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June 5, 2023

After Inner City Press Scoop on UNTSO Sex in UN Van Haq Lies To AFP About Accountability

By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Patreon Doc
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UN GATE, June 1 – The United Nations claims to have a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up their abuses including the rape of children, withholding basic information which was provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but not now under Antonio Guterres.

Inner City Press previously expanded its exclusive reporting into UNTSO's scandal of public sex in the UN van, with information from UN whistleblowers in Jerusalem and New York: "the men in the UNTSO car have been charged with transporting a passenger who was not authorized and also for not co-operating with the investigation."

On April 14, 2022, hearing from whistleblowers again, Inner City Press emailed Guterres et al., "On deadline, on the UNTSO public sex video Inner City Press first published and each of you dissembled about, now state the UN employment and payment status of each accused staffer.,"

Dujarric did not answer, but in the noon briefing said two have been "separated" and one remains on the payroll. He would not say which one, calling it confidential. He laundered it through friendly Al Jazeera, which didn't even remember what country it happened in (even though it was Israel).

Jump cut to June 1, 2023 when Agence France Presse tried to help save the UN's bacon, "fact checking" that the video, that typically it refused to credit, was NOT in Africa. And so it's OK? Haq, misidentified by AFP "Fact Check" as Aziz, lied like Dujarric that there had been accountability. This is the scam "Verify" of Melissa Fleming - lie to protect the UN, and pretend it is fact checking. We'll have more on this.

Alongside the cover-up by Antonio Guterres and his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who refuse Inner City Press' written questions and ban it from entering to ask in-person, as state media and retirees are allowed to do (but don't ask about this), delay under UN due process rules for sex abusers but not journalists:

"The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management may seek further information from any relevant source. Any new additional information received by the Assistant Secretary-General must be provided to the staff member for a further response. The staff member shall be given two weeks to respond to such additional information. The staff member may request, in writing, additional time to respond."

Meanwhile, the Press which asks about this thrown out without due process, and no response even to polite letter from Quinn Emanuel law firm, video here. We'll have more on all this.

May 29, 2023

UN Rot Typified by Volker Turk Silent on Uighurs As He Shills for Corporate Donations

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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UN GATE, May 24 – The United Nations has hit a new low, after its now-gone human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet withheld her report on Xinjiang until the very hour she left, after whitewashing China's genocide against the Uighurs for her whole term.

To replace Bachelet, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres tapped his crony, Volker Turk formerly of UNHCR then a Guterres promoter. (Inner City Press back on July 2 predicted this pro-China move, here).

On May 24, 2023 Turk gave a speech asking for corporate donations to his Office - or, if he is like his Boss Guterres, to himself - by giving examples of what he'd do with it. The words "Uighur" or "Xinjiang" were of course nowhere in the pitch. The lone mention of China was about "civic space;" more space was devoted to the US. And Qatar? Like Cameroon and Haiti, not mentioned. The crony doesn't fall far from the tree.

In November 2022, Volker Turk was entirely silence on Qatar and human rights, including the 7000 migrant workers they killed building stadia for the FIFA World Cup. Some human rights commissioner.

This comes after Qatar welcomed Volker Turk's appointment (photo here), and paid for a large room at the UN in Geneva.

Qatar already bought Antonio Guterres in New York, where its state media Al Jazeera - now with its UN correspondents and alumni singing for the supper defending the corrupt World Cup - worked with Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric to get Inner City Press thrown out, here

On human rights, Inner City Press previously asked Volker Turk about the slaughter in Cameroon of Anglophones by the army of Paul Biya - and he'd never heard of it. Story here.

When Inner City Press published video (here) of Turk's answers about Gramsci, Inner City Press was then blocked from the UN's web site. So he is a cover up man and a censor. Anyone who had put up with Guterres reign of censorship and corruption has no human rights credibility or chops.

To UN Stakeout Ghana Invites Inner City Press But It Is Banned By SG Guterres & Dujarric

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 24 – The UN Security Council among its Permanent members has no African country. But there are three elected members.

One of them, Ghana, on May 24 announced that with the other two (Mozambique and Gabon) it will hold a press stakeout "to highlight Africa's approach towards convergence by the Council leading to negotiations on the financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations."

The stakeout will be inside the UN - from which Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres and his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming ban Inner City Press, after its questions about Guterres' finances.

Inner City Press has appealed, but UN Security chief Gilles Michaud hasn't deigned to answer. So how can Inner City Press attend?

Here is the invite, and to whom and how it was sent: From: Solomon Korbieh <skorbieh@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, May 24, 2023 at 6:44 PM Subject: MEDIA STAKEOUT BY GABON, GHANA AND MOZAMBIQUE ON 25TH MAY(TOMORROW), 2023 AT 10.45AM

To: Stephane Dujarric <dujarric@un.org>, Farhan Haq <haqf@un.org>, melissa.fleming@un.org <melissa.fleming@un.org>, AG <ag@un.org>, Marcia Soares Pinto <soarespinto@un.org>, David Kaye <dkaye@law.uci.edu>, Amina Mohammed <amina.mohammed@un.org>, Janos Tisovszky <tisovszky@un.org>, Eihab Omaish <omaish@un.org>, Tal Mekel <mekel@un.org>, Keishamaza Rukikaire <rukikaire@un.org>, seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org <seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org>, corbeta@un.org <corbeta@un.org>, Eri Kaneko <kaneko@un.org>, achim.steiner@undp.org <achim.steiner@undp.org>, abaza@un.org <abaza@un.org>, opga@un.org <opga@un.org>, Brenden Varma <varmab@un.org>, Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez <sotonino@un.org>, MALU <malu@un.org>, Monica Grayley <Grayley@un.org>, tremblay@un.org <tremblay@un.org>, Paulina Kubiak <kubiakp@un.org>, courtenay.rattray@un.org <courtenay.rattray@un.org>, awada@un.org <awada@un.org>, siwen.qian@un.org <siwen.qian@un.org>, coutrix@un.org <coutrix@un.org>, Matthew R. Lee

Cc: funca, ghanaperm@aol.com <ghanaperm@aol.com>, info@ghanamissionun.org <info@ghanamissionun.org>, Felix Boateng <felix.boateng@mfa.gov.gh>, Bismark Anyanah <bismarkanyanah@yahoo.com>

Dear Mr. Dujarric, This is to inform you that Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique (A3) would have a MEDIA STAKEOUT tomorrow, 25th May 2023 at 10.45 am at the Security Council Press Area.

