EDNY
/ UN GATE, March 3
-- As
Goldman Sachs Tim Leissner was
being cross-examined for the
second day, the extent of the
corruption of the United Arab
Emirates began to come into view,
at least for Kurt.
Leissner said he had
carried a letter about bribes
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib
(via Jho Low) to be delivered to
AUE Sheikh Mansour. Leissner told
his Goldman partners that he had
given the letter directly to
Mansour. But that UAE royal
wouldn't get out of bed for less
than a million dollars. So it was
at the mansion of Khadem Al
Qubaisi that the letter was given,
Leissner now said.
But what was the color of
Khadem Al Qubaisi's mansion? Uh,
light, Leissner said.
So not blue, Roger Ng's
lawyer snarked. Did it have a
gate?
I don't remember, Leissner
said.
He was hobnobbing around in
the Emirates Palace, meeting with
Abu Dhabi royal wealth funds,
paying bribes these corruptos
didn't even need. But why not take
them?
Kurt was in the back row of
the EDNY overflow courtroom,
taking notes by hand since he had
to leave his phone down in the
media room on the third floor. From
there he watched the UN "press"
conferences he was banned
from.
The United Arab Emirates,
in the form and face of Ambassador
Lana Nusseibeh, was the president
of the UN Security Council. Twice
the UAE abstained on Ukraine.
Kurt
emailed their Mission to the UN to
ask about it and 1MDB, and to ask
for the WebEx code to attend
Nusseibeh's press conference.
Nothing, no answer at all. On UNTV
Nusseibeh blathered about the
UAE's commitment on climate
change, propaganda that another UN
censor was there for months
doing, silent on political
opponents locked up and Uighurs
returned by the UAE to China for
"re-education" or worse. It was to
this that Kurt would turn - and he
hoped he could get lawyer Michael
Randall Long and his new Malaysian
client to work with him.
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The UAE's role in the
1MDB rip-off went beyond the
Sheikh Mansour letter that Tim
Leissner had on him when he was
arrested at Dulles Airport in
2018. Najib has called the Crown
Prince himself, Mohammed bin
Zayad al Nahyan and cooked up a
scheme to cover up for his
stepson, who funded The Wolf of
Wall Street.
In Malaysia, Najib went
to jail. In the UAE, Sheikh
Mansour was in charge of the
Judicial Department. Only the
fall guy Khad al Qubaissy, like
Roger Ng, was put in the dock
(in his case, in jail), along
with Mohammed Badaway Al
Husseiny.
So why were they no
answers to the press from the
UAE Mission on 46th Street, from
Lana Nusseibeh or her stand-in
for abstentions Mohamed
Abushahab? And what was their
role in these rip offs? #The
WeaselOfWallStreet
Kurt had first heard
of Jho Low while still in
the UN, before he was thrown
out. Jho Low appeared at a
UN press conference in front
of the ubiquitous and now
defiled logo.
#TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st
in a new series
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