caribbean intact.

CPA-chairman Alexis Daou goes into the annual report explicitly on the development vision of Caracas Bay: "We see this development as an opportunity for us to rise to new economic heights. A unique opportunity that we should not miss. "It goes by the CEO not only to attract more cruise passengers or income tax. "If we as a country, this project can get off the ground we change the whole concept of cruise tourism in Curaçao." In this vision, the cruise tourism can develop in such a way that it can grow to economic pillar by itself (as was done in St. Maarten the case, red). "This development goes far beyond what we currently can only achieve with visiting cruise ships. We must seize this opportunity before others do. "

Skeptics
The CPA-directors Richard Lopez Ramirez and Agustin Diaz go deeper into the consequences of the widening of the Panama Canal and the opportunities it can bring to the island in conjunction with the vision of Caracas Bay Peninsula. Worldwide the trend is that vessels grow in size. Tankers, cargo ships, but cruise ships. With the completion of the new Panama Canal in 2014, receives a direct impact on Curaçao.

"Skeptics are the plans in question. Proponents of a cruise pier elsewhere on the island will feel threatened, but this is not about half mega pier. Ideally we want third and even fourth and fifth cruise pier. But we are not able to get around this financially. The current cruise terminal the next ten years will not generate money. "

The development vision is about the island "in the top cruise destinations in the world with the help of powerful partners strongly believe in our product and expect to invest. The supervisor makes an urgent call for government support, local developers and tourist organizations. "A vision is a dream with a deadline. We must seize the opportunity now to not miss the boat. "
 

Higher profits
The CPA Group last year posted a turnover of 64 million guilders and put it on growth. "This result is by no coincidence," says CEO Alexis Daou. "It is the result of strategic decisions and hard work of my predecessors, administration and management of the CPA."
CPA put themselves last year to 67 million and was to cost 50 million. Net profit after tax amounted to 11.7 million guilders, more than 4 million more than in 2007. The turnover was 54 million guilders in 2007, but the cost of 42.8 million were also significantly lower than last year.

http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/james-hogan-missing-now-for-31-days.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009

James Hogan: Missing Now for 31 Days

US Vice Consul James Hogan was reported missing by his wife on September 25 in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. Today marks a month since he went missing. There seems to be no new developments on the search conducted by local authorities in the islands. *I unearthed the video below from YouTube (sorry, no translation available) and another one here*, both talking about the search and the police’s effort in soliciting the public’s assistance in their search. It includes snippets of James Hogan on video.


Digger of Life After Jerusalem pointed out recently that James Hogan just made the promotion from FS-04 to FS-03. The promotion list was dated October 9.


An AP report dated Oct 12, 2009 cited James Hogan’s brother, Paul saying that the family would not comment out of concern for the privacy of the diplomat’s wife and his five children.



On October 18, FS blogger, Globetrotter came back from a three-week TDY in Curacao. He understandably does not have a lot to say except that “It has been an interesting experience, but a difficult one under the circumstances. I'm glad for the opportunity to serve and help out at a trying time.”




This is such a gut-wrenching occasion, I can't even begin to imagine what this must be like to the family and the small community at the US Consulate General in Curacao. What makes me feel really bad is how his disappearance seems to have fallen off the face of the earth just like that ... no more news coverage updating us on the search ...



Related Posts:
US Diplomat James Hogan: 19 Days Missing
DNA Match in James Hogan Search
US Diplomat Missing in Curacao


1 COMMENTS:

 Lee said...
I absolutely agree. I was in A100 with Jim and he was a terrific guy, probably the nicest in our group. I am just sick that there is no media attention, no apparent department attention, and clearly no AFSA attention. Its just awful.

OCTOBER 27, 2009 1:49 AM



*The videos referenced are the same ones that have already been posted on prior pages.

http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/10/03/missing-man/

snip

Rett Rasmussen
October 25th, 2009 at 1:24 pm · Reply
Dear Abby:

I am the USNA Class of 1982 Corresponding Secretary. I write our class column for the Shipmate alumni magazine. I am so very saddened with Jim’s loss and my prayers are with you and your family. Would you like me to pass along to our classmates any particular words about Jim’s life and his passing? Please email me at rett@rasmussen.biz.
My deepest condolences, Rett Rasmussen



Paul Hogan
October 26th, 2009 at 4:35 am · Reply
Unfortunately, Abby is mistaken. She was incommunicado at the time, and very distraught, and the story was sent to two of her adult children with her on Curacoa that same day I posted. If they were unable to pass it on, I’m sure there were many more important issues to deal with at the time. We appreciate all the thoughts and prayers from the Class of 1982. Best wishes, Paul

Lot's of suspicious things about this case, imo.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

I agree MuffyBee.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_64783.php

Google translation:

Great start of criminal and drug-money laundering organization

November 6, 2009, 13:11 (GMT -04:00)

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PHILIPSBURG - The big criminal case to an international gang who dealt in drugs and in money laundering was launched today. In April this year the organization rolled. In total, 18 suspects, of Lebanese, Antillean, Surinamese, Cuban, Colombian and Venezuelan descent, to court.

The case is spread over four days. Today was the first four suspects turn. Small fish, given their share, but they themselves are guilty of criminal offenses.

Against the 26-year-old Valerie E. 4 years was required. She had several times large sums of money to couriers brought at the request of her friend and co-defendant Quincy P.

Also against women Sabrina V. (23) and Dygisma W. (36) was four years required for their share in the drug trade. W. denied a parcel with 9 pounds of cocaine into the Netherlands have sent. V. knew her role well. They dealde especially sofdrugs and became involved in the trade by her boyfriend.

Against the 35-year Glennil C. 3 years was required. He had two firearms, an Uzi and a shotgun, with ammunition for his nephew kept. Then on April 28 was arrested. Glennil firearms anywhere else tried to incorporate them. He was arrested on the street. All four suspects this morning had a clean police record.

At 13, 18 and November 20 are respectively four and five suspects in court. The last two days are reserved for the 'heaviest' suspects. International cooperation between the police and courts of Curacao, Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States on April 28 led to the collapse of the case. The organization is probably responsible for the import and export of at least 2000 kilograms of cocaine per year.

The Organized Crime Division of the KPC started in early 2008 with a criminal investigation into the organization. These would be responsible for the importation of cocaine and Ecstasy with fast speedboats (go-fast) and cargo from Colombia through Venezuela to Curacao. Containers with cocaine are from Curacao to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Jordan have shipped.

Venezuela went from drug containers to West Africa and then to the Netherlands, Lebanon and Spain. Airline passengers as couriers smuggled cocaine from Curacao and Aruba to the Netherlands. This route was also the drugs hidden in cargo. Conversely, the organization smuggled hashish from the Netherlands to Curaçao. Cash Couriers brought the cash proceeds of drug trafficking from Curacao to Venezuela. On Curaçao the organization was also involved in local trade in firearms and ammunition, said the Public Ministry in April.

The suspected drug profits invested in real estate in Colombia, Venezuela, Lebanon, the Dominican Republic and in companies in Curaçao. The organization maintained contacts with other international criminal networks, which in the Middle East Hezbollah financially support the organization. Large sums of money from drug trafficking by underground banking became available in Lebanon. Possibly this was money used to finance terrorist organizations. From Lebanon are also placed orders for large quantities of weapons by drug organizations from South America to be delivered. But actual arms shipments until the time of the arrests no.

During the study, of 551 parties and 408 kilos of cocaine coming from Colombia through Venezuela to Curacao with go-fast were brought intercepted. The Hato airports and Schiphol in several occasions couriers and parcels with a total of 16 kilos of cocaine intercepted. Furthermore, while research on sea containers of cocaine seized in Antwerp (145 pounds), Valencia (20 pounds), Cartagena (22.5 kilos) and Rotterdam (300 pounds).

http://parlis.nl/kvr38028

Google translation:

Questions from the member Brinkman (PVV) to the Secretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations about the message "U.S. diplomat in Curacao without trace". (Submitted October 6, 2009); Answer

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File KVR38028
Contents Indication

Why are five agents of the FBI as research and has not flown to the Netherlands to crime investigations missing diplomat in charge?

Category (s) Constitutional and Administrative Law
Criminal law and criminal procedure
 
Reply with reference Kamervragen 2009-2010, No 369, Lower House
Date 22/10/2009
Date of filing 06/10/2009
Comment Date 15/10/2009
Size 1
Vraagnr. by submitting 2009Z18084
Petitioner Brinkman (PVV)
 
Index 369
Questions from the member Brinkman (PVV)the State of Interior and Kingdom Relations about the message "U.S. Diplomat Curacao trace ". (Submitted October 6 2009)
1
Are you aware of the message "U.S. Diplomat Curacao trace "?
1
2
Is it true that five U.S. agents of the FBI as Research leaders have flown?
3
If so, on what legal basis these five agents in charge of a study on the territory of the Kingdom of Netherlands?
4
Do you share the view that the Netherlands leaders for this crime investigations should provide and that the FBI well this could assist?

If so, how are you making?
5
How shall Netherlands, alongside the Dutch Forensic Institute, currently assisting in this investigation? Is there a need for more assistance?
1
www.telegraaf.nl, October 4, 2009.

Answer
Answer of State
Bijleveld-Schouten (Home
Interior and Kingdom Relations)
(received October 15, 2009)
1
Yes.
2 to 4
There is almost immediately after it was that the Vice Consul of the United States Curacao went missing, a Massive Investigation Team (TGO) established under the overall control of the Attorney General of the Netherlands Antilles. There is a team composed of officials of the Police Corps Curacaoenhet Criminal Investigation Team who work in a twinning relationship.

The research pipeline is very strongly in the Police Corps Curacao and Research Team ????Collaboration. There are an agent of the moment FBI and an agent of the As (US?) State Department liaison officers the research team added.

These officers are fully informed by the research leadership, and maintain contacts with the staff of the American consulate Curacao.
5
Dutch Forensic Institute has provided support in the TGO-structure in the form of forensic expertise. Within 24 hours after .

http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/james-hogan-missing-now-for-31-days.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009

James Hogan: Missing Now for 31 Days

US Vice Consul James Hogan was reported missing by his wife on September 25 in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. Today marks a month since he went missing. There seems to be no new developments on the search conducted by local authorities in the islands. I unearthed the video below from YouTube (sorry, no translation available) and another one here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1y5UDbnKj4 both talking about the search and the police’s effort in soliciting the public’s assistance in their search. It includes snippets of James Hogan on video.

Same one we have posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmo9mucJzs

Digger of Life After Jerusalem pointed out recently that James Hogan just made the promotion from FS-04 to FS-03. The promotion list was dated October 9.


An AP report dated Oct 12, 2009 cited James Hogan’s brother, Paul saying that the family would not comment out of concern for the privacy of the diplomat’s wife and his five children.



On October 18, FS blogger, Globetrotter came back from a three-week TDY in Curacao. He understandably does not have a lot to say except that “It has been an interesting experience, but a difficult one under the circumstances. I'm glad for the opportunity to serve and help out at a trying time.”


This is such a gut-wrenching occasion, I can't even begin to imagine what this must be like to the family and the small community at the US Consulate General in Curacao. What makes me feel really bad is how his disappearance seems to have fallen off the face of the earth just like that ... no more news coverage updating us on the search ...



Related Posts:
US Diplomat James Hogan: 19 Days Missing
DNA Match in James Hogan Search
US Diplomat Missing in Curacao




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 Lee said...
I absolutely agree. I was in A100 with Jim and he was a terrific guy, probably the nicest in our group. I am just sick that there is no media attention, no apparent department attention, and clearly no AFSA attention. Its just awful.

OCTOBER 27, 2009 1:49 AM

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http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2009/11/vice-consul-james-hogan-1440-hours.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Vice Consul James Hogan: 1,440 Hours Missing

US Vice Consul James Edward Hogan disappeared on the night of September 24. He was reported missing by his wife, the following day. As of today, he has been missing for 60 days with no new report on the development of the search in the Netherlands Antilles. He has now been missing for 1,440 hours.


It seems like the only site that still continues to track news of his disappearance is the Scared Monkeys Missing Persons Site.



