The names of both Prime Minister Perry Christie and Deputy Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis have been called liberally by Canadian investor Peter Nygard and others involved in what is purported to be a series of secretly acquired videos and sworn depositions connected to a complicated court matter involving Nygard's Lyford Cay neighbor Louis Bacon and others.

In the recordings, Nygard lambastes the prime minister for what he suggested was indecisive behavior, saying at one point, Christie "lacks [f_____] courage".

Assertions
Assertions relating to an alleged murder plot against certain members of the Save the Bays group  are contained in a detailed, 410 page affidavit from John Joseph DiPaolo, an investigator hired out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In a secretly recorded meeting that reportedly took place on December 11, 2015, one of the "gang members", allegedly hired by Nygard, to whom DiPaolo referred purported to inform Nygard that Christie had allegedly given assurances that "the land part" was being dealt with on Nygard's behalf.

Again, on the tape, one of the men asserted that Davis had told them to watch Nygard's back, "because you's the sponsor and we's the muscle". The tapes are riddled with profanity, much of it uttered by Nygard himself.

At one point in one of the meetings, Nygard says, "All right, I'm going to meet with him, I don't know if he said tomorrow or the next day he comes back.

"He said he's going somewhere but I could not hear but ah, I'm leaving Thursday, and I want to get some [expletive] action this week. I've got a meeting with the Deputy PM as well and see what the hell he's doing because the PM is [expletive] up the deputy PM's [expletive] future, you see.

"Even if he decides not to run any more, and that's what he said, it's Brave who is going to get sacrificed here, and Brave [expletive] well knows it."

And later: "I think we're all united in an issue that puts huge pressure on PM now from every [expletive] Cabinet minister from Gibson, Shane, you guys, everybody.

"Without you guys and me they lose the election as you have control of the field and I have control over the [expletive] finances, you know."

The tapes, depositions and hundreds of other pages of material have all been included in the Supreme Court filing.

Bacon, Freeport lawyer Fred Smith, environmentalists Joseph Darville and Romauld Ferreira and Bain and Grants Town activist Rev. C.B. Moss have together filed a writ in the Supreme Court against Nygard and lawyer Keod Smith seeking an order restraining them from "seeking to or conspiring to murder, assassinate, kill, injure, threaten, harass, incite to violence, follow, surveil, threaten to harm, harm, harass, intimidate, bring harm to, cause odium, contempt, hate or ridicule against and or towards the plaintiffs or each or any of them."

Injunction
The five plaintiffs also ask the court for an injunction to prevent Nygard and Smith from "arranging or organizing any meetings, parades, Junkanoo rushes, street parties, flatbed truck drive along, demonstrations, beach parties, get togethers, cook-outs, protests, rallies or gatherings in any public place or otherwise against the plaintiffs or each or any of them."

The plaintiffs have asked the court to bar the pair from "carrying out or causing to be carried out any of the acts...against anyone closely affiliated with the plaintiffs or any of them including but not limited to the plaintiffs' or each of their respective family members, employees, agents, friends and business associates."

The shocking filing is accompanied by DiPaolo's extremely detailed affidavit.

DiPaolo is the president of The D&R Agency LLC based in Fort Lauderdale, and explains in his affidavit that he was among several investigators retained in February 2015 to "investigate the genesis of several events, demonstrations and well-organized 'hate rallies' held in New Providence in 2013 and 2014 and which were organized at the behest of Lyford Cay resident Peter Nygard for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, threatening and causing harm, distress and anxiety to the plaintiffs."

"The investigation team of which I was a member was composed primarily of retired FBI and retired Scotland Yard professionals and Bahamian investigation and security professionals," he said.

Affidavit
DiPaolo asserted that over the last two to three years, Nygard masterminded an aggressive campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence against individuals in The Bahamas, including the five plaintiffs, "whom he appears to have viewed as his personal enemies".

According to the investigator, the campaign included a conspiracy with at least two Nassau-based "gang members" to have Louis Bacon, Frederick Smith QC, Pericles Maillis and Tribune Business Editor Neil Hartnell murdered.

"These and other relevant facts have been affirmed in sworn statements provided to us by two of the gang members... along with audio and video copies of five covertly recorded meetings...in which violent and aggressive acts were discussed," he said.

"These acts of harassment, intimidation and violence all took place against the backdrop of what has been described to us by the plaintiffs as high-profile public interest litigation between, on the one side, a non-profit environmental group with which the plaintiffs are affiliated (The Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay commonly referred to as "Save the Bays") and, on the other side... Nygard and Keod Smith, and senior members of the cabinet of the Government of The Bahamas," DiPaolo added.

"Our investigation uncovered, and the chronology set out in the remainder of this affidavit vividly demonstrates, that alongside the defendants' efforts to derail and delay the various court proceedings brought by Save the Bays to seek to address their activities at Nygard Cay and Jaws Beach, Nygard and Keod Smith have conspired to conduct an audacious campaign to violently decapitate Save the Bays by attacking its directors, attorneys and supporters," he added.

"The plaintiffs have been the victims of a coordinated and vicious campaign of intimidation, harassment, vandalism, hate rallies involving thousands of people, death threats, fire bombings and physical attacks. In addition, the plaintiffs have reason to believe that there was an assassination plot involving two of the plaintiffs," DiPaolo swore.

By K. Quincy Parker

Guardian Staff

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