VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- If there were such a thing as
a process server's academy award, Freedom Watch Chairman and Chief Legal
Counsel Larry Klayman most likely would be nominated for one. (
http://www.freedomwatchusa.org ).
After thwarted by OPEC security from serving his complaint charging the
cartel with illegal price fixing, market division and collusion in agreeing
to lower oil production, Klayman sprang out from a line of TV press to
serve a complaint on an unwitting OPEC oil minister on his way to be
interviewed following OPEC's emergency meeting here.
Klayman said the cartel's strategy is designed to raise oil prices
globally and ultimately the cost of gasoline at pumps across America at a
most unpropitious time with a depression looming.
The OPEC oil minister, Darlis Palacios Guerrero of Ecuador, graciously
accepted service of the complaint probably thinking it was a gift, Klayman
said. "But the gift I want to give to OPEC ministers is a court injunction
for perpetrating on the world a form of economic terrorism by using oil as
a weapon against our staggering economy," he added.
Klayman, an attorney known for taking on powerful groups and
individuals, including the administrations of Presidents Clinton and Bush
on behalf of Judicial Watch, another public interest group he founded, was
ordered off OPEC property by an OPEC official flanked by security and
police officers. The official refused to give his name.
About being kicked off OPEC property, Klayman said, "That's the way
these people operate. They continually display an arrogant disregard for
the law."
Earlier Klayman held a press conference outside the cartel's quarters
where he waved a gas pump nozzle at OPEC calling the nozzle a "smoking gun"
that ties OPEC to the current financial disaster in the U.S. Their
artificial run-up in oil prices earlier this year set the stage for the
economic problems we're now having, he said. "OPEC has bled billions out of
our economy already and now wants to try to bleed us again, while our
economy is so week and on the edge of collapse."
The media event was organized on behalf of Washington, DC-based Freedom
Watch by TransMedia Group ( http://www.transmediagroup.com ).
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TransMedia Group
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