The State Department addressed the disappearance of Mr. Hogan, from best I could tell, on three occasions during the Daily Press Brief in October.


Daily Press Briefing - October 1

Daily Press Briefing - October 2

Daily Press Briefing - October 5



An email inquiry sent to Timothy J. Dunn, the Chief of Mission/Consul General at the US Consulate General in Curacao has not been returned. Nothing on its website indicates that one of its three officers has gone missing or that there is a search going on.

In contrast, when US Defense Attaché, Thomas Mooney disappeared from the US Embassy in Cyprus on June 28, 2007, the U.S. Embassy there issued a public appeal for information on the whereabouts of Colonel Mooney. The NYT reported that “an announcement posted on the embassy’s Web site urged anyone with information “which might be helpful in locating him” to contact the police.”

And at the sad conclusion of LTC Thomas Mooney’s disappearance, then Ambassador Ronald Schlicher released an official statement also posted on its embassy’s website.


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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Coldcasefiles.jpg)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2009

James Hogan: Now a Cold Case?

AP reported a few days ago that the police spokesman in Curacao acknowledged that they have no new leads on the disappearance of Vice Consul James Hogan who was reported missing by his wife on September 25 in the Netherlands Antilles. Investigators are reportedly considering all possibilities. The report also states that a State Department spokesman Darby Holladay declined to comment on this matter. The Background Note for the Netherland Antilles even in the redesigned website of State.gov still has James E. Hogan listed as one of the three principal US officials in the country.

I can’t imagine what this must be like for his wife and children, most especially during the holidays. Our thought and prayers for the family. May they find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy help burn out the pain of his absence.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gH_Ebn3Z80d0mZh7qmEDDvZaCNIwD9CN8F8G5

Curacao: Case of missing US diplomat going cold

(AP) – Dec 20, 2009

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Curacao detectives are still trying to solve the disappearance of a U.S. diplomat whose bloodied clothes were found nearly three months ago on a rocky beach, a police official said Sunday.

Police spokesman Alfred Suarez says the missing-person case remains open. But he says that there have been no new leads since police broadcast a video in October asking islanders for more information on the last known whereabouts of U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan.

The 49-year-old American official vanished Sept. 24 after leaving his Curacao home for one of his regular late-night walks.

Police said a trail of Hogan's blood was found on rocks leading to the water at Baya Beach, where his clothes were folded neatly. An expensive kitchen knife and Hogan's cell phone were found in the water just off the beach.

Curacao investigators have said they are considering all possibilities, including suicide.

In the days after Hogan's disappearance, the local coast guard and the U.S. Navy scoured the shoreline. Newspapers published missing-person fliers with Hogan's photo.

U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay declined to comment Sunday.

Hogan, a Florida resident, arrived in Curacao in August 2008 for a two-year assignment. The Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela is the seat of the Netherlands Antilles government.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

He did not commit suicide!  JMO   ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad::

http://missingexploited.com/2007/07/01/thomas-mooney-45-american-diplomat-us-defense-attache-missing-in-cyprus/

Interesting similarities to this case.  Read the comments from those that knew Thomas Mooney.

More about Thomas Mooney:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_K._Mooney

I meant to add, thank goodness Thomas Mooney's body was found so he could be given a proper burial, and his family does not have to wonder where he is.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

? ::MonkeyConfused::

(http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6197.0;attach=11775;image)

I promise it showed a broken link before I posted it again!   ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyHaHa::

A drawing/carving in the stone? 

Is it Jesus?  ::MonkeyEek::

It could be a drawing of him I guess.  What I see looks like the profile of someone in a robe like Jesus is seen in drawings...or a priest or saint maybe.  I had to stop looking at the blown up picture I was seeing eyes and faces all over that stone! 

 ::MonkeyEek:: ::MonkeyHaHa::

I'd read a few articles about the so called "death list" over the past month, but didn't think to bring them over here.  I came across this one today, don't know if it might apply to this case or not but found it interesting.

http://www.rnw.nl/nl/caribiana/article/incidenten-ontsieren-verkiezingsstrijd-cura%C3%A7ao

Google translation:

Incidents mar election Curacao

Published: December 15, 2009 - 4:48 pm | by Editor Caribiana

Read more about: Gerrit Schotte Lista pa Kambio Omayra Leeflang PAR election

Some bizarre incidents mar the election campaign in Curaçao. For instance, a prominent politician Tuesday morning (local time) announced that his dogs were poisoned. Monday was a minister has declared a death threat to its employees.

The Antilles vote on January 22 next year for the States, the Antillean parliament. Curaçao has a tradition of fierce election campaign, it seldom violence played a role.

Former commissioner Gerrit Schotte of the largest opposition party Lista pa Kambio which one of the most remarkable and extensive campaigns, was struck Tuesday morning. He reported a local
radio station that his two Rottweilers that morning lay dead in his garden. He assumes that they are poisoned by political opponents. Autopsy is performed on the animals.

Minister Omayra Leeflang (Education and Health) of PAR ruling party on Monday reported a threat to some of her advisers, according to an anonymous informant
a dead list. The case concerns a dispute between the minister and a local university on the recognition of qualifications.

(Reuters)

Could it be a blood stain?

http://www.tiwy.com/news.phtml?id=151
 January 8, 2010
The US Drug War, or the Curacao Contact

Nil Nikandrov - http://en.fondsk.ru

Vice Council of the US Consulate General Curacao James Edward Hogan left his home on foot late at night on September 24, 2009 for one of his regular walks. Used to them, his wife reported him missing only the next morning. Search for Hogan, initialy conducted by the US Consulate staff and intelligence agents, began without much publicity. The local authorities were notified only when Hogan's clothes covered with blood were found.

The incident became widely known shortly thereafter. Local media floated various stories including Hogan's leaving his wife for another woman, imitating his own death to let his wife get the life insurance payment, or being killed as an act of revenge by the drug mafia with which he allegedly had ties. Gradually the drug-related version grew dominant. The media discovered that Hogan had worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and had served as a trade representative in Africa after receiving additional training. It appeared that - as an operative - he indeed dealt with drug-trafficking groups. If he was dead, who could have killed him and why?

Scrupulous journalists invoked a recent raid against a drug cartel which supplied cocaine from Colombia to the US, Middle East, Holland, Belgium, and Denmark. The major operation had been carried out last April by DEA in Curacao and Aruba with the help of the local police. The 17 people arrested in the case were Colombians, Surinamese, Curacao and Aruba natives, Venezuelans, and Cubans. As usual, DEA supplied no details concerning the Venezuelan and Cuban members of the group, thus creating a pretext for a media campaign charging Havana and Caracas with involvement in drug trafficking.
Moreover, 4 individuals from Lebanon had also been arrested during the raid, which made it possible for the media to pick up the version that Hezbollah terrorists were getting drugs from their Venezuelan partners. DEA has tried for a decade but failed to discover any links between Venezuela and Hezbollah's drug groups, but no doubt new propaganda campaigns targeting Venezuela are in the making. Some elements of the fictional scenario – allegations that speed motorboats delivered cocaine from Venezuela to Curacao - have already been leaked to the media. Motorboats carrying drugs from South America to the Caribbean Islands are a reality, but the truth is that they are registered in Colombia. DEA is known to greenlight the drug trafficking under its own control while suppressing the competition in the business highly profitable for the US (and DEA), which is posed by “unaffiliated” players. US agencies treat Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire as their own backyard. For DEA, Hollywood-style episodes with bad cops putting drugs into the pockets of innocent people, etc. are routine practice. Not surprisingly, some Latin American countries are deporting DEA operatives and refusing to cooperate with the US agency.
The US SOUTHCOM maintains the so-called Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) on Curacao and Aruba. They are equipped with advanced air and naval surveillance facilities and the electronic equipment capable of intercepting all types of communications. As a result, the islands are closely watched and the existence of “independent” criminal groups on them is absolutely impossible. Seaports, airfields, banking, the real estate sector, administration, and diplomatic missions on Curacao and Aruba are defenseless against the US monitoring and heavily infiltrated by Washington's agents. The only surviving drug groups in Curacao are those used by DEA in its strategic games. Obviously, DEA planed the recent raid against a Curacao drug group as a major provocation against Venezuela, but the operation collapsed as no real Chavez's envoys or Hezbollah terrorists were caught. Then the story about individuals from Lebanon coming to Curacao was invented – if you are ready to believe that anyone from Lebanon is a Hezbollah member, they must have been drug traffickers and terrorists.

One might say the fabrication is too naive for DEA, the CIA, or any other US agencies, but they are facing stiff inter-departmental competition and are under pressure to churn out results to justify their enormous budgets. As a result, almost any “information” is regarded as usable. While DEA is saying that Venezuela and Ecuador are among the leading drug producers, Latin America's number one drug factory supplying plastic-packaged narcotics to all parts of the world is Colombia. The country's extensive drug network employs its own financial centers, carefully maintained routes, corrupt officers at customs checkpoints and in police forces, etc. This activity would have been impossible without the help of DEA, the secret agency with its own logistics and system of analysis.
Videos showing thousands of confiscated packages containing cocaine are regularly featured on Venezuelan TV channels. The country's law enforcement agencies became a lot more efficient since the expulsion of DEA. Currently they are uprooting the drug network DEA had been cultivating for years both to earn money and to compromise Chavez and his regime. When Venezuela opposed the Honduran coup and made efforts to reinstate the country's legitimate President Jose Manuel Zelaya, Washington claimed Chavez was keenly interested in Honduras as an intermediate base for supplying drugs to Mexico and the US. A typical case of blame-shifting!

Zelaya was the first Honduran President who was not a total US puppet. His predecessors readily and profitably cooperated with DEA. The independent Zelaya who re-emerged as a populist leader ruined the plans of the US super-cartel which had turned Honduras into its base in Central America. The Honduran drug chronicles illustrate the proportions of the “commercial” aspect of DEA activity. Crushes or interceptions of planes loaded with drugs are reported nearly every week. Speed motorboats registered in Honduran seaports deliver cocaine and heroine to Mexico and the US East Coast, and only a fraction of the traffic – that with no ties to DEA – gets intercepted.
DEA made a crucial contribution to the coup in Honduras as the majority of the country's army command used to be on its payroll. Much to the displeasure of DEA, Zelaya planned to purge the corrupt officers corps. The November, 29 “election” of Porfirio Lobo Sosa as the President of Honduras coincided in time with the assassination of Gen. Julian Aristides Gonzalez, director general of the National Office for Combating Drug Trafficking, by two gunmen riding motorcycles in Tegucigalpa. Reportedly, Gonzalez was going to write a book about his transactions with DEA and had a lot to tell about its ties with the Honduran cartels.

No doubt, Colombia is the leader in drug production. Bolivian President Evo Morales said recently that the US deliberately reiforces the negative processes in Colombia such as the escalation of its domestic armed conflict, the surge of the paramilitary movements, and the expansion of drug groups to justify its continued presence in the country and to use it as a foothold in the struggle against the region's populist regimes.

Destructive processes are gaining momentum in Mexico, also with a major contribution from DEA. The drug war with a death toll higher than that of the US in Afghanistan is the coutry's permanent condition. It took over 9,000 lives in 2009, many of those killed being police officers and army servicemen. The confrontation in Mexico is unbelievably ferrocious. Beheaded and mutilated corpses in plastic bags are found in its cities daily. Drug cartels are not only fighting for control over Mexico's regions but also over parts of the neighboring Guatemala. One of America's top undercover agents Michael Levine retired from DEA in 1989 after 25 years of service. Disillusioned, he authored Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War, in which he stated that the US war against drugs is essentialy a pretext for covert operations abroad. Levine took part in a number of operations that could be crowned with arrests of the key figures of the drug business underworld, but every time his superiors told to leave them at large. He faced threats from DEA seniors when he attempted to reveal facts compromising the agency.

The current situation in DEA is even more sinister than it used to be in the 1980ies. In the situation of the unprecedented financial crisis the drug business rose from the tactic to the strategic level. The annual drug business revenue ranges from $700 bn to $1 trilion, which is comparable to the revenues generated by all oil companies.

