Former President Charles Taylor who is serving a life sentence in the UK after conviction of crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone has past links to Tyler his former wife and current Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor Charles Brumskine (a lawyer and close advisor of Taylor's) and Benoni Urey a candidate who may stand a reasonable chance in a possible run-off against either Boakai or Weah...
Benoni Urey a millionaire media magnate who owns newspapers a TV and a radio station registered the All Liberian Party in early August immediately dominating political discussions in Monrovia...
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Several leading supporters including her former Deputy Finance Minister Francis Dunbar abandoned her Unity Party and declared support for Benoni Urey...
No such issues afflict Benoni Urey who until December was subject to a United Nations' travel ban and assets freeze because of his past relationship with former President and now convicted war criminal Charles Taylor (AC Vol 43 No 9 UN gumshoes in Taylorland)...
Heavily armed ERU officers shut down Love FM which is owned by Benoni Urey a confidant of ex-President Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor and a key CDC supporter; King’s FM owned by George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah Tubman’s ex-international footballer running mate; and Shatta FM and Power FM owned by Aaron Kollie journalist and friend of Taylor...
In October she appointed Benoni Urey and Christmas Lawrence once associates of Taylor as acting mayors of rural towns...
Other government revenues from the registry passed through the Bureau of Maritime Affairs and frequently disappeared under the stewardship of Benoni Urey a Taylor associate nicknamed 'Goldfinger' for his financial wizardry...
His cousin Benoni Urey close to Taylor is under a UN travel ban accused of embezzling millions from the state...
It's said that individuals linked to Taylor (such as former aide Benoni Urey's wife) are bidding for contracts to supply the new army...
tried to examine the books of the Bureau of Maritime Affairs controlled by Taylor's long-time business partner Benoni Urey it was told that the generator had 'broken down' and would be repaired only after the Panel had left Liberia...
