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By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UN GATE NOW SDNY, Nov 7 – How corrupt is the United Nations? Francis Lorenzo paid bribes to UN President of the General Assembly John Ashe, and took bribes and laundering them through Carlos Garcia - and now the current Dominican Republic Ambassador to the UN supports him in a letter to the court.

  Now the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York is proposing it seems a sentence of time served - virtually nothing - for Lorenzo, rather than the 78 years he would face under the guidelines at his November 8 sentencing before SDNY Judge Vernon S. Broderick. It is an outrage.

  Lorenzo lied to the prosecutors, about himself receiving bribes. Tellingly, one of Lorenzo's partners in crime Carlos Garcia, is still using the UN's name and connections with UNSG Antonio Guterres to sell fraudulent coins, something on which the US Attorney's Office has done nothing despite cryptically telling Judge Broderick they met with Lorenzo in October 2019.

   A November 7 filing has a restitution order for $243,965 (even that joint and several with Jeff C. Yin), and a forfeiture order. Basically, it's pay to play as always at the UN. Inner City Press, physically ousted and now banned from the UN by Guterres for 492 days and counting for exposing UN corruption, will have more, more much, on this.

  From Lorenzo's sentencing submission: "Mr. Lorenzo was the Deputy Ambassador for the Dominican Republic to the United Nations. While this title is noble, it still does adequately reflect the service-centered life that Mr. Lorenzo has lived. In 2000, Mr. Lorenzo established the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic. The primary focus of the organization was to promote the value and principle of the United Nations and highlight the importance of education and technology as a tool for sustainable development. Beyond establishing the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Lorenzo also served at various times as the organization’s president as well as its vice president. It is important to note that Mr. Lorenzo started this organization for no personal benefit to himself, but rather to serve the people of the Dominican Republic. After creating the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Lorenzo spent much of his time empowering youth around the globe and raising awareness around issues pertaining to education, people with disability, the elderly, and health care—specifically, Mr. Lorenzo spent a considerable amount of time raising awareness and funds to combat the proliferation of HIV/AIDS. Most recently, Mr. Lorenzo has been working with several organizations in the area of health to bring awareness at the national and regional level about the importance of cancer prevention to save lives. Case 1:15-cr-00706-VSB Document 915 Filed 10/29/19 Page 8 of 41 9 For his good works, Mr. Lorenzo has been recognized at the international, national, regional, and state levels. Below please find a non-exhaustive list of awards received by Mr. Lorenzo: Honor Awarding Body Year International Achievement Award Morris County HispanicAmerican Chamber of Commerce 2016 Joint Legislative Resolution Commending Mr. Lorenzo on Receiving the International Achievement Award2 Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey 2016 Peace Through Education Award3 Montessori Model United Nations 2016 Award of Recognition4 National Council for the Dominican Communities Oversea CONDEX 2013 Humanitarian Award5 Covenant House California 2012 Certificate of Commendation6 Morris County Prosecutor’s Office 2010 Government Advocate of the Year Award Morris County HispanicAmerican Chamber of Commerce 2010 Joint Legislative Commendation7 Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey 2010 Certificate of Recognition8  Timothy Dougherty, Mayor of Morristown, New Jersey 2010 Citation Commending Mr. Lorenzo on Receiving the Government Advocate of the Year9 Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen, United States House Representative 2010 Senate Commendation10 Anthony R. Bucco, New Jersey Senator 2009."

   This as on October 29, while Inner City Press which exposed this UN bribery and the following case by Patrick Ho of CEFC China Energy which tried to buy the oil company of Gulbenkian whose payments to Antonio Guterres were not disclosed by Guterrres remained banned, a former South South News-er stood at the UNSC stakeout, paid by the UN. We'll have more on all this.

Vivian Wang, the money woman for convicted UN briber Ng Lap Seng's South South News, was sentenced to time served on June 26 by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge George B. Daniels, who did not preside over the trial of Ng Lap Seng.

 On August 9, Ng Lap Seng's long shot appeal of his conviction was shot down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. From the majority decision, this: "Insofar as the district court nevertheless charged an 'official act' quid pro quo for the § 666 crimes, that error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because the jury, having found Ng guilty under the higher McDonnell official act standard, would certainly have found him guilty under a proper instruction omitting that unnecessary standard." That was District Judge Broderick, whose low ceiling-ed courtroom Inner City Press now covers nearly daily, both because banned from the UN for uncovering its corruption and more and more interested in the workings of his Federal court.

 Now Francis Lorenzo, UN briber, has had his sentencing AGAIN pushed back. Here's from the August 30 letter to Judge Broderick: "Re: United States v. Francis Lorenzo, 15 Cr. 706 (VSB) Dear Judge Broderick: With consent of the defendant in the above-captioned matter, the Government respectfully writes to request that sentencing, presently scheduled for September 12, 2019, be adjourned to November 8, 2019, at 11:30 a.m., which the Government understands works for the Court. The adjournment will permit the parties additional time to prepare for sentencing. Respectfully submitted, GEOFFREY S. BERMAN United States Attorney By: s/ Daniel C. Richenthal Daniel C. Richenthal Janis M. Echenberg Douglas S. Zolkind Assistant United States Attorneys."

  And, to show how increasingly corrupt the UN is under Antonio Guterres, who is linked to CEFC China Energy and threw Inner City Press out of the UN for reporting on his links,
a denial of accreditation with no reasoning other than that accreditation had previously been revoked:

"From: malu <malu@un.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
Subject: U.N. eAccreditation request for Matthew Lee Ref # M5413398 has been declined
To: Inner City Press:

Greetings Matthew Lee from Inner City Press,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M5413398, has been declined for the following reason: Media accreditation was withdrawn on 17 August 2018."

  This is Kafka-esque, and corrupt. We will have more, much more, on this.

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