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UN GATE, Jan 29 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres claims he has a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment, but continues to reward UN officials who are charged with harassment. Inner City Press previously reported on Guterres promoting his official Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond of Chile, after sexual harassment in his own 38th floor office, to "Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Preparations for the Commemoration of the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary."   

   Today on January 29 Inner City Press, now banned from the UN by Guterres for 575 days, exclusively reports on another reward being doled out, and scandal blunglingly covered up,  in Guterres' world of double-speak, harassment and hypocrisy.

       On January 30 scandal plagued Kyoko "Kiki" Shiotani will take over the UN Security Council Affairs Division's Security Council Practices and Charter Research Branch - after Inner City Press outed her as Rosemary DiCarlo's chief of staff getting her husband given, for money, the Security Councils website.

   After Inner City Press exposed this scandal it was told if it backed off, Guterres would. It didn't, and soon Inner City Press was roughed up and thrown out and banned. Guterres is corrupt.

  Inner City Press is now informed that The post has been held for months since the departure of Yvette Blanco in May 2019, after a Yvette has been bullied and forced out by Hasmik. The latter has kept the post for her friend Kiki whom DiCarlo did not want in her office due to her corruption. Basically, Hasmik gave the post to her friend who was a D2 (I believe), now she took a D1 - the same person whose husband was given a P5.

 This is the corrupt UN of Guterres and Rosemary DiCarlo, complicit in Guterres' roughing up and banning of Inner City Press. UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse to answer any questions, like propagandists in any dictatorship.

   Downtown at the SDNY courthouse which Inner City Press now covers daily, 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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