UNITED
NATIONS, July
27 -- The lack
of
accountability
in this UN is
pervasive and
requires
intervention
from outside
-- sometimes,
as
this week, in
the form of a
NYPD patrol
car.
In
the big
picture, on Haiti,
with the UN
again telling
Inner City
Press
on
July 26 that
the claims of
those killed
by the cholera
the UN
brought
are "still not
receivable,"
even after its
initial
panel of
scientists
turned on
them, the time
for outside
litigation
has arrived.
But
inside, as
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported
and then asked
on July 22,
the
deputy
position in
the UN Pension
Fund is on the
cusp of being
given
to a person,
Paul Dooley,
previously
named by the
UN's own
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services as
meriting
discipline for
procurement
impropriety.
From the UN's
July 22
transcript:
Inner
City Press: I
wanted to ask
you what the
Secretary-General’s
role
is in
approving
recommendations
of the top or
the number two
position
in the Pension
Fund, and
whether it is
the case that
the candidate
of
the deputy
position for
the Pension
Fund is
somebody that
was named
in an OIOS
[Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services]
report as
someone
being engaged
in financial
impropriety
and discipline
was
recommended
at the time,
and whether
this would be
any factor in
the
Secretary-General’s
review of
giving out
this financial
position.
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky: I’d
have to check
on that,
Matthew.
Having
no answer
three days
later, Inner
City Press ran
at 12:03 to
the noon
briefing --
only to be
told it was
over, and
would not be
re-opened.
After the Free UN Coalition for Access pressed,
two
spokespeople
could
questions
off-camera in
their office.
On Dooley and
the Pension
Fund, Inner
City Press was
told that some
"language" was
being come up
with. Two days
later,
nothing.
The
past Dooley
issues --
there's said
to be an
unrelated
present one --
involved
procurement.
As Inner City
Press exclusively
reported after
obtaining the
OIOS report:
"in
Investigative
Report
0543/05, OIOS
found that the
Pension Fund's
Paul
Dooley, with
the assistance
of the Fund's
Dulcie Bull
and UN
Procurements
Sanjaya Bahel,
had improperly
awarded the
Pension Fund's
information
technology
contracts to
Mr. Dooley's
ex-boss. OIOS
specifically
recommended
that 'action
be taken
against' Mr.
Dooley,
Ms. Bull and
Mr. Bahel."
Bahel
went to jail.
This week, in
part to elicit
more
information,
Inner
City Press
took and
tweeted of
photograph of
a rare
occurrence: a
New
York Police
Department
patrol car
inside the UN,
parked in
front of
the
Secretariat
Building next
to the (empty)
fountain, click here
for the
Tweeted
photograph,
and here
for another.
There are more;
there were
other NYPD
(and even
Federal)
entries.
One of the
NYPD cars at
UN, July 25,
2013, (c) M R
Lee
Now
an interim
update -- a
range of UN
staff tell
Inner City
Press of
arresting
officers and
handcuffs
inside the UN,
and
injunctions to
be
more careful
about
procurement.
We'll have
more on this
-- for now we
note, a non-consensual
raid on an
office,
the riffling
through of a
journalist's
files, both
the taking
and the
leaking of
photographs
thereof, even
or especially
when later
sought to
silence
and then
falsely
denied,
including
through
falsification
of official
documents --
these all too
can be
crimes. Watch
this site.
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