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So You Think You’re Getting Real Gold From Dikembe Mutombo…………..??

Found January 16, 2012 on FloppingOut: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Dikembe Mutombo
TEAMS: Houston Rockets

GET THAT WEAK **** OUT, *****!! So THIS is what former NBA center/cookie monster Dikembe Mutombo’s been up to, huh? Trying to get you involved with a BIG TIME gold scam? Not too shabby, bro. Anyone ever hear what Dikembe’s REAL name is…..yeah, it’s this: Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo. No joke. Here is what Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo is being accused of. Mutombo was in New York on a more personal cause — trying to interest a Houston oil executive in a $10 million deal to buy 1,045 pounds of gold from the mines of eastern Congo, the heart of the conflict mineral trade. If Mutombo had reservations about the apparent contradiction between word and deed, he did not show it. He eagerly explained how he and his family had 4 tons of Congolese gold just waiting for a buyer. Enter Kase Lawal. As chairman of CAMAC, a Houston energy company, Lawal knew Mutombo from the latter’s final days with the Houston Rockets — a...
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