UN
Briber Vivi Wang Gets Time
Served For Cooperation From
Judge Who Did Not Hear Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 26 – Vivian
Wang, who as
money manager
for convicted
UN briber Ng
Lap Seng's
South South
News made
payments to
disgraced
President of
the UN General
Assembly John
Ashe, was
given a time
served
sentence on
June 26 by
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
George B.
Daniels.
Wang's lawyers
at Goodwin
Proctor, in a
heavily
redacted
sentencing
submission,
stated that
her deceased
husband Forest
Cao "was 57
years old adn
had no known
health
problems of
medical
conditions. No
autopsy was
performed."
It
also says, as
to UN
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe, that
while awaiting
trial on UN
bribery
charges "his
death was
reported as
the result of
a
'weightlifting
accident'
after a
barbell
apparently
crushed his
throat."
After the
sentencing,
Inner City
Press with
covered the Ng
Lap Seng trial
before SDNY
Judge Vernon
Broderick
daily asked
Wang's lawyer
Derek A. Cohen
if he was
implying that
Forest Cao and
John Ashe were
killed, and
why he had so
heavily
redacted this
sentencing
submission.
"It
speaks for
itself," Cohen
said by the
elevators.
Likewise the
Assistant U.S.
Attorney on
the case Daniel
C. Richenthal
declined
Inner City
Press'
question about
who beyond Ng
Lap Seng Ms.
Wang had
cooperated
against.
Judge
Daniels did
not preside
over the trial
of Ng Lap
Seng. He
accepted the
government's
recommendation
of time served
with very
little
inquiry.
He said as if
by rote that
corruption of
the UN is a
serious
matter. But if
so, why should
a person who
paid bribes in
the UN get
such a light
sentence with
little public
showing of the
benefit of
their
cooperation?
Corruption has
continued at
the UN since
the
prosecution of
Ng Lap Seng,
resulting in
his four year
prison
sentence. A
second,
separately
prosecution
was brought
against
Patrick Ho of
CEFC China
Energy, an
entity
which also
tried to buy
the oil
company of
Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which employed
current UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres as a
compensated
board member.
Neither in the
Ho nor Ng Lap
Seng cases
where any of
the UN
Secretariat
officials
implicated in
the bribery
schemes
prosecuted.
This laxity
can be
contrasted
with another
SDNY
proceeding a
mere hour
later, in
which Judge P.
Kevin Castel
looked behind
the U.S.
Attorney's
Office's 5k1.1
cooperation
letters and
imposed jail
time on the
four siblings,
the Seggermans,
who evaded
taxes. That
underlying
case was USA
v. Little,
12-cr-647
(Castel). This
bifurcated
case is USA
v. Wang,
16-cr-495
(Daniels).
Vivi
Wang helped
bribe the UN,
and on June 26
she got a time
served
sentence for
undefined
cooperation.
Judge Castel
looked behind
the
government's
5K1.1 letter
but Judge
Daniels did
not. And the
UN continues
corrupt. Inner
City Press
will have
more, much
more, on this.
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