As you may be aware, the Security Council is scheduled to have a briefing on the Secretary-General's Report on Financing of African Union Peace Support Operations (AUPSO) at 11.00 am. The media stakeout by the A3 seeks to highlight Africa's approach towards convergence by the Council leading to negotiations on the financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations.

Best regards.

Solomon Korbieh Minister Plenipotentiary/Spokesperson Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations 19 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017

On Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 11:52:37 GMT-4, Matthew R. Lee wrote: Still banned from UN, for being roughed up on 3 July 2018 while covering the UN Budget Committee meetings I am entitled to cover under MALU Access Guidelines and as applied to all other non resident correspondents). Why is Inner City Press, despite the Quinn Emanual law firm's pro bono letter to Melissa Fleming more than a year ago, still banned from entering to ask these questions? These written question are posed and responses requested pursuant to the until-now broken commitment the the UN will "continue to answer e-mailed questions from Mr Lee" InnerCityPress: here
May 22, 2023

UN Fraudster Cary Yan Gets 42 Months As Judge Notes He Bribed Francis Lorenzo

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

SDNY / UN GATE, May 16 – Chinese businessman and fraudster Cary Yan was the subject of a Federal indictment unsealed on September 2, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Using a UN-affiliated non-governmental organization, Yan paid bribes in New York to officers of the Marshall Islands and others. Indictment on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.

In 2018, Inner City Press from inside the UN reported on Cary Yan's suspicious activities, (including video here, and bribe-bought promotion by UNCA here) as it was reporting on the parallel UN bribery by Patrick Ho of Ye Jianming's NGO CEFC China Energy.

On December 1, 2022, Yan and his co-defendant pled guilty. Inner City Press was there - thread:

[Plea agreement on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here]

Guilty plea is accepted by the judge. Sentencing set for late Feb but could be earlier since parents' visa running out.

On March 9, Yan asked to delay his sentencing from March 28 to May 16.

On March 10, it was granted: "Set/Reset Hearings as to Cary Yan: Sentencing set for 5/16/2023 at 11:00 AM before Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald."

Just before sentencing, Yan in a redacted sentencing submission asked for time served. The US says it wants 57 months.

It got 42 months - with 37 of them already served. Inner City Press was there, thread here:

Now at sentencing of UN-linked fraudster Cary Yan. He wants time served. "The Founder" and enablers still in UN have not been prosecuted

Defense: Cary Yan went to college in Beijing and wants to advise NGOs. He has given a lot of money. Fraud as "anti poverty work" - very UN.

Defense: The Bureau of Prisons or US Marshals lost Cary Yan's manuscript. [What, could it be another expose or how-to manual of corruption in the UN of Antonio Guterres , pay to play?]

Defense: He wanted to help people in the Marshall Islands

Judge: Didn't Mr Yan bribe Mr Lorenzo? [That's Francis Lorenzo, who's back in the UN, he's in a book Inner City Press is shepherding toward publication. UN corruption is expanding]

Yan's lawyer: US wants 57 months, Probation wants 42. But Cary merits less - time served. The Roger Ng case was different. [What of Ng Lap Seng, who bought UN PGA , whose office under Csaba Korosi still bans Inner City Press from his UN Civil Society Town Halls

AUSA: WOGC (scam NGO Inner City Press exposed before Antonio Guterres banned the Press from the UN) was all about money. 57 months wouldn't even be the highest FCPA sentence this year.

Judge has taken a break. Here's Cary Yan in the UN, video here

Cary Yan has less hair now, two lawyers and interpreter. Where's the blonde go? Judge is back. Yan [in Chinese] I will be honest

Judge: Mr Yan is not a public official... The Deputy Ambassador of the Dominican Republic Francis Lorenzo-- AUSA: We gave Lorenzo a 5K1 [cooperator's] letter. [Ng Lap Seng got 48 months. UN PGA John Ashe died under his own barbell]

Judge: Yan has had 4 heart surguries. He will be deported. I sentence him to 42 months.

[37 already served, so five more at MDC then deportation - to Marshal Islands, whose passport he bought? And can return to the US?]

More detail on Substack here

On February 2, for her February 16 sentencing, Zhou asked for time served.

On February 9, the US also asked for time served for Zhou - in a sentencing submission that references Francis Lorenzo, already free and back in the UN, and "the Founder," whom Inner City Press exposed before being thrown out of the UN and whom the US has never charged.

On February 15, Zhou got just that: time served. "JUDGMENT IN A CRIMINAL CASE as to Gina Zhou (2). The defendant pleaded guilty to count One. Counts 2-5 are dismissed on the motion of the United States. IMPRISONMENT: Time served. The defendant should receive full credit for the time served since her arrest in Thailand on November 16, 2020. ASSESSMENT: $100.00 due immediately. (Signed by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on 2/16/2023)."

After Inner City Press' initial report, Yan retained Jonathan Bolz, who also represented Patrick Ho. Word is Yan was extradited in from Thailand and will be presented before the assigned District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who also presided over sentencing to 15 years of UN rapist Karim Elkorany.

On September 2, 2022, after finding the just-unsealed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) indictment of Yan and Gina Zhou in the docket at the SDNY court which it now covers, still banned from the UN, Inner City Press emailed Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Eri Kaneko and Melissa Fleming questions about the UN's role in the bribery by the NGOs, including the United Nations International Organization for Sustainable Development and the World Organization of Governance and Competitiveness, WOGC. No answer.

