Some yet to be established facts and a bit more of the Megaupload New Zealand story - NZHerald.co.nz:
-------------------------
Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom claims Hollywood bosses pressured the US Government to tackle the filesharing website before the raid on his $30 million Auckland mansion.
................. "I do know from a credible source that it was Joe Biden, the best friend of former Senator and MPAA boss Chris Dodd, who ordered his former lawyer and now state attorney Neil MacBride to take Mega down,'' Dotcom told the TorrentFreak website.
"It is interesting that a man by the name of Mike Ellis of MPA Asia, an extradition expert and former superintendent of the Hong Kong police, was also at a meeting with Dodd, all studio bosses and Joe Biden. The same Mike Ellis met with the Minister of Justice Simon Power in New Zealand.''
Mr Power declined Dotcom's application to buy the mansion in Coatesville four months later after officials recommended the sale be approved. The decision came just days after the Crown Law Office started working on the FBI case.
Fellow minister Maurice Williamson had already approved the sale but changed his mind after Mr Power turned Dotcom down. It has since emerged that officials told the ministers of interest in Dotcom by the FBI after a tip from an unknown source to Immigration New Zealand in 2010.
Officials at Immigration NZ and the Overseas Investment Office investigated Megaupload, raising no concerns about its operation. They also investigated Dotcom's wealth, saying it had been earned legitimately.
Prime Minister John Key said Mr Power's rejection of the application was simply because he was conservative and believed it did not have the right feel.'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10817283