| A Half Dozen
UN Fat Cats But Surface Barely Scratched
Amid Failure on Ukraine by Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY UN GATE,
April 17 –
Today's UN was full of
corruption and it was time to
publish it systematically. He
knew his time was short. He
published as he produced, or
as he researched. On this one
he started with a half dozen
UN fat cats.
First was the one who had kept
him banned for all this time,
refusing even to answer a
letter Fed-Exed to her by the
pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel: Melissa Fleming. She
was banking with Charles
Schwab, while doxing refugee
children and relently
censoring any criticism of the
UN or, in particular, her boss
Big Tony Guterres. Was there
anything between them? People
had speculated. But it wasn't
her, dead and dumped in Hunts
Point, as Kurt Wheelock fresh
from the Larry Ray trial
investigated.
After no response
- no surprise - Kurt moved
down that line.
There was a Ukrainian UN
official, strangely silent
during this war: Vitaly
Vanshelboim. Had he been one
of the at least 25 UN
officials who had been ordered
by Melissa Fleming's
Department of Global
Communications to not call
what happened there a war or
even invasion?
No
way to know, since Fleming and
spokesman Stephane Dujarric -
who did not make any public
financial disclosure, from his
penthouse on 86th Street nor
his spread in the Hamptons -
refused to answer.
Vanshelboim owned two
residential properties in
Ukraine. What was their
condition now? He also banked
with Citibank, still in
Russia. Calling it playing
both sides off against the
middle, while he stole money
from a housing program at
UNOPS, in Ghana and elsewhere.
He was classic UN. But he has
only one of many.
Another
global go-getter, hired by the
UN in the previous political
era, former South Carolina
governor David Beasley, now
growing out his beard and
shooting selfies and
glad-handing with Dujarric. He
owned multiple properties and
invested in First Carolina
Bancshares, took loans from
them too. A conflict of
interest? The UN was full of
them.
Alicia
Barcena, a decade in her job
in Santiago after having
threatened to oust Kurt from
the UN for the first time when
he dug into another mysterious
UN death, that of a woman who
went out a window and died
beyond the Glass House, Maria
Gabriela Di Biase.
Barcena owned two properties
in Mexico, and owned the UN in
Chile outright - also a good
friend of Honduras now ex
president and narcotrafficker
Juan Orlando Hernandez, about
to be extradited to the United
States and SDNY where Kurt was
waiting for him.
With Amina J.
Mohammed, Guterres' deputy,
the corruption was right on
the surface, barely veiled.
The very week she was supposed
to show back up at the UN for
her new job - she had talked
trash about Ban Ki-moon but
that was nothing anymore,
given what Guterres was doing
-- Amina J. Mohammed had
stayed in Nigeria, backdating
thousands of certificates for
endangered rosewood from there
and Cameroon to be sent to
China. She owned no fewer than
seven properties in Nigeria.
And what was being done in
them?
Last
for now, or most recent, was
Guterres' new chief of staff
or chef de cabinet Courtenay
Rattray. He had blocked Inner
City Press on Twitter since
even beginning this job, back
when he was Jamaica's
ambassador to the UN and
palling around at fashion
shows of models in the UN
Delegates Dining Room. Some of
those went missing too. His
properties and stock were in
Jamaicia, and in the Scotia
group. It was global and he
would continuing until this
situation was resolved. It
could take a while.
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