Chances are slim that James Edward Hogan is alive. One of his operative contacts unexpectedly called him the night he went missing, and his mobile phone was found later in the water near the place where he supposedly had been killed. It is possible that, as it had happened before on Curacao, the assasination was an act of revenge perpetrated by the members of the cartel who had evaded arrest. Tens of FBI, CIA, and DEA operatives continue to investigate Hogan's disappearance. Whatever happens, the struggle over dominance over the drug markets will go on.

I live now for 28 years on Curacao. A lot of things happening here and most citizen are a part of a large underworld. Mr. Hogan is killed by people who know by the FBI and CIA. He was in a investigation about the criminal world on this island. Child porn, drugs, gamble houses and weapons are normal things on this island. People come and go and there are a lot who ending on the bottom of our blue sea. With some wires and stones around them as food for the fish! Other will killed openly in their cars or at home. People who know too much. Even our local government, police and judges knows more! All this under the Dutch flag who are within this mess. They know where it comes from but can not talk. 

Mr Hogan knows too much. Most information was on a memory stick, they needed back because it pointed to too important people.

He was not the first and will be the last. See mister Claude Whatey, Mister Comproe Who ended the same way. If my life is longer safe? No, because they threaten me also and its a matter of time.
Good luck you all... 


 

That is a lot going wrong on one little island..

Who is the power group ?

Is it Dutch Nationals ? or Clombian or Russian Mafia ?

Who is everyone afraid of ?

The power groups are different.
One are Israeli but also the Dutch, Colombian and Italian.
All covered by the system.

Welcome and thanks for the information.  Not surprising.  I suspect all of the ABC islands have similar corruption.

Sorry I did not answered all;

Afraid of: Are the big people behind that, People who knows the FBI, CIA and all intelligences.
People who make the world, people who are brake or put you on top if you know what I mean.
If I put their name here for sure you will never find me again.

The corruption is terrible here on these islands and a few years ago I started a group where people can place the corruption they know. Its incredible what is going on here under the dutch flag. Weekly I write the Dutch government and talk with insiders and the only thing they tell me. Keep away from this. You will ending 300 feet deep in our sea!

Mr Hogan know what and who was behind a few cases and so he ended in nothing.
Because all cases lead to almost one place and that will amaze everybody when maybe this comes ones a time out.
Dutch persons like mr van Gogh mr. Fortuyn are also victim of this organization.

I think all of this info is relative..
It is relative to Amy Bradley.
It is relative to Natalee Holloway.
It is relative to James Hogan.

Just telling us the Israeli raises the hair on my neck..
They have not been mentioned at all in the Natalee case ..
 But my research shows they are involved in south America and now I can see that the Dutch are intertwined with them.
Israel... is infiltrated by the R.M.

" all cases lead to almost one place "


We have been looking for this place.. It is the place of answers..
It is the place that the people of responsibility and truth resides at..

BUT In a world that we own today we may never find it.

Along those lines.....

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35183

Mystery Surrounds Alleged Hezbollah Links to Drug Arrests in Curacao
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 18
June 25, 2009 04:34 PM Age: 224 days
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Military/Security, Middle East
By: Chris Zambelis

Mystery continues to surround Hezbollah’s alleged links to the seventeen suspects arrested on drug trafficking charges on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao on April 28.  According to Curacaon authorities, approximately 250 law enforcement officials took down a major drug trafficking and money laundering ring led by a criminal network that shipped and sold cocaine and other contraband from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe and the Middle East.  In a significant twist, Curacaon authorities announced that the suspects had ties to international organized crime networks linked to Hezbollah in Lebanon; the suspects are accused of, among other things, having funneled part of their proceeds to Hezbollah through informal banking mechanisms (St. Maarten Island Times, May 2; Netherlands Info Services News, April 30; AP, April 29). Four Lebanese nationals were among those arrested in addition to an unspecified number of Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Curacaons, and Surinamese (St. Maarten Island Times, May 2; NIS News, April 30).  Curacaon authorities reported that officials from the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States aided in the investigation (St. Maarten Island Times, May 2; NIS News, April 30).   

(snipped)

Note was already posted  in this thread by Texasmom

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=6197.msg977616#msg977616

Isn't that astounding ?
Even though that happened back in 2009.. Public knowledge and concern is little or none..

When ever it was considered that Natalee could have been handed off to others.
These are the kind of groups that have the power to hide a human.
Amy Bradley is proof enough of that for me.

The F.B.I. drug there feet to even look into Margarita island.. That says a lot
Then there web site showing some drawing of a possible Amy instead of the photos.. Gee Whiz

They are all in cahoots..

If you have been writing the Dutch every week and you have started a group, my guess is that the "big people" already know who you are.  The internet can be a formidable opponent.  Perhaps you should post your info before you don't have a chance.

Big people know me. Big people watch me and big people threaten me. You read in the beginning of a woman called Leeflang and a dead list, see took me in there political journey because I wrote a book about children porn and  children distress. That list is there and one by one people will be solved in the world of nothing. But she a small one in the row. The big fishes are in Europe and the United states other countries are only a pawn of these superpowers.

Posting here the real organization will the end of my life. I will give you in the future hints.

Blaming the Big Bad US and/or US families seems to be an island mantra.

I am not interested in riddles or hints.  Propaganda is propaganda.  There was enough concerning Aruba.  If you have true names or situations I will follow, otherwise I'm not interested.  Others might be.

God bless James Hogan and his family.

Thanks Buckeye, I totally agree!   ::MonkeyCool::

I appriciate your concerns.. I thank you for the heads up in telling us anything at all.
I do not want you to post anything that may get you hurt.
We do not have the ability in this forum for you to send me an email or an instant message.
So I guess I can't ask you for the name of your book as that will give your identity away.
Most of us are very well versed on Aruba and have been doing research on the missing person Natalee Holloway since june 1 2005.
What has happened in that situation over time has convinced many of us that there is in fact super type powers behind hiding the facts surrounding her disapperance.
We also have been infiltrated over the years with people claiming to know things and they fed us with fictitious information and guessing games. They claim the same as you and a secret society, false information to confuse and disrupt the forum.
Those 2 inviduals posted under the names of Shango and Simian and you will find much info on them here on this Forum. Others were murdered as well.
The main suspects are free today with no charges against them..

I do have one question for you though ..
Do you think it was possible that Natalee Holloway was taken off the island of Aruba Alive ? If so where do you think she ended up ?

Baseltje - just a suggestion, if you are worried about your safety and what you can or cannot say, I suggest in the future you use a less easy to trace nickname.  Just saying.

So you people are angry. That they can trace my nickname is a old issue. This nickname is on the complete net and people know my real name. I'm not afraid to give my real name because I wrote several books about these matters under my real name so.

About Natalee, she is alive that's for sure and this all was a insurance issue. She was spotted on several locations but she must be playing dead because millions are on her head. We got several local people (included police) who saw her bring to that mystery plain but these people are not important for the FBI or other investigators. The main suspect mr vd Sloot is for our local  judiciary, for a along time ago no suspect more! Our judiciary works differently as that from the States. It looks like you do not get it!

She alive thats for sure. Or better written she went alive from Aruba.

My books are in dutch and called "Moderne slaverny in het systeem" "Help de Antillen verzuipen" "World of positive energy" and "Geboren voor een cent". So you know now my name.

For the rest If you do not believe in a intelligents in intelligents its okay but in all the cases I represent on these islands we have the prove that there is such. So the prove has mr. Hogan mr Komproe, mr. Whatey and others who now are dead.

Its up to you all to open your eyes and see what is really behind this.
Some questions;
Why it took so long Saddam Husein was found?
Why is still mr. Ben Laden not been killed?
What was really happening on september 11?
Why are some people with all the drugs, porn and weapons still alive?
Why can't your country find mr Hogan?
Why do not interfear America into the human smuggling in our Antilles?
Why do not interfear America into the drugs and weapon smuggling in our Antilles?

Do you believe all these American stories. People wake-up this is all a game a game larger as poker. If you don't want to know and keep your eyes closed, no problem. There are more forums where I talk about this issue and glad enough some people saw the "big picture".

Have a wonderfull day

Rather than me posting his information I hope all of you have done your googling  ::MonkeyCool::

The question is now what would the members of ScaredMonkeys like me to do with Baseltje now?  I can ban him or if you like you may ask him more questions.  Up to you all  ::MonkeyCool::

I truly believe that the the "police", in these small islands, must be required to read this kind of crap, to graduate from "the academies".  Wackjobs, all of them.

I have no questions and I'm sure Baseltje has no answers. 

Please Klaasend trow me out of this group because your people are not worth at all to know the truth.
Also I advice you to contact our local police and better will be if you contact our local office of public prosecution Mr Piar (is his name). They know me and we have regularly contact with each other.

I'm so sorry for those who are not willing to see what is really going on.

Have a wonderful day and good luck with your forum.
 

Thank you Buckeye

If I weren't already positive by it's first post - this little trinket sealed it for me.

Didn't even bother reading the rest.

What a piece of ch*t.

I vote for ban.

The site meter a wonderful friend sent me gave me the link I needed.

Per your request, you have been banned.  I think we've wasted enough time on you.

Thank you Klaas.

Prayers for the Hogan family.  The loss must be devastating.  The authorities response reprehensible.

That did it for me too.   

And THAT is the common between these islands.  It's no wonder vd Straten was so at home there.

I do hope Mr Hogan's family finds some answers soon!

Hi Muffy - good to see you.

Whoops - that was Bonaire, wasn't it?

Guess all 3 fit that category.

Well Hell, that was fun.  ::MonkeyFootball::

I was reading his web site last night. I had seen his books and all his free love and art energy stuff. He does live on some other planet.
He is a pretty good artist.

I guess the secret agency he was referring to is the C.I.A..
The C.I.A. thing coincides with the Colombian military and the FARC and Hugo Chavez and just about all of eastern and northern South America, as well as all of the Carribean.
 Even the Jim Jones cult murders along with the congressman in Guyana have been associated to the C.I.A. as well as the hippie cults in san Francisco that supported Jim's cult going to South America. Do not forget the experiments on the drug "ACID" on innocent people in taverns around America.
 Then there is the school of the Americas that trained people to torture and destabilize nations was associated to the C.I.A. I think that school was moved to Georgia.

Finnally we have Ron Paul who in a recent speech concludes that the C.I.A. is running the world and starts and controls all wars..
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-the-cia-runs-everything/

This is where this fellow gets all of this stuff from.. Is he paranoid ? Maybe and Maybe not as some of the things mentioned are most likely true.
I mean Bin Laden could never hide for this long.. and I do question the 911 buildings as it is obvious there was also demolition associated after the planes hit.

So they would be the ones ...

It is not that we have our eyes closed Baseltje "John" Capslockwizard and what ever other names you run under.
It is the FACT that you and all the DUTCH support them and there efforts..
But to mention insurance fraud on Natalee Holloway shows me just how ignorant you really are. So I hope you have fun in your make believe world and do practice more drawings with Anita. She needs help. Maybe you can show her how to draw Dogs.. I think she loves them too much.

What does any of this have to do with James Hogan ? I am not sure.. BUT Any member of the United States government who goes missing does not require the United States government to ask permission to go look for him and it would be the C.I.A. job to find out who murdered him. They are then supposed to contact the local government and have any culprits apprehended.. After that they do seem to have the ability to put this person in a prison torture the person with no court hearing as we are all aware of Guantanamo bay and other secret C.I.A. prisons around the world, water boarding and we have all seen the pictures.

The ignorance on Natalee Holloway by John is astounding.. Do you use drugs ?
 I do believe John has interfeared with an investigation into her disappearance by coming into the forums to mislead and direct searchers in wrong directions... capslockwizard, He is most likely Shango and Simian also as he is very creative..
But we are serious on any American citizen who is missing for any reason ..Too bad your culture does not feel that same about your own fellow citizens.. From prostitution and gambling to drugs like Mushrooms and cocaine and sex with Animals anything goes with the Dutch culture.
I remember reading of Dutch politicians that wanted to make it legal for 10 year olds to have sex with Adults.. Thank God somebody found some common sense.

