African Development Company

created by pingouin
(thing) by pingouin (4.4 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:43:31
A mining and agriculture company, Pat Robertson the sole owner. It used The Flying Hospital, ostensibly a charitable-works arm of the Christian Broadcasting Network, to export diamonds from Zaire - an "investment opportunity" opened up by Robertson's friendship with the country's dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, who was at the time dying and desperate for attention from the West to stem the rising tide of rebellion in his country. Mobutu didn't live long enough for ADC to become profitable.
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