{"id":188261,"date":"2025-01-10T01:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-minister-jones-fraud-an-insult-from-boakais-regime-to-u-s-embassy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:21:55","slug":"liberia-minister-jones-fraud-an-insult-from-boakais-regime-to-u-s-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-minister-jones-fraud-an-insult-from-boakais-regime-to-u-s-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Minister Jones&#8217; &#8216;Fraud&#8217;, an Insult From Boakai&#8217;s Regime to U.S. Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">LIBERIA&#8217;S DEPUTY FINANCE Minister, Bill McGill Jones, has dragged the Boakai administration into a disgraceful scandal, one that now threatens Liberia&#8217;s fragile relationship with a key international partner, the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">JONES USED A FALSIFIED U.S. Embassy letter to justify a highly questionable $322,441 contract, including $244,441 for painting and $78,000 for structural assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">THIS BLATANT FORGERY not only undermines Liberia&#8217;s procurement laws but also tarnishes the trust that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501090165.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERIA&#8217;S DEPUTY FINANCE Minister, Bill McGill Jones, has dragged the Boakai administration into a disgraceful scandal, one that now threatens Liberia&#8217;s fragile relationship with a key international partner, the United States. JONES USED A FALSIFIED U.S. Embassy letter to justify a highly questionable $322,441 contract, including $244,441 for painting and $78,000 for structural assessment. THIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12935,1946,8666,13487,10519,4712,1107,5941,257,11801,254,2282],"class_list":["post-188261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakais","tag-embassy","tag-fraud","tag-insult","tag-jones","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-regime","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}