May 15, 2023

UN Western Sahara Sex Scandal Ripped Off by Colum Lynch from Inner City Press 2021 Scoop

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 11 – How corrupt are United Nations officials and the correspondents who cover (up for) them today?

On May 9, a long-time UN insider named Colum Lynch, who has bounced from the Washington Post to Foreign Policy and beyond, ran a belatedly rip-off piece about the UN Mission in Western Sahara, based off "a political problem... cited in news reports about the disputed territory."

While Lynch, as is his M.O., refused to name or credit the "news reports," he named and used the problem: "a Russian national named Alexander Ivanko, was involved in a romantic relationship with a local Moroccan woman."

There is a major problem: Inner City Press in 2021 first published this information, and has remained banned by the UN until this day. For example, Inner City Press in December 2021 published, available then as now in Google:

"Inner City Press has been contacted by UN whistleblowers outraged at what they say is already a pro-Morocco scandal at MINURO under - literally - Ivanko. They tell Inner City Press, none of whose questions the UN will answer even to confirm or deny, that Ivanko has struck up a predatory relationship with a Moroccan woman who was recruited into MINURSO by now-rewarded predator Colin Stewart.

Inner City Press on the morning of December 20 put this question and another - about UNRWA and Afghanistan - to all UN spokespeople... Inner City Press has the victim's name but, as it does in the current US v. Ghislaine Maxwell case on which Guterres refuses to answer why he had a representative, Amir Dossal, on Maxwell's Terramar project board, it is not publish the name - in the case of the UN, for now). The whistleblowers also telling recount that given his lack of commitment to decolonization, Guterres told Grandi - subject now of an Afghanistan and UNRWA scoop - to keep UNHCR's Western Sahara work "sleeping" for now. Forever, as things stand. The UN under Guterres is less and less accountable, less and less transparent."

Its press corpse, too. Colum Lynch has previously ripped off Inner City Press, while it was still in the UN.

And when UNSG Antonio Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric - quoted as "Mister" by Lynch - had Inner City Press roughed up and thrown out of the UN, it was covered by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Independent, for example, but not a word from Lynch or Foreign Policy or his other employers.

Lynch also lets off the hook and covers up for many others in (and left out) of this story. But that's a story for another day. We cover the SDNY now, most recently Carroll v. Trump (booklet here) - but this type of journalistic theft and collusion cannot and will not go unremarked.

Inner City Press has appealed to re-enter the UN and will not rest. Watch this site.

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May 8, 2023

On World Press Freedom Day UN Guterres Lies while Banning Independent Media Exposing Him

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 3 – On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations of Antonio Guterres is more hypocritical than usual.

While UN Global Communications chief Melissa Fleming put out a video of Guterres equating what he (and she) characterize as disinformation as the threat to press freedom, Guterres has banned Inner City Press from entering the UN since 2018, when it exposed the omission of links to bribery firm CEFC China Energy from his financial disclosure.

Law firm Quinn Emanuel, on a pro bono basis, wrote to Fleming and the UN Correspondents Association (with state media of China on its board of directors) seeking a dialogue to reinstate Inner City Press.

There has been no answer, nor to an appeal to Guterres head of security Gilles Michaud.

Still, ill-informed media run the Guterres video without commentary. Disinformation, indeed.

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May 1, 2023

UN Daniela Bas Hired Relatives & Moonlighted as Life Coach Staff Tell Banned Inner City Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 28 – In the UN of Antonio Guterres, there is scandal after scandal, each one covered up and/or ignored by the state media and scribes they let in, while banning the Press.

From the e-mail bag this week, while Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refused all of Inner City Press' questions:

Dear Matthew Russell Lee: Tell the Daniela Bas story. This director of social affairs got fired from DESA for corruption and is running a huge consultancy firm now. The UN didn't bother to explain to anyone why she was fired.

We know very little. Over the weekend we were told that she was not coming in again (but she was in the office on Friday) and that John Wilmoth will be the acting director.

She was known to be very corrupt. She appointed her brother and her sister in law's company to do diversity training at the UN. She was accused of racism. She tried to get in people that were her friends and family and not qualified. She made statements about no-one being able to fire her because she is in a wheelchair.

In the end, she was apparently fired because she took paid contracts, in addition to her job, to do life coaching through an NGO. She now runs a company where she prides herself on her history with the UN. Proudly announcing that she 'was a senior director' at DESA.

Despite the fact that she should have left with her tail between her legs, she walks proud and tall. The UN has not said a word to any of the staff. Nothing. Zilch. Her staff were left in the dark, stunned when she left. Not sure whether you're going to get any more information but many, many, many of us are waiting to see what you print. Good luck."

Well, the UN despite Dujarric's on camera promise to answer Inner City Press' written questions doesn't. Daneila Bas who smiled answering Inner City Press' questions until it was thrown out did nothing after. But we continue to report. Watch this site.

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April 24, 2023

Guterres Subject to US FISA Warrant As He Serves CCP Like Police Station EDNY Indicted

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 17 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres accommodates and supports not only China but Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now confirm that even the US Administration knows.

But there are more than leaks: "some of Guterres’s conversations, the documents indicate, were collected under the FISA law."

While reporting from inside the UN, Inner City Press exposed Guterres concealing his links to convicted UN bribery firm CEFC China Energy.

Guterres responded by having Inner City Press roughed up by UN Security and banned ever since. On April 17, 2023, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric refused Inner City Press' written questions, even as it covered the illegal Chinese government "police station" on East Broadway in Manhattan.

Guterres SHOULD be subject to a warrant, and not only for surveillance.

Inner City Press has reported on Guterres' connivance with China (and its convicted bribery arm CEFC China Energy), before Guterres banned it from the UN where his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuses its written questions on these and other topics.

Also exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed, trashing Kenya's Ruto. Amina Mohammed says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is "ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."

She was previously exposed as backdating CITES certificates for endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on Inner City Press. Now what?

Inner City Press has appealed its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed. Still, no answer.

More on Substack here.

April 17, 2023

Guterres Weak on Ukraine as Deputy Biased on Kenya Leaks Show as USUN Allows Press Ban

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 13 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres accommodates and supports not only China but Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now confirm that even the US Administration knows.

