| UN Briber Francis Lorenzo
Gets Time Served Despite Second Guilty Plea
While Cooperating
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 8 – Francis 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.
Judge Broderick before giving
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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