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Former US Embassy Staff To Plead Guilty July 8 To Drugging & Filming Women in Mexico

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DDC Courthouse, June 8 – A former US State Department official in Mexico has reached a guilty plea agreement with DOJ and will allocute on July 8 to the crimes of drugging and abusing women, Inner City Press learned in a brief DDC proceeding on June 8, tweeted here.

  Brian Jeffrey Raymond was arrested in San Diego, to which he fled after leaving his job in at the US Embassy in Mexico City. Mexican police responding to a call found a woman naked and screaming from the balcony of an embassy-leased apartment in Mexico City. Investigators found more than 400 photos and videos on Raymond’s iCloud account in which he appears to be filming unconscious women, according to the docket. Now is he pleading guilty, and Inner City Press will cover it.

  Compare this to a UN staff member belatedly charged with drugging and raping women while working for the UN in Iraq. In that case, the UN of Antonio Guterres helped its staffer flee Iraq and move to New Jersey, where it seems the abuses continued.

  UN former staff member Karim Elkorany was arrested then freed on $500,000 bond in connection with drugging and raping women in Iraq while working for the UN.

   The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York states that Elkorany, "a former communications specialist with the United Nations in Iraq, was charged in an Indictment in Manhattan federal court with two counts of making false statements to special agents of the FBI in an effort to conceal his drugging and sexual assault of multiple women while he worked for the UN...In or around December 2016, Victim-1 reported the sexual assault to the UN.  The UN initiated an investigation, through which ELKORANY was notified of the substance of Victim-1’s allegations against him."

  The UN claims it has a zero tolerance and blacklisting policy for sexual abuse, but despite a victim complaining to the UN in this case, on Wednesday Elkorany was leaving freely in New Jersey when he was arrested.

 As exclusively reported by Inner City Press which has been banned from the UN for its questions, Elkorany that first day was released on a bond to be signed by his father and brother, but allowed to leave home to work from 8 am to 6 pm.

  Elkorany was listed as a UN "Communications Specialist" -- censor Melissa Fleming's forte -- on press releases about Toyota, here. He was interviewed on UN Radio, here. But of course, UN Spokesperson Staphane Dujarric claims he knows nothing about it and that Guterres has a "principled position."

 Inner City Press is asking the UN, On UN staffer Karim Elkorany, indicted in SDNY for lying to FBI about drugging and raping women while working for UN in Iraq, immediately state what the outcome of the victim complaining to the UN was - and why Elkorany was back at liberty in New Jersey.

This is specifically asked in the context of this statement: "UNDP participates in a joint project with other UN agencies to maintain a system-wide database called "Clear Check" to ensure that former personnel involved in substantiated cases of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse with one entity in the UN system cannot be employed by another entity." So what did the UN actually do, other than transport a rapist from New Jersey to Iraq then bringing him home to live free? Watch this site.

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