You insult us ?? You think we control the C.I.A. ??
Your foolish Queen does along with all the rest of the foolish world leaders..

Just return our missing people.

Edward - would you mind doing me a favor?  Please next time you post, don't hold back.  Tell us how you really feel, ok?  It's so hard to try and ascertain what your feelings are when you are so vague.  ::MonkeyHaHa::


 ::MonkeyKiss::

Kudos to you, Edward!

 ::MonkeyWink:: It is all of you that I support. You all have done some excellent research in this case and have set the standard for others in humanity to achive.
Kudos to all of you members of Scared Monkeys and other forums which show that same intent. I am very proud of US.

 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

Absolutely despicable!

JMO
Is this retaliation for the U.S. authorities revealing the crimes that Stephen Sudduth committed while employed as a teacher at the International School in Curacao?  Crimes that they couldn't just sweep under the rug with international attention on them? 


http://photos.state.gov/libraries/curacao/5/2010/WEEKLY_News_100910.pdf

Curacao - Missing vice consul James Hogan allegedly seen in Dominican Republic 

Local newspaper Vigilante claims that a Dominican prostitute, who has worked in Curaçao at an unnamed prostitution center, and other witnesses have seen missing U.S. vice consul James Hogan in the Dominican Republic. Allegedly, Hogan lives with his girlfriend in the city of Santiago. The newspaper also links Hogan with former International School of Curaçao teacher Stephen Sudduth, who was arrested last year in the U.S. on child pornography charges. The article further suggests that Hogan and Sudduth worked together in filming minors in Curaçao (Vigilante).


Curacao - Justice Authorities alleged to have withheld information in Sudduth case 

A local newspaper reported that Antillean justice authorities allegedly withheld information in the Stephen Sudduth child pornography case, causing Sudduth to leave Curaçao in a hurry. Initially, local authorities had allegedly informed the press that Sudduth had not committed any crimes on the island. During the subsequent investigation in the United States, evidence showed that Sudduth had also broken the law “while babysitting in Curaçao.” The daily further claims that missing U.S. Vice Consul James Hogan had written a letter of recommendation, giving Sudduth the option of working at the International School of Curaçao. The newspaper also alleges that there is a strong suspicion that the FBI and Hogan were aware that Sudduth’s former wife had informed authorities that Sudduth was a pedophile and that it cannot be excluded that a “high U.S. official in Curaçao was his accomplice.” The article ends by saying that the FBI knew this official visited prostitution centers in Curaçao.

Another article in the same newspaper describes how FBI agents conduct investigations in Curaçao without permission from the Minister of Justice or Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO). The article further states that the FBI collected and withheld information from the PPO, blames the PAR-led government for these activities, but provides no evidence for its allegations (Vigilante).


More about the Stephen Sudduth case here:

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=6479.0

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/curacao/5/2010/WEEKLY_News_102310.pdf

News Items and Public Crime Summary for Week Ending
October 23, 2010

snipped

Curacao – Remembrance Ceremony Vice Consul James Hogan

There has been no declaration of death in the U.S. Vice-Consul James Hogan case, despite rumors in the media that he was declared dead, a U.S. Consulate General spokesperson said. Public Prosecutor Giselle Veen-Jonkhout and the U.S. Consulate confirmed and emphasized that the investigation is ongoing.

The U.S. Government made what is called a “finding of death” which is an administrative measure that enables his family to apply for certain benefits in connection with his U.S. Government employment. “A remembrance ceremony was held for members of the U.S. Consulate staff only, no local dignitaries were invited”, the spokesperson said. Mr. Hogan’s family has returned to the U.S. (Extra)

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/curacao/5/2010/WEEKLY_News_091110.pdf

CURAÇAO

Crime September 3 – 9

On August 31 a daytime break-in took place at the residence of an American staff member of the U.S. Consulate General. Thieves forced open a back door of the apartment near Jan Doret and took away a laptop computer and some other electronic items. The apartment of a neighbor was also broken into.
On September 5, a man in Seru Papaya was shot and killed during an argument with a home owner. The victim’s brother was also injured during the shooting (Amigoe, Extra, Antilliaans Dagblad).

http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-consulate-general-curacao-new-vice.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010

US Consulate General Curaçao: New Vice Consul?

Amigoe.com based in the Netherlands Antilles had a brief report on the new American Vice Consul at the US Consulate General in Curaçao in late January:   

WILLEMSTAD — Winifred Hofstetter is the new vice-consul for the American Consulate. Since the last two weeks, she succeeds James Hogan, who had mysteriously disappeared on September 25th, last year. Hofstetter was previously employed with the American Consulate in Abudja, Nigeria. The investigation into the disappearance of Hogan is still in progress and in the hands of the local authorities. The American FBI-officials had already left a long time ago.
Cannot confirm this independently since the Department's Background Notes still has James Hogan listed as post's Vice Consul  and the Key Officers Directory dated December 2, 2009 still has him as CON/POL/ECO officer for the US mission in the Netherlands Antilles.     

Related Post:
James Hogan: Now a Cold Case?

POSTED BY: DOMANI SPERO AT 8:27 AM [PERMALINK] 
TAGS FOREIGN SERVICE, FSOS, U.S. MISSIONS


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrNCCJKGBhs

http://www.youtube.com/v/nrNCCJKGBhs?fs=1&hl=en_US

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Entrante 8 di sèptember Antianonan ku ke drenta Merka lo mester paga un suma ora di registrá via e sistema elektróniko konosí komo ESTA. Departamentu di seguridat nashonal merikano a introdusí e sistema di "screen" persona online for di aña pasá, pero awor lo kuminsá kobra pa prosesá e registrashon tambe. Vise Konsul Merikano Winifred Hofstetter a splika ki e suma nobo aki ta enserá.
Personanan ku ya kaba a keda aprobá pa drenta Merka no tin ku paga, te ora ku nan tin ku registrá atrobe òf ora nan paspoort vense. E formulario bèrde konosí komo "I-94W" tambe no ta nesesario mas pa drenta Merka si bo pais di origin ta kai den e asina yamá "Visa Waiver Program" manera Kòrsou, Aruba i Bonaire.
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Snapshot from the video:

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http://bonairereporter.com/news/010pdfs/02-19-10.pdf

2/19/2010

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 ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/August/11-crm-1079.html

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Florida Woman Charged with Witness Tampering, False Statements and Obstruction of Justice in Relation to Her Husband’s Disappearance

WASHINGTON – A Gainesville, Fla., woman was charged in a seven-count indictment filed yesterday in the Northern District of Florida for her alleged role in the obstruction of a multinational investigation into the disappearance of her husband, James Hogan, then an employee in the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Pamela Cothran Marsh for the Northern District of Florida, Ambassador Eric J. Boswell of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
 
Abby Beard Hogan, 50, was charged with two counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement officials, one count of witness tampering and four counts of obstruction of justice.   According to the indictment, on the night of Sept. 24, 2009, James Hogan, an employee at the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, a Caribbean island that was part of the Netherlands Antilles, left his home on foot and subsequently disappeared.   The next day, a diver located his blood-stained clothing on a local beach.   American officials and the government of Curacao and the Kingdom of the Netherlands opened an investigation into the disappearance of James Hogan. 
 
The indictment alleges that, during the course of the investigation, Abby Hogan repeatedly provided false information to U.S. law enforcement about the time period before James Hogan’s disappearance and withheld relevant information.   Abby Hogan allegedly denied, among other things, that she was having an extramarital affair and that she and her husband had argued about the affair on the night of Sept. 24, 2009.   Additionally, the indictment alleges that Abby Hogan deleted multiple emails discussing the events leading up to and surrounding her husband’s disappearance.   The indictment also alleges that Abby Hogan instructed at least one person to conceal information from investigators.
 
The indictment is merely an allegation, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
 
Abby Hogan faces a maximum of five years in prison for each false statement count and 20 years in prison for each count of witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
 
The case is being prosecuted by Senior Trial Attorney Teresa Wallbaum of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Williams for the Northern District of Florida.  The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided assistance.  The case is being investigated by the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Legal Attache Office in Bridgetown, Barbados.   Assistance was also provided by Curacao law enforcement authorities. 

11-1079 Criminal Division

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=419482&CategoryId=13003

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 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyWaa::

http://www.amigoe.com/curacao/82081-vrouw-verdwenen-consul-hogan-aangeklaagd

Google translation:

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http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2011/08/james-hogan-case-former-efm-charged.html

 ::snipping2::

This is the first indictment in the disappearance case that will mark a two year milestone next month. I'm afraid this case may take a tawdry turn before it is over.

 ::snipping2::


http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-happened-to-american-diplomat.html

 ::snipping2::

We do not know if a report of presumptive death was officially issued in this case. And this one we still do not understand -- how can an American official simply disappears from his host country of assignment and there is barely a ripple in the American press?

 ::snipping2::

http://stayingsafeabroad.blogspot.com/2011/08/wife-of-missing-us-vice-consul-in.html

Thursday, August 25, 2011

WIFE OF MISSING US VICE CONSUL IN CURACAO INDICTED

Abby Beard Hogan, 50, a Florida attorney was charged yesterday (August 24) in a seven-count indictment filed yesterday in the Northern District of Florida for her alleged role in the obstruction of an investigation into the disappearance of her husband, James Hogan, formerly US vice-consul at the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, who disappeared on September 24, 2009.
 ::snipping2::

 ::MonkeyShocked::

Abby Hogan is not currently practicing law in Florida

http://www.floridabar.org/names.nsf/STATEMEM/B5B308C74C9F229C85256A84003B6534?OpenDocument

http://www.fbi.gov/miami/press-releases/2011/florida-woman-charged-with-witness-tampering-false-statements-and-obstruction-of-justice-in-relation-to-her-husbands-disappearance

 ::MonkeyShocked::  WOW!

 ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyEek::

I'm confused too. 

As far as I can tell, they aren't accusing her of killing him or having him killed.

What do they think happened to him, and how did her statements prevent them from finding him?

Finding him, or what happened to him and why he hasn't been found is the most important thing...right?

Is this case going to be deemed another one of those unfreakinbelievable suicides?

They're content with charging her with Witness Tampering, False Statements and Obstruction of Justice for now.  The case is still open in Curacao.   I doubt that they will work very hard to find him.  jmo

Could this be helpful (regarding death issue)? --


http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-happened-to-american-diplomat.html

This is a history of the documents filed in the USA vs HOGAN as of today.

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search

(I removed Passport numbers)

1:11-cr-00028-SPM-GRJ All Defendants USA v. HOGAN
Date filed: 08/23/2011
Date of last filing: 09/12/2011
History

1
Filed: 08/23/2011
Entered: 08/24/2011
Indictment
Docket Text: INDICTMENT (PDF redacted per privacy policy) as to ABBY HOGAN (1) count(s) 1-7.
(tss)

2
Filed: 08/23/2011
Entered: 08/24/2011
Sealed Document
Docket Text: Sealed Document - ORIGINAL INDICTMENT as to ABBY HOGAN (1) (tss)

3
Filed: 08/23/2011
Entered: 08/24/2011
Order for Warrant
Docket Text: ORDER FOR ISSUANCE OF Arrest WARRANT as to ABBY HOGAN signed by
MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 8/23/11. (tss)

(they've either skipped a number or (4) was removed)

5
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Scheduling Order
Docket Text: ORDER SETTING TRIAL AND OTHER PRETRIAL MATTERS as to ABBY HOGAN
- Jury Selection set for 10/17/2011 09:00 AM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE. Attorney Conference and Jury Trial set for 10/17/2011 08:30 AM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 8/24/2011. (atm)

6
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Bond
Docket Text: Redacted Unsecured Appearance and Compliance Bond Entered as to ABBY Modified on 8/25/2011 (atm).