"Guterres emphasized his efforts to improve Russia's ability to export," the leak says, "even if that involves sanctioned Russian entities or individuals... [Guterres is] undermining broader efforts to hold Moscow accountable for its actions in Ukraine."

But why does the US Administration continue to publicly praise Guterres, and allow him to ban media he doesn't like, as he helps Russia sell its ammonia and China control more and more of the UN?

Also exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed, trashing Kenya's Ruto. Amina Mohammed says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is "ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."

She was previously exposed as backdating CITES certificates for endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on Inner City Press. Now what?

Inner City Press has appealed its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed. Still, no answer.

More on Substack here.

April 10, 2023

On UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asked UN Now Also Damning ESCWA Leaked Email

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE EXCLUSIVE, April 3 – How corrupt is today's United Nations, under Antonio Guterres?

Well, consider UNRWA, under Philippe Lazzarini. Inner City Press for two days has asked Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming -- the second day cc-ing Lazzarini himself - about complaints and evidence that whistleblowers have provided to Inner City Press about what is formally knowns as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

No response at all, while Dujarric laughs and services state media and his partners in censorship, with whom he worked to target and now ban Inner City Press.

So here's some of the story, with more to come -

On April 3, 2023, this: "Dear Matthew, Thank you again for continuing to be supportive of staff in pain and for showing how the UN has truly become the private farm of those who are connected to the SG and his inner circle. Member States must know about these actions. Very much similar to these actions are happening at other UN agencies and missions. OIOS, Ethics offices are only used as tools to help those in power get away with their violations. Instead of offering to give best practice examples to host governments, the UN is now allowing corrupt governments to proceed with their illegal actions. Most host governments may be aware of those actions at the UN but keep silent because the UN also stays quiet about their violations. Please publish this leaked email in the attached document. This email is from a Chief of HR at ESCWA sent to the ASG for HR Martha Helena Lopez and copied to the Chef de Cabinet of Antonio Guterres, OIOS and the Ethics Office denounces the grave violations, retaliation and improper conduct of the Executive Secretary of ESCWA and yet no action is taken by the Secretary-General to hold her accountable. This is the UN of Antonio Guterres. Instead of holding the ES accountable, the ASG of HR was busy two weeks ago to assist her with her plan to allow a senior staff accused of fraud and sexual harassment of resigning instead of being dismissed."

Here is the letter, freely available on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here

Previously we wrote, and see below:

Dear Matthew Russell Lee / Inner City Press: We are a group of UNRWA staff who are witnessing daily violations and abuses and are unable to do anything about it due to bullying and fear of retaliation by the senior management. We have several documented cases of abuse and fraud by senior directors who are protected by the commissioner general. We saw your reporting and we are asking if you are interested to write about such cases in order for us to disseminate wider once these issues are reported.

Examples: 1- A Senior Director was recruited at D1 level when he failed the P5 interview 10 months earlier. This was a direct intervention of Christian Saunders when he was acting USG of the Agency.

2- That same Senior Director who is a former colleague and a friend of the director of HR bullies staff. When staff report those actions to the ethics office and to the internal audit department, the complaints are ignored.

3- That same Director announces a vacancy in his department and interviews candidates. He selects his preferred candidate and makes her an offer. When she refuses the fees, he decides to cancel the vacancy and lies to the HR department saying, no candidate was found suitable.

45 days later, he announces the same vacancy at 300% increase of the initial salary. When HR asks him to interview candidates, he says, no because he had selected a candidate from previous interviews. Head of HR because of his close friendship with the director (formerly colleagues at UNICEF), he agrees. WE have copies of the two contracts with same ToRs but different amounts of fees.

4- Tribunal judgment calls for accountability with two persons (Director of HR and deputy director of Syria field office) because they knowingly offered a contract to an unqualified candidate who is proven to have false information on her PhP/CV. Nothing happens.

5- A staff member seeks protection against retaliation from the ethics office. That request is ignored for months. When the staff members provide additional concrete solid evidence of harassment, he is granted protection. The evidence is very strong and qualifies for a dismissal. The case is forwarded for investigation without putting the staff on any preventive action. Harassment and bullying continues knowing that the investigation will lead to nothing.

6- Report of two independent consultants show how senior management is bullying staff with a strong report. The report is hidden and nothing happens.

On the morning of February 6, Inner City Press sent the above for comment to dozens of UN officials, and Malta's Mission to the UN under Vanessa Frazier, as UNSC president for February. No answer at all.

In late March, more: "Dear Matthew, This time, the case is about ESCWA in Lebanon. A dirty deal is about to be sealed in NY between two of the top Executives. At ESCWA, OHRM, OIOS and the Executive Secretary of ESCWA colluded together to facilitate for a Director of Administration at D-1 level charged with sexual harassment and fraud, to stay on special leave with full pay for a year and half to allow him to reach retirement age and submit his resignation closer to retirement. With the current special post adjustment in Beirut of almost 116 % this Director instead of being dismissed has been compensated by staying at home for two years with an approximate salary of 20,000 USD while enjoying all benefits and entitlements. The Executive Secretary has traveled earlier this week to UNHQ to seal the deal with Office of Human Resources and to allow a discreet resignation instead of a dismissal. This is the UN of Antonio Guterres. This is the Accountability Framework for sexual harassment and fraud. This is the justice for survivors of sexual harassment. Your urgent attention may put an end to these illegal actions."

Yes, this is the UN of Antonio Guterres, crying out for external accountability.

April 3, 2023

As Washington Targets Wrong Portuguese in UN Guterres Grabs Corrupt UNOPS as Bans Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, March 30 – In the UN system a big wig from Portugal is being targeted by the US. But he's the wrong Portuguese to be targeted, and few will say it.

Just as Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General who bans from all UN premises the Press which questioned his failure to include his link to UN bribery firm China Energy Fund Committee in his public financial disclosures, through the Gulbenkian Foundation from which he took money, give the UNOPS job to a Portuguese crony, the US guns for IOM.

