Amid UN80 Pay to Play UN Staff Write to Inner City Press Versus OIOS and USUN Mike Waltz

Amid UN80 Pay to Play UN Staff Write to Inner City Press Versus OIOS and USUN Mike Waltz by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack UN GATE, Oct 16 – How corrupt is today's UN under Antonio Guterres? His staff tell Inner City Press things have hit a new low about which his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse all Press questions. There is consensus among UN staff across all departments and section that the most corrupt department in todays UN is OIOS. UNDT ruling 099-2026 has found serious flaws in the way OIOS conducted that investigation.  Worse this is not the exception but the rule. Worst, no one in OIOS has been or will be held accountable. It’s senior management, Aruna Thanabalasingam, James Finis, Jason Uliana, Martha Helena, Lopes, Fatoumata Ndiaye, Suzette Schulz and Michael Dudley run a terror organization in which the investigators, OIOS willing executioners, are allowed to behave like police thugs in most repressive regimes threading staff, using information selectively, ignoring key information and breaking due process guarantees (some of their names will soon be disclosed). It is shameful that for OIOS staff is guilty until proven innocent and that is because OIOS is a weapon at the service of Management to get rid of whistleblowers and others. Department focal points for OIOS often have a lot to hide but they enjoy a privileged relationship. Unfortunately no one in OIOS has been held accountable. They continue enjoying their fat salaries, or counting the days for retirement like useless and biased Martha Helena Lopes, while they destroy the lives of staff many of whom have spent their career in hardship duty stations, others have dared to expose corruption in Geneva or New York. For OIOS the investigation is not about possible misconduct but about individuals uncomfortable to UN senior management. Very rarely UN senior management is investigated, unless SG wants to get rid of him/she.  OIOS is tool of repression and terror, with practices comparable to those of internal security agencies in totalitarian states and with no judicial oversight. OIOS spends years in petty investigations aimed at targeted staff yet serios issues like cholera in Haiti, sexual violence in DRC or CAR or money waste never get investigated. This is todays UN. Worse, not a single UN SG candidate has mentioned reforming OIOS as part of their programs. Why? It will be useful to keep a dirty branch when needed. @AmbWaltz, @AmbStaggerda, will you turn a blind eye to OIOS? Apparently yes. To censorship too. This is about inequitable cuts at UN ESCAP in Thailand: Dear Matthew Russell Lee,  The plan for abolishment from UN-ESCAP  is directed only at GS staff, while senior positions—P-5, D-1, D-2, and USG—remain untouched. The salary of a single one of these officials is equivalent to that of fifty or more local staff members. If justice truly mattered, it would be these high-level posts under review—not the livelihoods of ordinary staff. Many of these officials are beyond retirement age, largely inactive in their offices, while their administrative assistants act more like personal aides or cooks than contributors to the Organization’s actual work.  This is not about fairness—it is about selfishness and corruption. Guterres and his team have revealed themselves as weak, wicked, and corrupt. They cling to their privileges while sacrificing the most vulnerable staff, simply because they hold the power to decide.  It is therefore no surprise that more and more staff are coming to agree that the UN has become useless, especially under the failed leadership of Guterres.  Guterres appears increasingly surrounded by what staff describe as “phone-call human resource advisors and legal officers.”    Martha Helena Lopez, the Secretary-General’s senior advisor on human resources, has become emblematic of this “don’t care” policy. Observers note she looks fatigued, more focused on retirement than on strengthening governance. Rather than engaging with tribunal rulings, she and her team have defaulted to what staff now mockingly call “phone-call directives,” issuing guidance over the phone without regard to established precedent or proper review.  In New York, staff have started referring to her and her legal colleagues as “phone-call officers and advisors” because of their casual approach to matters of grave consequence. Their advice to the Secretary-General effectively shields misconduct from judicial scrutiny, entrenches his culture of impunity.  Guterres, they say, should end censorship. Application was made on June 19, 2025. Watch this site. *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. 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