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SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 28 – 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  Ng Lap Seng.

On April 6 Ng Lap Seng asked to be release to home confinement, the gilded cage he remained in during and even after trial, with a masseuse behind closed doors and his own armed guards. In the alternative he asks for compassionate relief under the First Step Act, despite not having even exhausted administrative remedies, which has led to denial for poorer defendants who never bribed the UN.

 Then in a heavily redacted filing to Judge Vernon S. Broderick includes a deed in 240 East 47th Street, Dag Hammarskjold Tower and many sealed exhibits.

 Now on April 28, the release of the Chinese billionaire briber of the UN comes closer: "ORDER as to Ng Lap Seng: I am in receipt of Defendant's letter dated April 26, 2020, stating that "[t]he 30-day clock has now expired, rendering the exhaustion issue moot." (Doc. 948.) It is hereby ORDERED that the Government confirm by close of business on April 28, 2020, that the Federal Bureau of Prisons has taken no action on Defendant's request for compassionate release, and that I am therefore free to address the substance of Defendant's motion for compassionate release. (Signed by Judge Vernon S. Broderick on 4/28/2020) (ap)." Petty criminals from under privileged backgrounds in The Bronx remain imprisoned with COVID-19, but the billionaire is knock, knock, knocking on Macao's door. Watch this site.

 On April 10, Assistant US Attorney Daniel Richenthal opposed Ng's motion, stating among other things that "because the defendant is no longer lawfully in the United States, and there accordingly is both an ICE detainer and a judicial order of removal in place, if the defendant's motion were granted, he would be released into the custody of ICE and then flown to China. That is, of course, what he has sought ever since arrest." Just like the next UN briber Patrick Ho, and those who have emerged since to Antonio Guterres, without Richenthal, Zolkind, Berman et al. doing anything, while Guterres bans the Press which asks.

 Now on April 26, this: "Re:  United States v. Ng Lap Seng, 15-cr-706-3 (VSB)    Dear Judge Broderick:     We write to update the Court regarding the administrative exhaustion issue that has been argued by the parties.      Section 3582(c)(1)(A)’s 30-day clock for exhaustion started on March 27, 2020, when Defendant Ng Lap Seng’s § 3583(c)(1)(A) petition was faxed to the warden of his facility.  See 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) (authorizing a court to grant compassionate release after “the lapse of 30 days from the receipt of [a § 3583(c)(1)(A)] request by the warden of the defendant’s facility”).  The 30-day clock has now expired, rendering the exhaustion issue moot."

  Inner City Press, which as it has covered UN corruption expanding under Antonio Guterres who to hide his own links to it banned the Press and refuses all of its questions, even about the UN spreading Coronavirus in South Sudan with a bus for national staff without any social distancing, will stay on the case.

   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.

  Four week ago Inner City Press 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. And now on February 28, the US Attorney's Office has 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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