| SDNY US Attorney Lets UN
Johns and Pimps Like Lorenzo Go Free Jailing
Only Bribers Ho and Ng
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 10 – After beginning a now
stalled two-case inquiry into
the widening corruption of the
United Nations, the then-US
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York said at a
confernce on St. Andrew's
Place that the goal was to
find out if corruption is
everyday business at the UN.
It is.
But now
after the US Attorney's office
lavished praise and time
served sentence recommendation
on bribe-taker Francis Lorenzo
even as a person shown as
trial continues to use the UN
to sell fraudulent coins, the
question has turned back on
the US Attorney's office
itself.
In
essence, the decision has been
to go after the prostitutes
and not the johns (those in
the UN who take the bribes,
and continue to) or the pimps
and middlemen.
The latter
category encompasses Lorenzo
for Ng Lap Seng and Chiekh
Gadio, given a non prosecution
agreement and now back in
action, for Patrick 'Ho and
CEFC China Energy, linked to
current UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres through
Lisbon-based Gulbenkian
Foundation whose payments to
Guterres are omitted from his
public financial disclosure
covering 2016.
Even
Ban Ki-mooon was not directly
linked to the UN's bribers.
The UN has become more
corrupt, and has openly used
immunity and censorship of
Press to get away with it. The
Office's response has been, as
of 8 November 2019, to further
defer sentencing even of a
person guilty in the Ng Lap
Seng case, and praise and
shake hands with UN briber
Lorenzo.
Lorenzo
used his position as UN
Ambassador for the Dominican
Republic to take and pay
bribes for a Macau "UN South
South Development Conference
Center proposed by now
incarcerated Ng Lap Seng.
On
November 8 Lorenzo was given a
sentence of time served, which
was twenty days in detention,
by U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Vernon S. Broderick.
It was what the US Attorney's
Office of Geoffrey S. Berman
essentially recommended,
calling Lorenzo a model
cooperating witness. This
despite acknowledging that
Lorenzo had to "re-plead"
guilty when it emerged he had
not disclosed his receipt of
bribes. Assistant
US Attorney Douglas S. Zolkind
at sentencing praised Lorenzo
for example for always
appearing in a three-piece
suit.
It emerges
that this same prosecution
team has asked for yet another
six months delay in sentencing
another briber in the case,
Heidi Hong Piao. The
prosecutors "request that the
control date for the
sentencing of the defendant,
presently scheduled for
October 25, 2019, be adjourned
for six
months.
Respectfully
submitted,
GEOFFREY S. BERMAN United
States
Attorney
By: s/ Daniel C. Richenthal
Daniel C. Richenthal Janis M.
Echenberg Douglas S. Zolkind."
Untransparent, like the
office's refusal to release
their exhibits against crypto
currency fraud OneCoin even as
yet another fraudulent coin is
sold with UN images. We'll
have more on this.
On November 9 Judge Broderick
before giving Francis Lorenzo
the time served sentence said
there was a need for general
deterence. But neither he nor
Zolkind even mentioned an
after arising UN bribery case,
for which Patrick Ho of CEFC
China Energy was convicted by
SDNY Judge Loretta A.
Preska.
Judge Broderick
did impose two years of
supervised release, and 250
hours of community service.
Afterward Inner City Press
sought to ask Lorenzo a
question but was told by his
lawyerBrian H. Bieber that
Lorenzo would not answer
questions.
So Inner City Press asked
Bieber how Lorenzo would do
his community service and when
Lorenzo last saw and
communicated with Carlos
Garcia, the former El Salvador
ambassador shown in the trial
before Judge Broderick to have
helped launder money for
Lorenzo.
Bieber
said he would ask Lorenzo, and
perhaps get back to Inner City
Press, which has reported and
will continue to report on
these cases. This case is US
v. Lorenzo, 15-cr-706
(Broderick).
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