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May 7th, 2008 10:58 am

How the UN in NY Handles Its Own Security, and America’s — Watch and Weep

Immune to U.S. law, and now getting a $2 billion renovation of its headquarters where thousands of international staff work in NY, the UN acts as a gaping portal into America for who-knows-what. Among the culprits nabbed in recent years, in cases in which the evidence of wrong-doing was so rife that the UN Secretary-General took the rare and entirely discretionary action of waiving their immunity, there have been perpetrators of money laundering, bribery and visa scams on UN letterhead. On the broader front, there was the buzz of activity with which private agents of Saddam Hussein — hauling bags of cash – fringed the UN Oil-for-Food program, and of course such howlers as the UN Development Program quietly providing funds to fly officials of the North Korean government, business class, to its board meetings in NY — this being the same nuclear-proliferating North Korean government that was recently caught by U.S. Senate investigators laundering money in 2002 through UN-related accounts. Now, Fox 5 News takes an in-depth look at one of the UN security guards, video here. She says she’s done no wrong, and doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They report. What will the UN decide?   

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1. Ron Kean:

On top of this, how about that UN school principal in Gaza by day and bomb maker by night? I wrote my senator again. Now this?

May 8, 2008 - 4:52 pm 2. bourne2y:

Hello again,

Thanks for sharing the well-done Fox 5 report; I’ve moved from NYC and don’t see the local news any more and I miss it. Here’s another tidbit that wasn’t reported:

Holders of G-4 visas do NOT pay U.S. taxes on their UN earnings. That’s true not only for Ms. Noray, but to every single UN employee who holds the G-4 visa.

Nice job perk – eh?

The tax waiver is only for G-4’s. It does not apply for U.S. citizens, or to UN employees who hold a green card.

All career-UN employees stationed in NYC who are not U.S. citizens have a choice: G-4 or Green Card. Which choice would you suppose is more popular?

May 10, 2008 - 6:46 am

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