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MINISTER in the Office of the Attorney General Saddam Hosein unleashed a bombshell in the Parliament on June 18, during the mid-year budget review as he named several lawyers who received millions of dollars in legal fees from that office by the then PNM government.

He claimed that over the past ten years, over two successive PNM administrations, one state entity – the Office of the Attorney General alone – spent $1 billion in legal fees.

The names include the President’s husband, a former AG, a current independent senator, a current MP, two former state board chairmen and former prime minister Dr Rowley’s personal lawyer.