APPENDICES
APPENDIX I: PRESS STATEMENT OF LARRY SINCLAIR,
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON DC, JUNE 18, 2008
Good afternoon, my name is Larry Sinclair and I am a former recreational drug user and
trafficker, a convicted felon for crimes of forgery, bad checks and theft by check. I am also an
American who loves this country and I cannot stay silent regarding Barack Obama knowing what I
know.
Today I will discharge my obligation as a citizen to witness this knowledge to you and raise
questions for others to investigate and consider. I am going to briefly describe my background, my
experience with Senator Obama in 1999, what appears to me to be a coordinated effort to discredit
me and finally a list of questions. After this brief statement, I will take and try to answer any
reasonable questions. Background
I am 46 years old and I currently reside in Duluth, MN. I am a US Citizen, and I have made
mistakes in my lifetime. I have been convicted and served prison sentences for writing bad checks,
forging checks, using stolen credit card numbers in Arizona, Florida and Colorado. These event’s
occurred over twenty (20) years ago between 1980 thru 1986. After going public on the internet
with these claims against Senator Obama earlier this year, I became aware of a warrant out of
Florida from 1986 which I have resolved and it has now been dismissed. I also have an active
“Colorado Only” warrant for alleged “Theft and Forgery”. I am not ignoring this warrant but am
addressing it with the Court in Colorado as well as with the DA’s office. I have a pending motion to
dismiss this warrant which I am waiting to have calendared by the Colorado Court.
I have lived and worked under three different names. My birth name is Lawrence W. Sinclair.
Later on, I had my name legally changed first to La-Rye A. Silvas, and then La-Rye Vizcarra Avila.
The last two were legal name changes granted by the court in Penal County Superior Court,
Florence Arizona. I legally returned to my birth name in the Fremont County District court, Canon
City, Colorado in 1997. Obama Incident
I flew out of Colorado Springs, Colorado to Chicago on November 2, 1999, arriving in O’Hare
early in the morning of November 3, 1999. I went to the Chicago area to attend the graduation of
my god son (my best friend’s son) from basic training from the Great Lakes Navy Training Center.
I made reservations at the Comfort Inn and Suites in Gurnee, IL based on location to the Navy
Training center. On November 5, 1999, I hired the services of Five Star Limo. I had hired them for
both November 5 and November 6. On November 6, 1999, I asked the limo driver – whose name I
now reveal for the first time – Paramjit Multani, if he knew anyone who would like to socialize and
show me Chicago. Paramjit Multani understood that I was not looking for someone who knew
Chicago and would enjoy socializing. Paramjit Multani said he knew someone who was a friend of
his.
On November 6, 1999 after picking me up at the Hotel in Gurnee– and this is significant –
Paramjit Multani used his cellphone to make a call. That call was made to then-Illinois State
Senator Barack Obama to set up an introduction between me and Senator Obama. Upon arriving at
the bar and exiting the Limo, Senator Obama was standing next to Paramjit Multani and I was