Amy Pope, the deputy director there since 2021, wants the top job, is challenging the re-election of her boss, Director-General António Vitorino.

Big Boss Tony Guterres doesn't like it.

But not wanting to fight an Administration who has left him more unaccountable than the bank regulators who coddled Silicon Valley Bank to the end, Guterres has gotten passive-aggressive revenge.

From his spokesman / censor Stephane Dujarric, who has refused all written questions from Inner City Press despite an on-camera statement that he would answer, this:

"United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Jorge Moreira da Silva of Portugal as Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services. Moreira da Silva was the Minister of Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning of Portugal from 2013 to 2015 and Visiting Full Professor at the Lisbon University. Previously he was Senior Adviser to the President of Portugal on Science and Environment (2006-2009), Secretary of State for Environment and Spatial Planning (2004-2005), Secretary of State for Science and Higher Education (2003-2004), and as a Member of the Portuguese Parliament. Mr. Moreira da Silva graduated from the University of Porto, Portugal, with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering."

Yes, in Guterres' UN, the engineering of corruption. We'll have more on this.

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March 27, 2023

On Burma Murder Plot With UN Link Htut Wants a Deposition in Myanmar or White Plains

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint

UN GATE, March 23 – After the Burma coup regime purported to fired its New York-based UN ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun for his speech in New York in the usually scripted UN General Assembly, two Burmese were criminally charged with trying to kill him. One was been detained, as exclusively live tweeted by Inner City Press, below.

On August 11, 20 year-old Ye Hein Zaw, who with a Burmese interpreter got his income approved on April 6 as low enough for free counsel hired a private attorney, one who is described as a Wall Street lawyer half of whose clients are French: Matthew Galluzzo.

On December 10, a guilty plea: today the guilty plea of YE HEIN ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar, for his role in a conspiracy to assault and make a violent attack upon Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. ZAW pled guilty today in White Plains federal court before U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As he admitted in court today, Ye Hein Zaw participated in a plot to injure or kill Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in a planned attack that was to take place on American soil. Zaw now awaits sentencing for his crime. I commend the tireless efforts of our law enforcement partners at all levels of government to ensure the safety of foreign diplomats and officials in the United States and bring the perpetrators of this plot to justice.” According to the Information to which ZAW pled guilty, the complaint that was filed in this case, and statements made during court proceedings: Between at least in or about July 2021 through at least on or about August 5, 2021, ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar residing in New York, conspired with others to injure or kill Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (the “Ambassador”). During the conspiracy, a co-conspirator communicated with an arms dealer in Thailand (the “Arms Dealer”) who sells weapons to the Burmese military, which overthrew Myanmar’s civilian government in or about February 2021. In the course of those conversations, the co-conspirator and the Arms Dealer agreed on a plan in which the co-conspirator would hire attackers to hurt the Ambassador in an attempt to force the Ambassador to step down from his post. If the Ambassador did not step down, then the Arms Dealer proposed that the attackers hired by the co-conspirator would kill the Ambassador. Shortly after agreeing on the plan, ZAW contacted the co-conspirator by cellphone and, using a money transfer app, transferred approximately $4,000 to the co-conspirator as an advance payment on the plot to attack the Ambassador. Later, during a recorded phone conversation, ZAW and the co-conspirator discussed how the planned attackers would require an additional $1,000 to conduct the attack on the Ambassador in Westchester County, and, for an additional payment, the attackers could, in substance, kill the Ambassador. In response, ZAW agreed, in substance, to pay the additional $1,000 and to try to obtain the additional money. ZAW is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Halpern on May 10, 2022."

On March 16, 2022, this: "STIPULATION IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR 8TH OR SUBSEQUENT ORDER OF CONTINUANCE AND 8TH ORDER OF CONTINUANCE as to Phyo Hein Htut. Time excluded from 3/16/2022 until 4/13/2022. (Signed by Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy on 3/16/2022)"

Jump cut to March 2023, when Htut is approaching a July 10 trial in SDNY in White Plains. He has asked for US public money to put on a witness from Myanmar, who would say Htut was a pro democracy activist. The US said if the unnamed witness is deposed, it should be in White Plains. Then, two sealed documents.

Burma did not speak at the UNGA High Level Week, from which UNSG Antonio Guterres and PGA Abdulla Shahid banned Inner City Press.

Burmese sources consulted by Inner City Press wondered aloud if the Thai arms merchant in the Complaint, or allies, might have any role. Inner City Press will keep covering the case, and asking UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who don't answer even a law firm's pro bono letter, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, about it.

UN Moves from Banning Press in NY to Firing Now Bans Anti-CCP Whistleblower in Geneva

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, March 22 – The United Nations, exempting itself from all laws including about press freedom and whistleblower protection, under SG Antonio Guterres not only fires staff who criticize Guterres and ousts journalists which report on him.

Now Guterres' misuse of UN Security to physically bar his critics from entry, ostensibly as being threatening, has spread from New York to Geneva.

In July 2018, Guterres had Inner City Press physically roughed up and ousted as it reported on his deal with the UN Fifth (Budget) Committee then-chair Cameroon to remain silent about Paul Biya's slaughter of Anglophones in exchange for financial favors in the Committee.

Since then, a total ban on re-entry has been in place, despite among other things a pro bono letter from the Quinn Emanuel law firm (here), cc-ed to the so-called UN Correspondents Association and the US State Department.

Now from Geneva Inner City Press learns that UN whistleblower Emma Reilly, who expose the UN giving the names of Chinese dissidents set to testify there to the Chinese CCP government, had not only been fired by Guterres, but now banned from entry to give a speech, by Guterres' hand-picked "Human Rights" Commissioner Volker Turk.

Turk did nothing while in New York drawing a big UN (public) salary, when Big Boss Tony Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up and banned from the UN; appeal unacted on. Now he flexes his own totalitarian "muscle" in UNOG. To this has the UN descended. Watch this site.
March 20, 2023

Corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres Gives Top Job at UNDP to Member of Syria Assad Regime

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 14 – How corrupt is today's UN?

