presidential palace before the earthquake. parts of it the front of it just crumbled, collapsed. by haiti s building standards, this was probably one of the most secure buildings to understand why haiti was so poor and ill equipped to deal with the dissaser on the scale, you have to follow the trail of core runs that robbed haiti over the years. the dale leads back to papa doc, and his son who helped rule this country. abbie boudreau is keeping them honest. reporter: we have come to paris in search of the man who wrecked haiti, the man whose family stole as much as $1 billion from one of the neediest countries in the world. from the $500 million we documented, which are probably half of the money which has been embezzled by him and his wife and the accomplices, we have evidence they transferred abroad $120 million. reporter: gilles august is the attorney hired to get money back and he is talking about this man, jean claude duvalier,
wrecked haiti, the man whose family stole as much as $1 billion from one of the neediest countries in the world. from the $500 million we documented, which are probably half of the money which has been embezzled by mr. duvalier, his wife and the accomplices. we have evidence they transferred abroad $120 million. reporter: gilles august is the attorney hired to get the money back and he is talking about this man, jean claude duvalier, known as baby doc. but it was really a father and son act. baby doc s father was a brutal dictator, known as papa doc duvalier. he began their nearly 30-year crime spree in the 1950s. they had a vicious secret militia, the tan tan makoot, roughly translated, it means the boogiemen. under the reign of terror, as many as 60,000 haitians were killed. after his father died, baby doc took larceny to a new level, especially after he married his glamorous wife, michelle.