Did the daughter of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev use a U.S. investigative firm to pry details out of an $84 million Justice Department bribery probe targeting her father?

It certainly seems so. The New York Times reported today that Dariga Nazarbayeva hired investigative firm, GlobalOptions for just such a purpose.

In a 2003 report produced by GlobalOptions and cited by The Times, the firm stated that they "mined connections at the White House, State Department, Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to learn more about the inquiry."

It might comfort you to know (or it might not) that CIA Director James Woolsey and former FBI Directors William Webster and William Sessions have all been affiliated with GlobalOptions in recent years.

I hear that they're all doing quite well in private practice.

-- MDT

Labels: bribery, Dariga Nazarbayeva, GlobalOptions