Well, on March 14 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave a top UN job to a longtime member and supporter of Syria's Assad government, Abdallah Al Dardari.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who refuses to answer even the written questions of Inner City Press he and Guterres had banned from the UN, announced " the appointment of Abdallah Al Dardari of Syria as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He was Chairman of the State Planning Commission in Syria, until he became Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs."

This is today's UN...

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March 23, 2023

Human Rights Watch Proud of Bahrain Ban But Colludes in UN Ban of Press Litmus Test Failed

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE, March 10 – Hypocrisy and careerism are nothing new in the UN. Now Human Rights Watch has a new executive director Tirana Hassan - and the press conference was limited to members of a group with Chinese state media on its board and Iran's IRIB as a member, which worked to throw the Press out of the UN, the United Nations Correspondents Association.

That Tirana Hassan was colluding with an organization which bans Press - actually two, the UN and its UN or UN Censorship Alliance - was known to her: she follows Inner City Press on Twitter, and her UN rep was part of getting Inner City Press ousted from UNCA (for exposing corruption of the organization's then President) and then ousted from the UN (natch - Antonio Guterres' undisclosed financial link to bribery firm CEFC China Energy).

Now on March 10 HRW trumpets that two of its staff have been banned from Bahrain. Fine, we'll report it. But note that HRW has been fine with and colluded in the UN's ban of Press.

This UNCA and its executive committee member are so arrogant they didn't even respond to an inquiry about their position on UN access from the Quinn Emanuel law firm, representing Inner City Press pro bono, here. Birds of a feather.

Here was the promotion: "Human Rights Watch is pleased to invite members of the United Nations Correspondents Association to an in-person press conference at UN Headquarters on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. EST. In her debut press appearance at UN headquarters, Human Rights Watch’s acting executive director, Tirana Hassan, will discuss and take questions on the main human rights challenges for 2023. Who: Tirana Hassan, acting executive director Louis Charbonneau, UN director When: Thursday, March 9, 2023. Where: UNCA Room (S-310) at UN Headquarters. This press conference is open to all UNCA members."

Open to UNCA members, largely state media and retirees. HRW's UN rep also worked to get Inner City Press banned from the UN, and made false copyright claims to cover up his role. Will Tirana Hassan be any different? An appeal is pending, here - it is a litmus case. This is today's UN - hours after the event, there was no video, and that only story from an aggregation site and only on Nicaragua. They claim they spoke on China - in secret, to a group with CCTV on the board. Corrupt.

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March 6, 2023

Mozambique as UNSC President Leaves Press Questions Unanswered As Mulls DRC Junket

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

UN GATE, March 1 – With Mozambique taking over presidency of the UN Security Council on March 1, 2023, on February 28 Inner City Press wrote to the Mozambique Mission to the UN to request in advance access to its March 1 press conference by Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso.

To submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to the Mozambique Mission at its UN Blue Book address and at the UN email addresses listed by its purported partner - that is, mozambique at un dot int and mozambique dote unmission at gmail dot com

From the Mozambique Mission, nothing at all. The Mission is not on Twitter or other social media. The Ambassador dodges a question about a trip or junket to DRC, and said the UNSC's failure does not impact its credibility. Because it's already shot? Video here.

Inner City Press asked the Mozambique Mission, and the UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here. Also: "On December 2, 2022 I was told to file an appeal with DSS and I did on December 5 - you should ensure response (there has been none) and granting. See here."

This while Inner City Press is banned from entry, which it had for years until it exposed UN corruption. No response to this July 2021 appeal. Impunity.

Inner City Press will be covering the Mozambique presidency, quite actively, this month.

Our requests and questions remain; we will publish any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch this site.

February 27, 2023

Year of Ukraine Failure By UN and Guterres Covered Up Now Refugees UNserved

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Eastern Front

UN GATE, Feb 21 – There is much to say about the now-full year of war in Ukraine. But the focus here is on the total failure of the United Nations, and even more of its Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Guterres, who has a pattern of being obsequious to strongmen like China's Xi, with whom he glad-handed at the Beijing Olympics without saying a world about the genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, initially told his staff not to call what happened in Ukraine an invasion.

Once he was outed, he pushed forward to try to help sell Russian ammonia, through a Houston-based commodities firm, no less. Thus to keep the UN Security Council's Permanent Five members content. The war continues.

When questioned about his actions - Inner City Press asked about Guterres' cover up of his links to convicted UN briber China Energy Fund Committee, and how he chose the Houston-based firm - his response, through "Department of Global Communications" chief Melissa Fleming, as been to keep Inner City Press banned from entry. His spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refuses all of Inner City Press' written questions.

Now UN General Assembly president Csaba Korosi, who followed suit and blocked Inner City Press from his "Civil Society Town Hall," will hold an entirely symbolic UNGA meeting Feb 22 and 23, and perhaps 24. His spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told Inner City Press it could appeal the ban - but UN DSS chief Gilles Michaud has entirely ignored the December 5, 2022 appeal.

How long will those with unrealistic and/or self-serving dreams about the UN allow Guterres to continue this?

On February 20, Presidents' Day in the US, Joe Biden showed up in Kyev. On November 21, NRC said One year on from the start of the Ukraine war, NRC has found that seven out of ten refugees who fled to Poland, Moldova and Romania said they are struggling to make ends meet. As President Biden prepares to speak in Warsaw later today [Feb 21] NRC is calling on host countries and international donors to not forget about the plight of refugees.. [But Tony's UN has moved on, while still conniving to help sell Russian ammonia through Trammo or otherwise]. More respondents in Poland and Moldova report having moved to substandard housing to reduce their costs compared to those in Romania, and relatively more people in Moldova – particularly the Roma community – have resorted to borrowing money since they fled Ukraine. Usurious nations.. More responses follow. Watch this site.