7
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Sealed Document
Docket Text: Sealed Document - Appearance and Compliance Bond (contains privacy information) (atm)

8
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Order Setting Conditions of Release
Docket Text: REDACTED ORDER Setting Conditions of Release as to ABBY HOGAN (1) $25,000.00 unsecured bond. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 8/24/2011. (atm)

9
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011 
Order (Sealed)
Docket Text: SEALED ORDER setting conditions of release as to ABBY HOGAN (contains privacy information). Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 8/24/2011. (atm)

10
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Passport or Pilot License Surrendered
Docket Text: DIPLOMAT PASSPORT SURRENDERED as to ABBY HOGAN. Passport Number:
XXXXXXXXX issued by USA. PDF sealed per privacy policy due to the inclusion of personal identifiers.

11
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Passport or Pilot License Surrendered
Docket Text: PASSPORT SURRENDERED as to ABBY HOGAN. Passport Number: XXXXXXXXX
issued by USA. PDF sealed per privacy policy due to the inclusion of personal identifiers. (atm)
Passport forwarded to Special Agent Rowland Department of State. (atm)

12
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Initial Appearance
Docket Text: Minute Entry for proceedings held before MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES: Initial Appearance as to ABBY HOGAN held on 8/24/2011. Attorney Gilbert Schaffnit retained and shall advise the court by 9/9/2011 if attorney arrangements finalized. Defendant released on $25,000 unsecured bond pending trial. (Tape #CD 11-03.) (atm)

13
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/25/2011
Arraignment
Docket Text: Minute Entry for proceedings held before MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R
JONES:Arraignment as to ABBY HOGAN (1) Count 1-2,3,4-7 held on 8/24/2011. Pled not guilty to all counts. Trial set for 10/17/2011 at 8:30 a.m. before Senior Judge Stephan Mickle. Defendant released on $25,000.00 unsecured bond pending trial. (Tape #CD 11-03.) (atm)

14
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/26/2011
Notice of Attorney Appearance - USA
Docket Text: NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE - TERESA WALLBAUM appearing for USA
as to ABBY HOGAN. (tss)

15
Filed: 08/24/2011
Entered: 08/26/2011
Notice of Attorney Appearance - USA
Docket Text: NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE CHRISTOPHER P CANOVA appearing for
USA as to ABBY HOGAN (tss)

16
Filed: 08/26/2011
Entered: 08/29/2011
Warrant Returned Executed
Docket Text: Arrest Warrant Returned Executed on 8/24/11 in case as to ABBY HOGAN. (tss)

 ::snipping2::  (motion and granting of motion to extend time in naming defendants counsel)

19
Filed & Entered: 09/12/2011 Notice of Attorney Appearance - Defendant
Docket Text: NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE: GILBERT ALDEN SCHAFFNIT appearing
for ABBY HOGAN (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/

The Indictment

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment1of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment2of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment3of12.jpg)

to be continued...

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/

The Indictment continued

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(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment5of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment6of12.jpg)

to be continued...

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/

The Indictment continued

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment7of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment8of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment9of12.jpg)

to be continued...

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/

The Indictment conclusion

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment10of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment11of12.jpg)
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/Indictment12of12.jpg)

My thoughts and prayers are with James Hogan's family today, especially his children.

Two years ago today, their lives were forever changed.

I can only imagine what they're going through.  I hope they have a strong support system around them and can lean on each other as well in the coming days.

Thanks, TM.

So sad....poor kids.

You're welcome Buckeye.  Yes, it is so sad.

I'm curious what your thoughts are after reading the indictment...

I have so many questions.  ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyConfused::

1.  Who is "W".

I am at a loss.  I thought about who else would be stationed there.  Someone who they don't want to mention (very Dutch of them) ???  Then I thought anyone with the state department probably would not be asked to stay quiet because their job would be on the line.  Probably someone with links to tourism.  Wonder if she did trips to other islands.   :smt102 ::MonkeyConfused::

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search

1:11-cr-00028-SPM-GRJ All Defendants USA v. HOGAN
Date filed: 08/23/2011
Date of last filing: 09/27/2011

 ::snipping2::

20   
Filed & Entered:     09/23/2011
Terminated:   09/27/2011
Motion to Continue
Docket Text: MOTION to Continue Trial by ABBY HOGAN. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

21   
Filed:   09/27/2011
Entered:   09/28/2011
Order to Continue - Ends of Justice
Docket Text: ORDER TO CONTINUE - Ends of Justice as to ABBY HOGAN [Time excluded from 10/17/11 until 1/2/12] and granting [20] MOTION to Continue Trial -Jury Trial reset for 1/3/2012 at 08:30 AM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE; signed by SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE on 9/27/11. (tss)

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/0923201101MotiontoContinueTrial.jpg)

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/0923201102MotiontoContinueTrial.jpg)

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/0923201103MotiontoContinueTrial.jpg)

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/Court%20Docs/09272011OrdertoContinueTrialto01032012.jpg)

Abby's FB profile picture, I don't know who the man is...

http://www.facebook.com/abidjanhogan

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/texasmom55/Hogan%20James%20Edward/10022011_AbbyHoganFBprofilePic.jpg)

This is the same page as linked above.  So, mama has had a FB pagr for a few years.

Yes, and it is stated in the indictment that she was accessing her Facebook account as well as email the night of her husband's disappearance; during the time that she told the authorities she was asleep.

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=6197.msg1469682#msg1469682

See 14 (b)

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=6197.msg1469683#msg1469683

See 14 (d)

The trial didn't start yesterday, it has been continued until April 9th. 

I'll read over the documents, and may post more later.

https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search

 ::snipping2::

26   
Filed & Entered:     12/10/2011
Terminated:   12/12/2011
Motion to Continue
Docket Text: MOTION to Continue Trial by ABBY HOGAN. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)
    
Filed & Entered:     12/12/2011
Action Required by District Judge
Docket Text: ACTION REQUIRED BY DISTRICT JUDGE: Chambers of SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE notified that action is needed Re: [26] MOTION to Continue Trial filed by Defendant ABBY HOGAN (tss)

27   
Filed:   12/12/2011
Entered:   12/14/2011
Order to Continue - Ends of Justice
Docket Text: ORDER TO CONTINUE - Ends of Justice as to ABBY HOGAN [Time excluded from 1/3/12 until 4/8/12] and granting [26] MOTION to Continue Trial - Jury Trial reset for 4/9/2012 at 08:30 AM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE; signed by SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE on 12/12/11. (tss)

28   
Filed & Entered:     12/29/2011
Terminated:   12/30/2011
Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release by ABBY HOGAN. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

29   
Filed & Entered:     12/30/2011
Response to Motion
Docket Text: RESPONSE to Motion by USA as to ABBY HOGAN re [28] MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release (WALLBAUM, TERESA)

30   
Filed & Entered:     12/30/2011
Order on Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: ORDER denying [28] MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release as to ABBY HOGAN. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 12/30/2011. (kdm)

I hadn't checked on the case documents in a while, looks like quite a bit has happened.  From what I can tell, there won't be a trial.  In accordance with a plea agreement, Abby Hogan pleaded guilty to Count 5 of the Indictment (Obstruction of Justice) and the other counts will be dropped.  She faces up to 20 years in prison, and sentencing is scheduled for August 8, 2012.

https://ecf.flnd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/HistDocQry.pl?110501591810941-L_1_0-1

 ::snipping2::

31   
Filed & Entered:     02/03/2012
Terminated:   02/03/2012
Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release by ABBY HOGAN. (Attachments: # (1) Exhibit Exhibit "A") (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

32   
Filed & Entered:     02/03/2012
Order on Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: ORDER granting [31] Motion to Modify Conditions of Release as to ABBY HOGAN (1). Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on February 3, 2012. (grj)
    
Filed & Entered:     03/26/2012
Action Required by District Judge
Docket Text: ACTION REQUIRED BY DISTRICT JUDGE: Chambers of MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES notified that action is needed Re: [33] ORDER OF REFERENCE as to ABBY HOGAN (tss)

33   
Filed & Entered:     03/26/2012
Order
Docket Text: ORDER OF REFERENCE as to ABBY HOGAN referring case to the Magistrate Judge to conduct all proceedings required by Rule 11 incident to a guilty plea and to make a recommendation to the District Judge concerning acceptance or rejection of said plea signed by SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE on 3/26/12. (tss)

34   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Change of Plea Hearing
Docket Text: Minute Entry for proceedings held before MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES:Change of Plea Hearing as to ABBY HOGAN held on 3/29/2012 (Court Reporter Jackie Monson, Advantage.) (kdm)

35   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Consent to Plea Before Magistrate Judge (re Felony)
Docket Text: CONSENT TO PLEA BEFORE MAGISTRATE JUDGE For Purpose of Change of Plea to Guilty by USA and ABBY HOGAN (kdm)

36   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Plea Agreement
Docket Text: PLEA AGREEMENT as to ABBY HOGAN (kdm)

37   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Sealed Document
Docket Text: Sealed Document - Supplement as to ABBY HOGAN. (kdm)

38   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Statement of Facts
Docket Text: STATEMENT OF FACTS by USA as to ABBY HOGAN (kdm)

39   
Filed & Entered:     03/29/2012
Terminated:   03/30/2012
Report and Recommendation
Docket Text: REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION as to ABBY HOGAN it is RECOMMENDED that the Court ACCEPT the plea agreement and Defendants plea of guilty. Internal deadline for referral to district judge if objections are not filed earlier: 3/30/2012.. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 3/29/12. (bkp)

40   
Filed:   03/29/2012
Entered:   03/30/2012
Plea Entered
Docket Text: Plea entered by ABBY HOGAN (1) Guilty Count 5, re [34] Minute Entry for proceedings held. (kdm)
    
Filed & Entered:     03/30/2012
Plea Agreement Accepted
Docket Text: Plea Agreement Accepted as to ABBY HOGAN (tss)

41   
Filed & Entered:     03/30/2012
Order Adopting Report and Recommendation
Docket Text: ACCEPTANCE OF GUILTY PLEA AND ORDER ADOPTING [39] REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION as to ABBY HOGAN signed by SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE on 3/30/12. (tss)

42   
Filed & Entered:     03/30/2012
Notice of Hearing
Docket Text: NOTICE OF HEARING as to ABBY HOGAN
Sentencing set for 6/6/2012 at 01:30 PM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE
Note: If you or any party, witness or attorney in this matter has a disability that requires special accommodations, such as a hearing impairment that requires a sign-language interpreter or a wheelchair restriction that requires ramp access, please contact the Clerk's Office at least one week prior to the hearing (or as soon as possible) so arrangements can be made.
s/ TiAnn Stark
Courtroom Deputy Clerk (tss)

43   
Filed & Entered:     04/05/2012
Fee Paid
Docket Text: Fee Paid: SMA $ 100.00, receipt number FLN 1-1641 as to ABBY HOGAN. (jws)
    
Filed & Entered:     04/23/2012
Action Required by Magistrate Judge
Docket Text: ACTION REQUIRED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE: Chambers of MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES notified that action is needed Re: [44] MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release for Travel Outside of the Northern District filed by Defendant ABBY HOGAN - Referred to GARY R JONES. (tss)

44   
Filed & Entered:     04/23/2012
Terminated:   04/24/2012
Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release for Travel Outside of the Northern District by ABBY HOGAN. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

45   
Filed & Entered:     04/23/2012
Terminated:   05/01/2012
Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: Second MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Removal of Ankle Monitor by ABBY HOGAN. (Attachments: # (1) Exhibit Dr. Eric Diamond Letter) (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)
    
Filed & Entered:     04/24/2012
Action Required by Magistrate Judge
Docket Text: ACTION REQUIRED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE: Chambers of MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES notified that action is needed Re: [45] Second MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Removal of Ankle Monitor filed by Defendant ABBY HOGAN - Referred to GARY R JONES. (tss)

46   
Filed & Entered:     04/24/2012
Order on Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: ORDER granting [44] Motion to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Defendant to Travel as to ABBY HOGAN (1) signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 4/24/12. (tss)

47   
Filed:   04/24/2012
Entered:   04/25/2012
Order
Docket Text: ORDER as to ABBY HOGAN re [45] Second MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Removal of Ankle Monitor filed by ABBY HOGAN. Set Motion Hearings for 5/1/2012 10:30 AM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 4/24/2012. (atm)

