By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN- Review
EDNY STREET / UN GATE, March 4 -- The blocked-off street in front of the EDNY courthouse was the scene of perp walks big and small, easier to film that dodges through Worth Street traffic at SDNY (an art form Sarah Palin had improved on each day of her two week trial, and Avenatti had side-stepped by walking west to his now and again Federal Defenders' office).
For bailed 1MDB defendant Roger Ng, the crowd of photographers was getting thinner as the trial ended its second week. It was nothing like the flotilla that had accompanied even just the prosecutors of R.Kelly, who was never seen outside since he was transported by the Marshals from lock-up in Chicago to the MDC in Brooklyn.
But then there are been Tom Barrack.
Kurt had been there in the summer of 2021, obligatory COVID mask on, as photographers lined up for this billionaire brought low, lower than Jho Low.
Barrack and two others were indicted for secret lobbying for the United Arab Emirates, a foreign influence scheme not unlike those of today's bad-boy Putin, but for the UAE run by Crown Prince MBZ and, it had so far been reported, the UAE Ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba.
But what about the UAE Ambassador to the UN, Lana Nusseibeh? She had been at the UN since 2013, overlapping with Kurt there for five years before he was targeted and roughed up by Antonio Guterres' guards and banned ever since by Melissa Fleming.
And Nusseibeh, now being portrayed by the UN's (and Fleming's) press corps as some sort of trailblazer, had worked for the UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2009, and was now Associate Foreign Minister.
What was her role in the indicted crimes of Tom Barrack? As in the case of CEFC China Energy's Patrick Ho (who was jailed) and his bribees Sam Kutesa and Antonio Guterres (attempted), who were not, those who ran Barrack like a puppet had yet to be indicted. Or had it just not been unsealed yet?
Oh but there was diplomatic immunity, and the bipartisan collusion with oil rich Gulf States by both US political parties. The UAE and their UN Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh had not put all of their eggs in the Barrack basket.
The UAE had hedged by having Bill Clinton at a fundraiser, just as now-in-China Jho Low had, along with the Fugees' Pras, illegally funneled money to the left, like Jho Low to IRIN and the UN Foundation ("only three million," they said they got, and deleted the web page) and the UN itself.
So the UAE royals and Nusseibeh had helped Jho Low rip off Malaysians, and the UN and affiliates now kept stolen money; the UAE and Nusseibeh had paid Barrack to secretly lobby and more in the US.
Yet none of this was being asked inside the UN of Nussbeibeh, now the President of the UN Security Council, abstaining on Ukraine. This was corruption and censorship. #TheWeaselOfWallStreet.
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
Inner City Press is also covering US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a story here, song here
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