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February 20, 2023

In Corrupt UN of Guterres UNEP Scams Detailed by Whistleblowers to Inner City Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE, Feb 18 – How corrupt is today's United Nations under Antonio Guterres? The head man files incomplete financial disclosure, then throws out the Press that asks about it. PGA Csaba Korosi follows suit and bans Inner City Press from his "Civil Society Town Hall," which UN DSS Head Gilles Michaud ignores the appeal the PGA's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak said to file. No answers, so more stories. Here's today's, from whistleblower:

"Hi Matt, We know you'll get this out there for us. The drama in the UN never ends, just changes positions like the game of musical chairs . . . It's pointless reporting through the internal channels since Justice is rarely served especially when it's seniors being exposed. What the so called investigating entity (OIOS) does is, they delegate the Case to the accused persons organization, so a team of Legal officers who have no idea what investigation is all about, are the ones who determine the Case!

There's a previous incident where a hiring manager in UNEP got a crooked colleague to change assessment results of her preferred candidate, one Ms. Atifa Kassam, (who had otherwise failed the assessment) so that she made it to the interview and subsequently got the job, a P3 post. . . fair and transparent recruitment indeed? Similar story for a GS-4 position (still in UNEP) where all candidates failed the technical assessment, but the crooked lead panelist opted to cook the test results and proceed to the oral interviews with a bunch of his preferred candidates. Correct procedure should have been to cancel the process and start over but . . . so someone somewhere in the UN system is earning a salary in a position they did not rightfully get? That's the United Nations Matt.

UN talks of mandatory GGST certification for General Service posts right? The list of staff who've skewed their way through into the system without GGST certification is endless. Perhaps you could get us answers from USG-DMSPC Catherine Pollard, or ASG-OHRM Martha Lopez and tell us why? (Casing example is one HRO, Feezah Kyambadde, who is well known for bypassing candidates without GGST certification into the system). And guess what, in UNEP again, one Annette Waweru, facilitated a junior staff getting "exceptional approval" to take the GGST a 6th time . . . and "miraculously" got the post of Finance and Budget Assistant!

Well, "Policy" says only 5 attempts for the GGST is allowed, but how come this staffer got an extra chance? Could others also be given 'that extra chance' to try?. This is what free and fair recruitment is all about? Please get us answers from USG-DOS Atul Khare. And just so that the world knows, you can be interviewed as early as 3 or 4am for a job in the UN, and still not be selected for it, despite being the best candidate!

Matt, if you could get your hands on the raw audio recording [Ed.'s note: please send it to us, it will go straight unto Soundcloud after another non-response from corupt UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming) for the interview of this position you'll notice something with the 2 candidate being interviewed. Clearly, she was reading from a pre-written script and in passing, even mentions having had a meeting with the panel chair the previous night! What does that tell you about her selection to the post? Try getting answers from the UNEP Chief of Staff - Rafael Peralta or Chief of HR - Carlos Serrano (good luck if either assents to releasing the truth . . .). The post JO:140108 was for a Director.

And still on the UNEP Director position just mentioned, using your network, if you could discreetly get in touch with the Japanese Ambassador to the UN in New York, and let him know that their national (Yoko Watanabe, UNDP) with over 20 years experience in the UN, was short changed! She was the best candidate and the panel had agreed on her selection, but her name was changed by the chief panelist at the last minute, and an American with just 2 years in the UN from USAID was selected instead. The raw recordings can prove it and those present during her interview, if brave enough, can attest to what transpired behind the scenes. It'd be a waste of precious time reporting this to the OIOS, nothing will happen. Maybe the Ambassador could take SG Guterres head-on for answers and for Justice to be served for their national. Shift focus to New York Headquarters where bending rules rather than enforcing them is the norm . . .

Policy, Rules, Regulations are compromised by the very persons in senior positions to enforce them. Example, staff members share their login credentials with Interns and make these poor, overworked, unpaid colleagues do their donkey work for them - including recruitment of staff! Yes Matt, it's happening right in the UN Headquarters. Never mind that the "Policy" says non-staff (interns, UNVs, Contractors and Consultants) should not be involved in recruitment! Casing example is a section called Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Unit headed by one Tomas Kontogeorgos. Could you please check if UN IT boss, ASG Bernard Mariano, is aware what his 'senior colleagues' are up to, sharing their login credentials with interns who are never paid despite their credible output? Oh boy Matt, there's stench and rot behind the glamour of the UN logo.

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February 13, 2023

On UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asks UN and Lazzarini With Photo of Car No Answer

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

UN GATE EXCLUSIVE, Feb 7 – How corrupt is today's United Nations, under Antonio Guterres?

No response at all, while Dujarric laughs and services state media and his partners in censorship, with whom he worked to target and now ban Inner City Press.

So here's some of the story, with more to come:

Examples: 1- A Senior Director was recruited at D1 level when he failed the P5 interview 10 months earlier. This was a direct intervention of Christian Saunders when he was acting USG of the Agency.

6- Report of two independent consultants show how senior management is bullying staff with a strong report. The report is hidden and nothing happens.

UNRWA Snr. Management ignores accountability. Staff complaints to ethics and DIOS are ignored selectively.

UNRWA management under Phillipe Lazzarrini and his team promised donors to work with transparency and accountability. In reality, what is happening is the exact opposite. Management assessment report prepared by two individual independent consultants showed several serious violations and mismanagement. The report was requested and paid by the German government via GIZ.

After several attempts by Lazzarini to intervene with the findings, the report was hidden. Instead of handling the serious issues, he decided to call for a team building exercise which included cooking class for his Snr Directors. Directors who do not agree with him and his deputy are marginalized and eventually pushed out. Those who maintain bad relations with the communities and staff are promoted. An example of this promotion is the most recent appointment of Dorothe Kalaus (Germany) to the director of Lebanon field.

Briefly before the arrival of Lazzarini, Christian Saunders was appointed by his friend the Secretary General as acting Commissioner-General for UNRWA. During his acting period, he added more than $100 million annually as unjustified additional costs. This is all in the middle of a serious funding crisis which was threatening the existence of the Agency. In addition, Saunders intervened in appointments of several of his friends.