48   
Filed & Entered:     04/26/2012
Response in Opposition
Docket Text: RESPONSE in Opposition by USA as to ABBY HOGAN re [45] Second MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Removal of Ankle Monitor (WALLBAUM, TERESA)

49   
Filed & Entered:     04/30/2012
Reply to Response
Docket Text: REPLY TO RESPONSE to Motion by ABBY HOGAN re [48] Response in Opposition, [45] Second MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release to Allow Removal of Ankle Monitor (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

50   
Filed & Entered:     05/01/2012
Bond Hearing
Docket Text: Minute Entry for proceedings held before MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES: Bond Hearing as to ABBY HOGAN held on 5/1/2012. Defense motion to modify conditions of release to allow removal of ankle monitor, granted. All other conditions of release previously imposed will remain in affect. Written order to follow. (Tape #CD 12-02.) (atm)

51   
Filed:   05/01/2012
Entered:   05/02/2012
Order on Motion to Modify Conditions of Release
Docket Text: ORDER granting [45] Motion to Modify Conditions of Release as to ABBY HOGAN (1). The order setting conditions of release [9] is hereby MODIFIED to delete the condition that Defendant participate in a program of GPS monitoring. All other conditions of release shall remain in full and force and effect. Signed by MAGISTRATE JUDGE GARY R JONES on 5/1/2012. (atm)

52   
Filed & Entered:     05/04/2012
Presentence Investigation Report
Docket Text: DRAFT PRESENTENCE INVESTIGATION REPORT as to ABBY HOGAN. E-copies made available to selected parties. Responses to the Draft Report are due by 5/18/2012. (rhoden, paula)

53   
Filed & Entered:     05/09/2012
Terminated:   05/10/2012
Motion for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply
Docket Text: MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply by ABBY HOGAN. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)
    
Filed & Entered:     05/10/2012
Action Required by District Judge
Docket Text: ACTION REQUIRED BY DISTRICT JUDGE: Chambers of SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE notified that action is needed Re: [53] MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply filed by Defendant ABBY HOGAN (tss)

54   
Filed & Entered:     05/10/2012
Order
Docket Text: ORDER granting [53] MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply filed by ABBY HOGAN - defendant to file objections to PSR by 5/25/2012 and sentencing memoranda by 07/30/12 - Sentencing reset for 8/8/2012 at 01:30 PM in U.S. Courthouse Gainesville before SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE; signed by SENIOR JUDGE STEPHAN P MICKLE on 5/10/12. (tss)

55   
Filed & Entered:     05/11/2012
Record of Proceedings and Notice to Attorneys of Redaction Requirements
Docket Text: NOTICE OF FILING OF OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT of Proceedings as to ABBY HOGAN held on 5/1/2012, before Judge Gary R. Jones. Court Reporter/Transcriber Julie A. Wycoff, Telephone number 850-470-8196.
Transcript may be viewed at the court public terminal or purchased through the Court Reporter/Transcriber before the deadline for Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER.
Redaction Request due 5/18/2012. Release of Transcript Restriction set for 8/16/2012. (jaw)

56   
Filed & Entered:     05/25/2012
Response/Reply re Draft Presentence Investigation Report
Docket Text: RESPONSE to [52] Presentence Investigation Report as to ABBY HOGAN. PDF access restricted to the court, U.S. Probation, counsel for the defendant, and counsel for the United States of America. (SCHAFFNIT, GILBERT)

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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/March/12-crm-403.html

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, March 30, 2012

Florida Woman Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice in Relation to Her Husband’s Disappearance

Abby Beard Hogan, 50, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Northern District of Florida for her role in the obstruction of a multinational investigation into the disappearance of her husband, James Hogan, then an employee in the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Pamela Cothran Marsh for the Northern District of Florida, U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric J. Boswell and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
 
Abby Hogan pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary R. Jones to one count of obstruction of justice.
 
According to court documents, on the night of Sept. 24, 2009, James Hogan, an employee at the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, a Caribbean island that was part of the Netherlands Antilles, left his home on foot and subsequently disappeared.  In the early hours of Sept. 25, 2009, James Hogan called his wife and spoke for approximately three minutes.   The next day, when James Hogan failed to report to work, the U.S. government and Dutch and Antillean law enforcement launched an island-wide search and opened an investigation into Hogan’s disappearance.   On Sept. 25, 2009, a diver located James Hogan’s blood-stained clothing on a local beach.
 
Abby Hogan admitted that during the course of the investigation, she repeatedly provided false information to U.S. law enforcement about the time period before James Hogan’s disappearance and withheld relevant information.  Abby Hogan initially told investigators that, before his disappearance, she and her husband had an argument.   She subsequently modified that statement and claimed that there had been no argument, just a minor disagreement over her husband’s next assignment for the State Department.   Abby Hogan further told U.S. law enforcement agents that James Hogan had been in a “good mood” prior to leaving for his walk on the evening of his disappearance.   She repeatedly denied that there had been any marital problems or that her husband had been upset, depressed or suicidal in any way.   Abby Hogan further stated that she could not remember the full three-minute conversation before her husband disappeared because she was sound asleep when her husband called.   She claimed she fell back asleep after the call, and did not awake until the following morning. 
 
According to court documents, after law enforcement interviews, between Sept. 30, 2009, and Jan. 15, 2010, Abby Hogan deleted more than 300 emails from her Internet email account.   These emails contained information that Abby Hogan knew was relevant to specific questions she had been asked by U.S. law enforcement.   The emails also contained information that she had either previously misrepresented or knowingly omitted during her interviews with law enforcement, including that she was engaged in an extramarital affair; the night James Hogan disappeared, the couple had argued, and he left the house angry and upset; and that she did not want law enforcement to know what had happened that evening.   
 
Abby Hogan faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice.
 
The case was prosecuted by Senior Trial Attorney Teresa Wallbaum of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Williams for the Northern District of Florida.  The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided assistance.  The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Legal Attaché Office in Bridgetown, Barbados.  Assistance was also provided by Curacao law enforcement authorities.

12-403
Criminal Division

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1883136

Missing Curacao US diplomat's wife pleads guilty
By DANICA COTO
Associated Press
2012-04-01 04:52 AM

The wife of a U.S. diplomat who vanished on the Caribbean Dutch island of Curacao nearly two years ago has pleaded guilty to hampering the investigation into his disappearance.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that Abby Hogan pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and accused her of repeatedly providing false information to federal agents and withholding relevant information.

Hogan's plea, however, did not solve the mystery of her husband's disappearance.

James Hogan, 49, was U.S. vice consul in Curacao, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Venezuela, when he disappeared during a late night walk on Sept. 24, 2009. The couple had lived on the island since August 2008 in an upscale neighborhood near the capital of Willemstad.

Abby Hogan entered her plea in a federal courthouse in Gainesville, Florida, where she now lives. She faces up to 20 years in prison during a sentence hearing on June 6.

Her attorney, Gilbert Schaffnit, told The Associated Press on Saturday that he anticipates the sentencing date to be pushed back. He declined further comment because the case is ongoing.

"The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Mr. Hogan are extremely painful for my client," he said.

Hours after his vice consul's disappearance, a recreational diver found his bloodstained clothes at Baya Beach, a popular site for its water activities and nightlife. Police said they also found his blood on rocks leading to the water, along with an expensive kitchen knife and his cell phone.

Hogan's disappearance sparked a lengthy search by the local coast guard and the U.S. Navy, but his body was never found. The investigation into his death remains open.

Police spokesman Reginald Huggins said Saturday that he could not comment on the case. Public prosecutor Philomene van Logten said no one was available to speak about the case until Monday.

Authorities previously said they were considering all possibilities, including suicide.

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https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search

Snipped from document 51

Case 1:11-cr-00028-SPM-GRJ   Document 51   Filed 05/01/12   Page 2 of 5
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The Defendant testified as to the stress and limitations on her physical, social, and work activities due to the ankle monitor.  Defendant also testified regarding her present personal circumstances.  Defendant testified that she owns a home in Gainesville, is actively working as an artist, belongs to a church and a food cooperative, and has two children who live and attend school in Gainesville.   Defendant’s income is derived from military disability retirement benefits and Social Security. On cross examination, Defendant testified that she is in a relationship with a person in Gainesville.  The Government elicited testimony that it was the destruction of Defendant’s emails to this person while Defendant lived in Curacao that led to the obstruction-of-justice charge to which she pleaded guilty.   

In opposition to Defendant’s motion, the Government argued that stress, embarrassment, and inconvenience are not compelling reasons to modify the

Case 1:11-cr-00028-SPM-GRJ   Document 51   Filed 05/01/12   Page 3 of 5

conditions of release.   The Government contended that Defendant has engaged in a pattern of misstatements, including failing to explain in her direct testimony that she moved to Gainesville to pursue a relationship.
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http://diplopundit.net/2012/04/02/james-hogan-case-missing-diplomats-wife-pleads-guilty-to-obstruction-of-justice/

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The James Hogan missing flyer is still up on the US Consulate General Curacao’s website. Despite the obstruction of justice guilty plea here, we are nowhere closer to understanding what happened to Mr. Hogan over there.

http://curacao.usconsulate.gov/index.html

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/curacao/215422/Emergency/flyer_james_hogan_engels-spaans.pdf

I think this is the man in the picture with Abby.

Michael John Ward

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1584789250&sk=friends

http://www.whitepages.com/name/Michael-J-Ward/Gainesville-FL/6rhgjsu
(The address listed here is less than a mile from hers).

http://www.peoplesmart.com/psp.aspx?_act=resultsgo&search=name&firstName=Michael&middleName=John&lastName=Ward&age=50&ZIPCode=32601&city=Alachua&state=FL&utm_source=corporationwiki.com&utm_medium=Advertising&utm_content=PeoplePageWidgetH150_A&utm_campaign=PeoplePages&tid=PeoplePageWidgetH150_A&cam=&aff=66

Michael J Ward
Michael John Ward
2 more   
50 (Years old)   
Gainesville, FL    

Possible relations
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http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Gainesville/ward-environmental-services-inc-4927827.aspx

Ward Environmental Services, Inc. has a location in Gainesville, FL. Active officers include Michael J Ward.

Filings:    Domestic for Profit Corporation (FL - Inactive)
Source:      Florida Department of State last refreshed 5/19/2012

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Case 1:11-cr-00028-SPM-GRJ Document 62 Filed 07/27/12

(Pages 1-16)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
GAINESVILLE DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
CASE NO.: 1:11-CR-28-SPM-GRJ
v. ELECTRONICALLY FILED
ABBY HOGAN,
Defendant
_______________________________/

GOVERNMENT’S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM
COMES NOW the United States, by and through its undersigned counsel and hereby
respectfully submits its Sentencing Memorandum to assist the Court in determining Defendant’s sentence in this case. The Sentencing Guidelines, as correctly calculated in the Presentence Investigative Report, establish a reasonable sentencing range that appropriately accounts for each of the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). Accordingly, the government requests that this Court impose a sentence within the applicable guideline range of 27-33 months.

I. Defendant Engaged in a Scheme of False Statements and Obstructive Acts to Hinder
the Investigation into the Disappearance of her Husband

Sometime after 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2009, James Hogan – the Vice Consul at the U.S. Consulate in the Caribbean island of Curacao – left his residence in the capital city of Willemstad. Shortly after midnight on Friday, September 25, James Hogan’s cell phone (located near a tourist resort called “Lion’s Dive”) called Defendant Abby Hogan. That two minute, 58-second phone call is the last confirmed contact with James Hogan. Later that
afternoon, a recreational diver discovered a pair of jeans with bloodstains, a pair of socks, and a pair of tennis shoes at a rocky beach area in Curacao known as Blue Rock. Dutch law enforcement also discovered blood on the beach and on rocks near the shore; the blood on the jeans and rocks matched James Hogan’s DNA. Investigators found James Hogan’s cell phone and a knife in the water near the blood-stained rocks. James Hogan’s body has never been found, and he is presumed dead.

