Monday, October 12, 2026

As UN Bans Inner City Press for 3090th Day Nothing on Vanshelboim or Zampolli from Farhan Haq



As UN Bans Inner City Press for 3090th Day Nothing on Vanshelboim or Zampolli from Farhan Haq

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Oct 5 – Inner City Press remains banned from UN Headquarters since July 2018, with no hearing and no appeal, and its July 25, 2026 application to enter in person and ask questions was summarily denied on September 29, after Inner City Press asked some of the questions below. Until then, it had drawn no response from either Secretary-General Guterres' office or the U.S. Mission, despite Ambassador Michael Waltz's own "Make the UN Great Again" rhetoric.

Submitted on the morning of October 5, 2026 to UN spokespeople, Farhan Haq, Stephane Dujarric, Antonio Guterres, Amina J. Mohammed, Melissa Fleming, et al:

Oct 5-1: On UN corruption and cover-ups, what are the comments and action if any of SG Guterres, and separately USUN / PR Waltz and Greek PR, on the now unsealed indictment against Vitaly Vanshelboim of UNOPS, first reported by Inner City Press?

Oct 5-1a: On alleged rapes by UN diplomats what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres, and separately USUN / PR Waltz and Greek PR, on the case against Paolo Zampolli, previously DPR of Dominica and congratulating SG Guterres and the 2026 UNGA week you banned Inner City Press from? See, e.g, Oct 5, 2026, Daily Beast, "Model Agent Who Claims He Introduced Trump to Melania Is Accused of Rape," byTom Latchem, "The complaint, first reported on by Inner City Press, alleges she reported the incident to the NYPD," https://www.thedailybeast.com/model-agent-paolo-zampolli-who-claims-he-introduced-trump-to-melania-accused-of-rape/ and the questions each of you have left unanswered as Inner City Press has asked them.

  Oct 5-c: Please immediately provide the reasoning for MALU's Sept 29 denial of my July 25, 2026 application https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28515554-application-amid-un-secretary-general-transition-inner-city-press-applies-again-for-accreditation-here/ UN in full:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: malu@un.org (via Indico.UN) <dgacm-noreply-indico@un.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Subject: [Indico] United Nations media accreditation declined
To: <matthew.lee@innercitypress.com>

Dear Matthew Lee,

We regret to inform you that your media accreditation request has not been approved.

Follow what is happening at the UN with these resources:  

http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/resources.shtml

With kind regards,

Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit (MALU)
www.un.org/malu • malu@un.org • @UNMediaLiaison • +1-212-963-6934

Oct 5-1d - Again, will the Greek Mission (cc-ed here) confirm or deny what Greek media Ekathimerini is reporting, that Feridun Sinirlioglu is campaigning for SG? Any comment from SG Guterres, given the posts he gave Sinirlioglu

After the briefing, open to a UN Correspondent who did a fundraiser with Ghislaine Maxwell, devoted to softball questions about FAO and plague in Russia nothing - not even an acknowledgment of receipt.

Days previous: What inquiry if any did the UN do after the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, and Amir Dossal's service as 1 of 5 people on her Terramar Foundation's board? On what basis does Mr. Dossal (unlike Inner City Press which reports on sex trafficking and the UN) have access to the UN, for example yesterday at Ivonne A-Baki's stakeout? What was his role there, and in her team? What type of UN entrance pass does Mr. Dossal have?

Inner City Press will continue to ask these questions daily, and to report the silence when that is the answer. Watch this site.

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