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This is not going to look good in Haitian court: desperate for money... comes to Haiti.... caught trying to transport children accross the border...

Woman Detained in Haiti Also Due in Idaho Court
By ROBERT MACKEY

Laura Silsby, who led a Baptist group on a mission that resulted in all 10 members of her team being charged with kidnapping on Thursday by Haitian authorities, also faces legal troubles back home in Boise, Idaho, in the form of two lawsuits.

According to a report in her hometown newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, Ms. Silsby, the founder and C.E.O. of PersonalShopper.com, is being sued by a former employee for unpaid wages and by a law firm for unpaid fees. The Statesman reports that she is due in court next Wednesday in connection with the suit by her former marketing director — a jury trial in that case is scheduled to start on Feb. 22 — and again in March in a suit filed by a local law firm.

The Boise newspaper says that the suit filed by her former employee charges that Ms. Silsby, who was named eWomenNetwork’s “International Businesswoman of the Year” in 2006, “repeatedly told plaintiff that she had investors ‘committed,’ that the money was being ‘wired,’ and that investors were going to be providing funds,” so that she could met her payroll obligations.

On Thursday the Idaho Department of Labor confirmed to The Lede that 14 claims for nonpayment of wages were filed against Personal Shopper Inc. in 2008 and 2009.

The Idaho newspaper also notes that Ms. Silsby has been sued four other times in the past three years by businesses seeking payment.

As The Lede noted on Wednesday, news organizations, including The New York Times, CNN and The Associated Press, have reported that many of the children with the Americans were not orphans, as Ms. Silsby had initially claimed.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...n-idaho-court/

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I had to laugh... the Times articles show these photos with the description:

"Laura Silsby, center, who led a Baptist group to Haiti, smiled on Thursday despite having just learned that she and her nine team members would be charged with kidnapping."





Uh... girls.... a word of advice: don't smile for the camera when you're in a foriegn country and have just been charged with kidnapping (or murdering your roommate).

Just don't.


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