American, Dutch, and Antillean officials mobilized immediately in an effort to locate James Hogan or to prevent the disposal of his body. Their primary source of information was Defendant Abby Hogan – James Hogan’s wife - who was the last known person to see or speak to him. In at least five interviews over the course of six months, Defendant told U.S. and Dutch law enforcement essentially the same story: that the evening James disappeared had been normal; that James had been in a good mood, nothing had been bothering him, and there were no marital problems. Defendant claimed that James had taken his normal evening walk and that she had taken a sleeping pill and slept through the evening. She was awakened briefly after midnight by a call from James to her cell phone. She could not remember anything from the nearly three minute conversation except that he was still out walking and she should leave the door unlocked.  She then fell back asleep and did not notice he was missing until the next morning. After her initial statement, Defendant amended her story to add that: (1) James had been worried that a recently-fired Consulate employee with a criminal record might seek revenge; and (2) someone had interrupted James during the midnight phone call.

Subsequent investigation, however, revealed that Defendant’s version of events was
completely false. Defendant’s own emails (see Attach. 1) provide a timeline of events leading
up to Hogan’s disappearance and disclose a household in turmoil. In March, 2009, Defendant reconnected with her high school boyfriend “Mike” (Attach. 1; Email 1). By early June, Defendant was planning a trip to Gainesville to see him (Email 2: “Do you understand I want to sleep with you?”); on August, 17, 2009, Defendant consummated the affair in Florida (Email 6).  Even before returning to Curacao, Defendant broached the idea of leaving her husband for her lover. See, e.g. Email 7 (8/27/09: “If there’s any way I can do it we are going to be together).  Within days of her return to Curacao, Defendant began exploring her options. See, e.g. Email 11  (9/1/09 email to sister asking about career options in Florida); Email 17 (9/8/09 email to friend “I’m thinking of leaving my 23+ year marriage”). Defendant, however, was concerned that James might “react very strongly” to her leaving (Email 13; Email 19); See also Email 21: (“will Jim let me leave”).

Upon her return, James Hogan became suspicious of his wife’s behavior and began asking questions about her trip. Email 10, 18, 23. Eventually, James caught his wife in a lie about seeing her high school boyfriend (Email 23), and two days before his disappearance, James discussed the lie in an email exchange (Email 25). On the night he disappeared, James Hogan
used Defendant’s pink Dell laptop to make a Skype video call to his step-daughter. Afterwards, sometime around 9:00 pm, he saw Defendant’s emails, including her emails to her lover. Email 49. At 9:20 pm, four emails were forwarded from Defendant’s email account to James Hogan’s email account. See Email 33-36. These contained references to the affair. See, e.g. Email 28 & 36 (“it is very difficult for me to pretend to love him [James] when my heart is there with you.  To have sex when I don’t feel the love behind it.”) An argument ensued, which led Defendant to email her lover: “jim knows everything. it’s awful.” Email 37. During the argument, Defendant “refused to call” her lover and break off the relationship, as her husband requested, and as a result she might have “caused something terrible to happen.” Email 36.

Forensic analysis of various email accounts established that – after her husband’s disappearance – Defendant deleted at least 365 emails that were relevant to the investigation and responsive to questions she was being asked by U.S. law enforcement, including all emails discussed above. She deleted emails not only from her account, but she accessed her husband’s email account at least twice on different days and selectively deleted only those emails that related to the events leading up to his disappearance. The government was able to retrieve these deleted emails from various sources, including Defendant’s lover. Computer analysis also established that Defendant was not asleep during the evening James Hogan disappeared, but in fact had been on the internet at least eleven times, including within minutes of the last phone call from James Hogan. Defendant also deleted information from her cell phone for the period of September 24-26, 2009.

Shortly after her first in-depth interview with U.S. law enforcement, Defendant emailed a
friend who knew of the affair and requested that “if an investigator talks to you, please don’t tell him what i talked to you about.” Email 59.

Finally, on two separate occasions defendant lied about and withheld a pink Dell laptop
that was relevant to the investigation. During a September 26, 2009 search of her home,
Defendant had told Dutch and U.S. law enforcement that the pink laptop belonged to her
children, and neither she nor James used it. Approximately six months later, when U.S. law
enforcement again asked about the pink laptop in a March 2010 interview, Defendant claimed
the pink laptop was broken and had been discarded in Florida in August 2009. A search of
Defendant’s household goods upon her return to the United States discovered this pink laptop;  subsequent forensic analysis – coupled with other evidence – established that James Hogan had accessed this computer shortly before he disappeared (including to make a Skype call), and it was almost certainly the computer Defendant references in emails 24 and 49.

Analysis further established that, within a few hours of the interview in which she claimed the pink laptop was broken and discarded, Defendant used the pink laptop to burn a CD of information from a Yahoo Web Mail folder, using a shortcut titled “Mike.”

II. The Applicable Guideline Range is Appropriate and Reasonable

Even though the Sentencing Guidelines are advisory, a sentencing court “must consult
those Guidelines and take them into account when sentencing.” United States v. Booker, 543
U.S. 220, 125 S. Ct. 738, 767 (2005). The Presentence Report correctly concluded that three
special offense characteristics apply to this case, all of which are substantiated by the facts.

(1) Substantial interference with the administration of justice (USSG § 2J1.2(b)(2)).
Defendant impeded an extensive, multi-national investigation involving three U.S. law
enforcement agencies, the U.S. Navy, and the Coast Guard, along with Dutch and Antillean law enforcement, and forensic resources. She did so knowing full well the scope of the investigation.
See, e.g., Email 40 (“the entire island is looking, including the Regional Security Officer (state
dept) from Venezuela, DEA, US military, local/dutch coast guard, local police, the us state dept in dc knows.”); Email 44 (“everyone they can get, us, dutch, local, are helping”); Email 45 (“navy search plane will start flying today and tracker dogs are coming from netherlands”);
Email 52: (“they are supposedly searching everything, on land, all over the island, and in the
water”).

(2) Destruction of a substantial number of records (USSG § 2J1.2(b)(3)(A)). As one of her obstructive acts, Defendant selectively deleted at least 365 relevant emails from two different email accounts on several different occasions. This qualifies as a “substantial number of records.”

(3) Obstructing or Impeding the Administration of Justice (USSG § 3C1.1). Under
USSG § 3C1.1, application note 7, a 2-level enhancement may apply to an obstruction of justice case “if a significant further obstruction occurred during the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the obstruction offense itself * * *.” In this case, defendant took multiple separate steps to obstruct the investigation into her false statements to law enforcement. The most egregious are: (1) Defendant’s October 10, 2009 email to a friend asking: “if an investigator talks to you, please don't tell him what i talked to you about”; and (2) Defendant’s false statement during an interview on March 19, 2010, in which she claimed that the pink laptop was broken and discarded; within hours of that interview Defendant accessed that pink laptop and burned a CD from a Yahoo Web Mail folder with a shortcut used to access the Yahoo Web Mail labeled “Mike.” United States v. Roche, 321 F.3d 607, 608-11 (6th Cir. 2003), supports the conclusion that these actions constitute “significant further obstruction.” In that case, the defendant Roche – convicted of obstruction of justice – submitted a fraudulent character reference purportedly signed by the mother of his children, Ketura Kulberg. He subsequently “requested that she [Kulberg] advise the FBI that she * * * had consented to permit Roche to write the letter he had forged.” Id. at 609. The Sixth Circuit upheld application of the 2-level enhancement under § 3C1.1 based solely on this subsequent request to lie, holding that defendant’s “effort to convince Kulberg to forswear her statements clearly qualifies as a ‘further obstruction’ under § 3C1.1.” Id. at 611.

III. The Sentencing Guidelines are Reasonable and Consistent with the Sentencing
Factors Under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)

In addition to the Sentencing Guidelines, the court must consider the factors set forth in
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), including, inter alia, the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant; the need to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; the need for deterrence; and the need to protect the public. United States v. Talley, 431 F.3d 784, 786 (11th Cir. 2005). The Presentence Report has correctly calculated the Guideline Range in this case as a total offense level of 18 and a Guidelines’ Range of 27-33 months. This sentence is also reasonable under a consideration of the sentencing factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).

A. The Nature of the Offense was Egregious and Serious
Defendant Abby Hogan engaged in a calculated, systematic scheme to conceal the events
leading up to the disappearance of James Hogan, including statements and obstructive acts that hindered U.S. law enforcement’s early efforts to locate him. She has remained committed to her scheme of deception – making the same false statements in at least five interviews, including one that occurred approximately six months after her husband’s disappearance. Defendant’s criminal activity was not impulsive or isolated. It was not motivated from embarrassment or desire to protect others.

Defendant’s purely selfish motives for lying to U.S. law enforcement are evident from
her own emails, which she deleted. First, she knew that she was a person of interest in a missing person investigation. As a lawyer and former military prosecutor, she knew how criminal investigations work. See Email 3 (“When I was prosecuting, one of the lessons I learned is that the jury only knows what I tell them and they only know it if I tell them.”). She also knew that she was a person of interest in the disappearance of her husband. See Email 41 (DEA asked her to take polygraph); Email 42 (Dutch searched family car: “I guess they think I loaded Jim’s body in it and took him somewhere”); Email 43 (“I was sort of accused by the DEA guys of knowing what happened and not telling”); Email 50 (friend advising her to obtain lawyer since she was a “person of interest”). Defendant’s affair, her desire to leave her husband, and her uncertainty regarding his reaction would have prompted closer scrutiny from law enforcement on Defendant as a possible suspect in the investigation – a fact Defendant knew would know full well as a lawyer and former prosecutor.

Second, Defendant’s emails reveal that she did not want her husband’s disappearance to
jeopardize her affair. On September 28, 2009, Defendant’s lover wrote: “if that poor soul has
done himself in there’s no way I could life (sic) with that and a life of constant reminder.” Email 53. Defendant sent two emails in reply: (1) “Please don’t blame me for what Jim has done.  That’s not fair. (Email 54); and (2) “I am in shock from our conversation. * * * I am not to blame for what Jim has done. * * * You and I need to be together.” Email 55 By September 30, 2009 – while the search for her husband was on-going – Defendant emailed a real estate agent about houses in Gainesville. Email 56. By October 15, 2009, Defendant was discussing moving to Gainesville with her lover. See, e.g. Email 60 (10/15/09: “I just want to know if you’re going to give into my demands and say yes, you and I are going to start all over again.”); Email 62 (10/25/09: “I would love to come to Gainesville and be happy * * *. Are you in or out? Should I keep dreaming and working towards this?”).

Defendant’s persistent scheme of deception has produced a litany of harms. Most importantly, her actions hindered the initial search for James Hogan. In the early hours after
James Hogan’s disappearance, U.S. and foreign law enforcement worked around the clock to try and locate the missing father of four. As a result of Defendant’s actions, U.S. law enforcement missed opportunities to solve the disappearance of James Hogan, including a search of the pink laptop (used by James before he left the house), a search of the family residence, and the pursuit of any leads from Defendant’s cell phone and the last phone call with James Hogan. For example, a search of the pink laptop in September 2009 could have revealed information in the computer’s short-term memory, including any websites searched by James Hogan or Defendant.

A search of Defendant’s cell phone could have revealed any calls or texts to other persons – impossible at the time because Defendant had a pre-paid cell phone, and impossible after her return to the United States because information had been manually erased from that phone.

Defendant’s implication of others, including a former Consulate employee, and her insistence that nothing unusual happened before her husband left the house, led the U.S. agents
to conclude that foul play was a likely scenario – and law enforcement responded accordingly.

Within 48 hours, the U.S. government began dispatching agents from multiple domestic and
foreign locations, eventually mobilizing approximately 25 agents within the first two weeks.
The Dutch and Antillean governments reacted similarly, committing significant resources to find James Hogan in the largest search in the history of the Netherland Antilles.

To this date, the disappearance of James Hogan remains unsolved, and Defendant has failed to reveal the truth of what happened that night, even declining a government request to speak after her guilty plea. Most significantly, Defendant has never told the truth about the last confirmed phone call from James Hogan after he left the house. Defendant’s claim in her March 2010 interview that she could not remember the nearly three-minute conversation because she was “groggy” is undeniably false, as her internet activity proves she was not asleep when her husband called and that she was alert enough to sign into her email account within minutes of concluding that call. This uncertainty and lack of closure has affected her family, including her children, see Email 70, and James Hogan’s mother and siblings.