Brian Baker, a national of the UK and a former UNICEF staff member, was moved out of Gaza a few years back for his problems with the community. He was interviewed in Jan 2019 for a P5 position of chief security. The Panel found him unsuitable and opted for another candidate of an Egyptian nationality.

Less than a year later, Brian was appointed as a Director of Security and Risk management with a fraud process orchestrated by the Director of Human Resources Antonino Brusa who is a friend and a former colleague of Brian Baker. The process was a fraud. The head of the Panel was a UNICEF staff and the then direct supervisor of Brian Baker. He was invited by Brusa to chair a panel. There was never in the history of the Agency such an action. Panel members disagreed with the chair (Brian's supervisor at UNICEF) and did not select Brian. Antonino Brusa informed the panel members that lets send the case to the acting commissioner-general for his decision. Saunders overruled the panel members' views and approved the appointment of Brian Baker at D1 level.

That same person did not qualify for a P5 with the same agency a few months earlier. Baker within months of his appointment, fired the Egyptian P5 person who competed against him. With fabricated accusations and in close coordination with friend Antonino Brusa, the investigation took a couple of weeks for a final decision to be approved with dismissal.

This way, Baker got rid of his first target. A few months later, Brian Baker seeks a recruitment of a local consultant and he publishes an announcement for that position. He selected his preferred candidate and offered her a contract valued at approximately usd 1300 monthly. She turned down the contract. Brian writes to HR and informs them that he intends to cancel the vacancy instead of proceeding with the second selected candidate. A couple of weeks later, he replaced the vacancy with an international consultancy with a monthly fee of USD 5000. After he announces the vacancy, HR asks him to shortlist candidates.

Brian strongly refuses to do so and gets the approval of the Director of HR to proceed with the recruitment of the same selected candidate of the local consultant. Two contracts are attached. Same candidate, same ToRs, different value with more than 300% increase. The Director of HR intentionally ignores those violations and approves whatever his friend wants. Baker continues with his actions without any questioning by any of the Snr. Management people. He then brings another friend from UNICEF Yara Dababneh on another consultancy contract.

Less than a year later Yara receives a P4 contract with external relations with the help of Brian. The Director of HR brings in another UNICEF former colleague in a fabricated pre-planned process. Julliette Touma who holds a fake Palestinian nationality ( in reality she holds an Israeli citizenship but she was able to receive a Palestinian travel document and not a nationality). She records her nationality with UNRWA as Palestinian and she was appointed at D1 level.

Ms.Touma was originally assisted by her friend from OCHA ( David Shearer who was DSRSG for UNAMI Iraq) to become an international staff of the UN at P2 level in yet another fake process. He wanted her to move from GS6 position directly to P4 but then agreed to a P2 due to her lack of experience. After serving UNICEF regional office in Jordan, she was asked to seek another opportunity outside of UNICEF. Her friend Brusa immediately picked her up to become the spokesperson and the director of communications for UNRWA. In Syria field office, UNRWA tribunal issued a judgment related to violation and abuse of power.

A Selection of a senior staff was found incorrect by the Advisory Committee of HR. While digging into the qualifications, they discovered that the selected staff provided false information on her CV. The director of HR, Brusa lets the case rest for a couple of months and then agreed with the deputy director of Syria office to offer that same candidate a contract. One of the non selected staff appealed the decision to the tribunal and won her case. The judgment calls for accountability for those who violated the process.

Lazzarini does nothing to this date and the selected staff remains at her new job in Syria. Back to Baker. A couple of months ago following one of his staff providing a witness statement to the Tribunal, he started bullying and harassing him.

Brian also informed the witness staff thast his position was abolished. When the staff reported his case to the ethics office, the case was delayed and ignored. The staff provided additional very serious and concrete evidence to the ethics office. The case was immediately forwarded to the investigation after the ethics office concluded a prima facie case of retaliation. The decision of abolishing the post was put on hold.

Brian and because of his untouched protection by the Director of HR and by the Commissioner-General, remains working at his position. Other less serious cases are immediately put on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigation. The evidence provided to the ethics office included proof of bullying, retaliation and harassment, It also included Brian's comments about the uselessness of ethics and DIOS in his opinion.

Lazzarini, upon his arrival, assigned an official UNRWA vehicle for more than a year to be used by his wife. The car gets hit by his wife and repaired at the expense of the Agency when the accident was reported as official.

That is today's UN, with Inner City Press still banned from entering to ask these questions in person, and its December 5, 2022 appeal not even responded to. Totally corrupt.

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February 6, 2023

UN Budget Expert Hyassat Loses NY Rape Case By Default As He and UN and USUN No Show

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

SDNY COURT Exclusive, Feb 1 – A United Nations budget expert in New York drugged and raped a woman; a default judgment was awarded against him on February 1, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Inner City Press, which has been banned from the UN for asking about its sexual abuses, was there in court.

But the defendant, Mutaz Hyassat, was not. Nor was anyone from the United Nations, on whose Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions Hyassat served at the time of the rape, nor from the UN missions of Jordan nor of the United States.

The victim worked for the US Treasury Department at the time of the rape.

Hyassat lured her to El Rio Grande restaurant at 160 E. 38th Street where he plied her with a pink drink with GHB in it.

Hyassat raped her overnight. He continues to work for the Jordanian foreign ministry, as chief of legal administration, it was said on February 1. Doe was present in the courtroom.

Hyassat refused to ever answer the rape charges against him. But on February 1 Judge Paul G. Gardephe found that Hyassat's immunity as an ACABQ member was only functional, in connection with this work. Despite the pervasive corruption of the UN under SG Antonio Guterres, rape is still not part of ACABQ's work.

Judge Gardephe granted and entered a default judgment and referred it for a Magistrates' inquest on damages.

Plaintiff Jane Doe is seeking $1.25 million. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, and USG Melissa Fleming whose department keeps Inner City Press banned from entering the UN to ask, refuse to answer written questions. The case is Doe v. Hyassat, 18-cv-6110 (Gardephe)

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January 30, 2023