| UN Briber Francis Lorenzo
Used Africa ICF Fund Now Obscure SDNY Claims
Process
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 23 – 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.
Inner City Press then reported
that convicted and sentenced
UN briber Francis Lorenzo has
been spotted right back in UN
world, at an event for the new
Holy See / Papal envoy to the
UN no less.
Now,
typical of UN corruption, this
notice from the US Attorney's
Office, apparently hoping no
one will claim it, including
the Africans whose needs were
used to corruption raise money
through and for the UN: "COURT
CASE NUMBER: S6 15 CR. 706
(VSB); NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Notice is hereby given that on
December 10, 2019, in the case
of U.S. v. Francis Lorenzo
a/k/a "Frank Lorenzo", Court
Case Number S6 15 CR. 706
(VSB), the United States
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
entered an Order condemning
and forfeiting the following
property to the United States
of America: Any and all funds
in Bank of America Account
number 0048 3364 3656, held in
the name of Africa ICT
Investment Fund
(20-FBI-002304) The United
States hereby gives notice of
its intent to dispose of the
forfeited property in such
manner as the United States
Attorney General may direct.
Any person, other than the
defendant(s) in this case,
claiming interest in the
forfeited property must file
an ancillary petition within
60 days of the first date of
publication (March 13, 2020)
of this Notice on this
official government internet
web site, pursuant to Rule
32.2 of the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure and 21
U.S.C. § 853(n)(1). The
ancillary petition must be
filed with the Clerk of the
Court, United States District
Court, 500 Pearl Street, Room
120, New York, NY 10007, and a
copy served upon Assistant
United States Attorney
Alexander J. Wilson, One St.
Andrew's Plaza, New York, NY
10007." We'll have more on
this.
Back on February
28, the US Attorney's Office
asked to hand money to
Lorenzo, whose already back in
the entirely UNreformed UN.
The order, apparently to hand
$197,153.10 to Lorenzo who
took bags of cash and had El
Salvador's unindicted then
Ambassador now Guterres Gold
Coin salesman Carlos Garcia
help launder them. For what
purpose? The US Attorney's
foray into UN world as come to
this? We'll have more on this.
He
was with a delegate from the
Dominican Republic Mission to
the UN, which Lorenzo and Ng
used to pay bribes to UN
officials and correspondents;
he spoke with among others a
staffer of Oman's mission.
This is how corrupt the UN of
Antonio Guterres is: the
convicted UN briber is right
back in the game (Guterres has
his hand out), while the Press
which exposed the corruption
is banned by Guterres,
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming, now 579 days. These
people are criminals. Watch
this site.
Now on
January 3 Lorenzo's lawyer is
telling Judge Broderick, whose
December 30 order ostensibly
freeing on bond Virgil
Griffith for much less than
bribing the UN has still not
had any effect, that Lorenzo
should be able to travel
freely around the United
States, and that AUSA Daniel
Richenthal consents to that.
Travel for what? Meanwhile the
UN gets more and more corrupt,
banning the Press now 549 days
for asking about Ng and
Lorenzo and Patrick Ho, and
Virgil Griffith, as of the US
Attorney's last (Jan 2) answer
is still in custody. (They
have not answered on January
3).
Time
served 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
lawyer Brian 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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