The calculated nature of the offense is particularly evident from the two day interview in
March, 2010. In that interview, Defendant lied repeatedly about every nuance that could have revealed the bigger lie. When asked if she knew anyone in Gainesville, she said no. When asked if she had been checking her email for anything specific, she said no, when it is clear she was awaiting an answer from her email that Jim knew everything and it was awful. See Email 37. She persisted in her story despite being told that U.S. agents had evidence of an affair.

Defendant stated repeatedly, that her lover was “just a friend,” she did not “sleep with Mike,” and that her husband and she had a minor disagreement, but it was not about her high school boyfriend. When Defendant was shown a nude photo of her lover that she had emailed to herself, Defendant was not embarrassed. When confronted with irrefutable proof of her affairs, she said simply “well, now you know.” When asked about the pink laptop, she lied, and lied in a way to prevent further inquiries (it was discarded). Within hours of the interview, she used that same pink laptop to access an internet shortcut to a file with her lover’s name and burned a CD from that link.

B. Just Punishment and Adequate Deterrence

i. Defendant has Shown no Remorse or Respect for the Law
A sentence within the Guidelines range is necessary as a just punishment for Defendant,
who has demonstrated no remorse over her actions, and has given no indication that she
understands the costs of her lies and obstructive actions. She has provided no closure to her
children or to James Hogan’s siblings and mother.

In her testimony before the Magistrate Judge seeking removal of a GPS monitoring device, Defendant displayed exactly the same behavior that was a hallmark of her interactions
with law enforcement. Specifically, when explaining why she had voluntarily returned to
Gainesville, she listed several factors, including her daughter’s decision to attend the University of Florida. Attach. 2 at 20. Notably absent from that list of reasons was any mention of her lover Mike. On cross-examination, when asked why she had not mentioned Mike, Defendant downplayed him. He was merely a “man she is seeing,” who she saw once, and had “an affair with him during the period of a week.” Id. at 26. All of these statements echoed her previous false statements to law enforcement. In fact, Mike was the “love of her life,” a man she was determined to be with (Email 7, 13, 14, 22, 31, 32, 34, 51), as soon as he signaled he was ready (Email 19, 27).

Similarly, Defendant’s claim that she moved to Gainesville because her children were
permanent, which was not “necessarily” true of her lover, Attach 2 at 26, also rings hollow in
light of her emails, in which she indicated that: (1) she was willing to leave her minor child
behind in order to be with her lover (Email 13, 14, 22); (2) she had decided to move to
Gainesville – and was looking for houses near her lover – within 5 days of her husband’s
disappearance (Email 56); and (3) she was pressing her lover for a commitment to the
relationship as a pre-requisite for moving to Gainesville. See, e.g., Emails 60, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68.

Defendant’s overwhelming reason to move to Gainesville was to be with her lover, not her
children. See Attach. Email 62 (“the thing I want most, you, is what’s driving the rest of my
decisions”); see also Email 13 (“I want to be in Gainesville if that’s where you are”); Email 61
(declining free place to live in Pensacola because her lover was not there); Email 67: (1/23/10:  “do you want me to move to gville or not”); Email 68 (“i (sic) need to know. i (sic) can’t sign the contract for the house if you can’t even tell me you want me there.” See also Attach. 5 (12/31/09 text to lover: “there's no other reason for me to go there if not to see if we can be together. My “aggressiveness” doesn't extend that far.).

ii. Defendant’s Military Service Makes her Deceptions Even More Egregious
Defendant’s military service, and specifically her role as a Judge Advocate prosecutor,
makes her calculated deceptions all the more egregious and warrants a strong sentence as just punishment and deterrence. As a former prosecutor and licensed lawyer, Defendant knew full well the seriousness of her actions. Indeed, in her time as a Judge Advocate appellate lawyer, she argued to uphold the convictions of people who used deception to violate the law. See, e.g. United States v. Gray, 1996 CCA Lexis 482 (U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals 1996) (Lt. Abby Hogan, Appellate Government Counsel, defending conviction for, inter alia, possessing a fake identification card and wrongful obtaining by false pretenses). She knew full well what consequences her false statements and obstructive acts could have. She could foresee that her statements shifting suspicion to others would prompt law enforcement to take action. In this case, that action included wiretapping telephones and conducting numerous interviews, none of which produced any evidence substantiating Defendant’s allegations. It would be ironic, indeed, if Defendant were to receive a variance for her military service, when her service as a military prosecutor gave her special insight into the impact her false statements and obstructive actions would have on a criminal investigation. See United States v. Theunick, 651 F.3d 578, 583 (6th Cir. 2011) (finding defendant’s request for a variance “ironic” because “the crime wouldn’t have been able to have been committed in the way in which it was had it not been for the position of public authority and public trust that the defendant occupied as chief of police.”)(quoting lower court).

iii. Defendant’s Military Service Does Not Justify a Downward Departure or Variance
Defendant’s claims notwithstanding, her military career does not justify a downward
departure or variance from the Sentencing Guidelines. In 2010, following the Supreme Court’s
decision in Porter v. McCollum, 130 S. Ct. 447, 455 (2009), the Sentencing Guidelines
recognized, for the first time, that military service “may be relevant in determining whether a
departure is warranted, if [it], individually or in combination with other offender characteristics, is present to an unusual degree and distinguishes the case from the typical cases covered by the guidelines.” U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 5H1.11 (2010) at app. C, amend. 739 (emphasis added). Cases that considered military service both before and after the amendment have tended to grant variances either when there has been combat and disability or honor.

Compare United States v. Pipich, 688 F. Supp. 191, 192-93 (D. Md. 1988) (granting departure
under the statutory catch-all provision 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) for “exceptional military record,”
including nearly 50 decorations), with United States v. Neil, 903 F.2d 564, 566 (8th Cir. 1990)
(denying departure where defendant’s “eleven years of duty [as a recruiter] within the
continental United States” was “not meaningfully distinguishable from the work history of
steadily employed individuals”). See also United States v. Peters, 978 F.2d 166, 171 (5th Cir.
1992) (affirming receipt of two Purple Hearts and Distinguished Flying Cross not extraordinary
enough to warrant departure); United States v. Cantu, 12 F.3d 1506, 1516 (9th Cir. 1993)
(holding district court erred in finding it could not depart, in sentence for possession of firearm by a felon, on account of defendant’s “grave affliction” after serving in Vietnam); United States v. Risse, 83 F.3d 212, 215. 217 (8th Cir. 1996) (affirming departure for diminished capacity where defendant suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Vietnam and pled to use of firearm in drug trafficking).

Nothing about Defendant’s military service rises to this standard. She served for ten
years, all in the United States (San Diego, California and Washington, D.C.), as an
administrative officer, a legal assistant, and a lawyer (having attended law school during her
military career). She saw no combat, and she received only five standard military
commendations in ten years. See Attach 3. Of those, only two were individual awards; the
others were awarded based either on her unit’s performance (the Battle “E” ribbon awarded for unit preparedness for battle) or simply because she was active status during a certain time frame (National Defense Service Medal). As a result, she falls squarely within the rationale of Neil, 903 F.2d at 566, which held that a military recruiter, stationed in the United States, did not warrant a sentencing variance.

Indeed, Defendant’s military service pales in comparison to that of James Hogan’s 23 years of military service, including 80 days of combat in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and over “360 hours of flying time in harsh African environment,” including “numerous sorties into hostile fire zones.” See Attach. 4. During his career, James Hogan received multiple
notable commendations, including a Navy Achievement Medal for being instructor pilot of the
year; a Navy Achievement Medal for volunteering for deployment in Operation Desert Shield &
Storm; a Navy Commendation Medal for a non-wartime deployment to the Arabian Gulf; a
Kuwait Liberation Medal; a Navy Achievement Medal for safely landing a disabled helicopter
on rough seas at dusk; a Defense Meritorious Service Medal presented by the Secretary of
Defense; a Navy Meritorious Service Medal presented by the Secretary of Navy; and a
Meritorious Unit Citation presented by the Secretary of Navy. Id. It would be unjust for
Defendant to receive a variance for her military record in a case in which she obstructed the
search for a decorated combat veteran.

IV. Conclusion
Defendant Abby Hogan engaged in a calculated, systematic scheme of false statements
and obstructive acts designed to impede the investigation into the disappearance of her husband of nearly 24 years, a decorated military veteran, who was serving as a high-ranking Foreign Service Officer at the time of his disappearance. Her actions hindered the initial investigation and diverted significant resources from U.S. law enforcement as well as their Dutch and Antillean counterparts. Her false statements and destruction of evidence have denied answers and closure to James Hogan’s family, including his four children.

WHEREFORE, the United States respectfully requests that this Honorable Court sentence Defendant to a sentence within the Sentencing Guideline’s range of 27-33 months.

Respectfully submitted,
PAMELA C. MARSH
United States Attorney
F.C. WILLIAMS
Assistant U. S. Attorney
LANNY A. BREUER
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
/s/ Teresa A. Wallbaum
Teresa A. Wallbaum
Senior Trial Attorney
U.S. Department of Justice
Human Rights & Special Prosecutions Sect.
John C. Keeney Bldg., Suite 200
10th & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 616-5193
Date: July 27, 2012 Teresa.wallbaum@usdoj.gov


CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished
by electronic filing to: Gilbert A. Schaffnit, Esq., counsel for defendant, on this 27th day of
July, 2012.

Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Teresa A. Wallbaum
Teresa A. Wallbaum

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The first email was deleted between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10
The second email was deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W)

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Both of the following emails were deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)

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8/16/2009 Abby Hogan flies from Curacao through Miami to Pensacola, Florida

First email below, not deleted as of 1/15/10

Second email below, document says deleted between 1/30/09 and 1/15/10 but I think they meant deleted between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10

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8/28/2009 - Abby Hogan flies from Florida to Curacao

All of the following were deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)

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First email not deleted as of 1/15/10
Second email deleted between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10
Third email deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)
Fourth email deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)
Facebook message from Abby to Michael


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Facebook message
Email deleted between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10

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Both of the following were deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)

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All of the following emails were deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

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Email #24 was deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

Email #25 was deleted between 9/30/2009 and 1/15/2010 from Abby's yahoo account; and was also deleted from Jim Hogan's email account between 9/30 and 10/22/2009

Email #26 was deleted between 9/30/2009 and 1/15/2010 from Abby's yahoo account; and was also deleted from Jim Hogan's email account between 9/30 and 10/22/2010

Email #27 was deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

Email #28 was deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

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Email #29 Deleted between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10 from Abby Hogan's Yahoo account, also deleted from Jim Hogan's email account between 9/30 and 10/22/10

Email #30 Deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)

Email #31 Deleted before 9/30/09, (provided by Mike W.)

9/24/2009 07:57 - After arriving at work, Jim Hogan logs onto his wife's Facebook page and accesses two other Facebook profiles (the names are blacked out, one has an initial W. and the other has a last name initial G.)


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Email #31 continued here from last post, was deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

Email #32 Deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

Email #33-36 were all forwarded to Jim Hogan's email account.  They were all deleted from Jim Hogan's email account before 9/30, were found in Abby Hogan's sent folder on 9/30/09; and deleted from the sent folder between 9/30/09 and 1/15/10.

Email #37 Deleted before 9/30/2009, (provided by Mike W.)

9/24/2009 21:02 - Facebook message from Jim to his stepdaughter W. "Great talking with you..."

(This is also the night Jim leaves the house for the last time)

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Interesting stuff to say the least!    Thank you for posting the documents and all your work on this texasmom.  ::bee::

You're welcome MuffyBee!   ::HelloKitty:: ::bee::

There's a lot more.  After reading so much yesterday, I just sat here shocked and numb for a really long time.

 ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

A lot more???!!   ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

IMO, yes.  The remaining emails from the court document were sent while the search was going on for James Edward Hogan and iirc a few were months later.

Keep that in mind.