Shocking revelations coming out of the Bahamian-based lawsuit between Lyford Cay neighbors, Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard and billionaire hedge fund king Louis Bacon.
It sounds like the script for a made-for-TV movie. Rogue FBI agents, dirty cops and sordid undercover investigations.
The shocking revelations have surfaced over the past week as part of the civil court battle between Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard and billionaire hedge fund king Louis Bacon. Both men own residences in Lyford Cay, the exclusive gated community on New Providence Island in The Bahamas.
Retired FBI Agent Gerard “Jerry” Forrester was the FBI’s Miami liaison officer in the Caribbean during the 1990s. And he’s got some secrets to share that you won’t see on his Facebook page.
In secretly recorded conversations, Forrester said that on more than one occasion he arrested Bahamian criminal defendants in South Florida and illegally sent them back to the Bahamas without any formal review of their cases in U.S. courts.
In one such incident, Forrester said he arrested a Bahamian murder suspect in Miami and held the man briefly in jail before putting him on a commercial airline to The Bahamas. The man was later killed while in Bahamian police custody.
“I kidnapped him back to Nassau,” Forrester is quoted as saying in an article in the Miami Herald.
The secret recordings were made by a former Scotland Yard detective named Alick Morrison, who was allegedly working as a private investigator for Mr Nygard.
Forrester, who currently acts as a private investigator, now works with the former Bahamian cop who was cleared in the 1998 killing of the defendant in police custody mentioned above.
Mr Nygard hired the private investigator to find out if there was any truth to his suspicions that Mr Bacon was behind the unflattering profile of Nygard that aired last year on Canadian television.
Mr Nygard is suing Bacon and others for defamation.
