United Nations Probes Sale of Irreplaceable Stamp Archive
Co-Authored with George Russell Amid the many scandals at the United Nations, a new mystery now looms. What happened to the world organization's unique and valuable postal...
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How Corrupt is the United Nations?
Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...
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Old Ties Resurface in New Annan Project at U.N.
Coauthored by George Russell NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has just tabled ostensibly radical proposals for reform, at a proposed cost of mo...
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Cash-for-Kofi
The U.N. secretary-general wins a half-million dollar prize in Dubai.
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The Blow-Up
Annan insults and distracts.
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The U.N.-Touchables
If you thumb through the U.N. portion of this pile, however, the real agenda seems to be that once the member states have failed to reach meaningful agreement, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will w...
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Benon Sevan’s Finest Hour
Late in the day, former Oil-for-Food chief demands the U.N. open its books.
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U.N. Mystery Man: Who Is Jean-Bernard Merimee and What’s His Oil-for-Food Tie?
As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.’s executive...
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D.A. Pursuing Criminal Probe of Aide at U.N.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, the DA's office has just confirmed for t...
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Release of Secret Documents Offers Look at Efforts To Stop Corruption
A new window has opened into the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, with the release by congressional investigators of formerly secret U.S. documents chronicling some of the efforts by the American and B...
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Congressional Team and Volcker Committee Wrangle Over Secret Evidence About Annan
The hottest question right now in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is who has rights to boxfuls of secret evidence concerning the secretary-general of the world body, Kofi Annan. Congressional inves...
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Stale Kofi
Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has alread...
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The Real Refugee Scandal
So prolific in scandal has the United Nations become that it's getting hard to keep tabs. You can surf the channels, from rape by peacekeepers in the Congo, to theft at the World Meteorologi...
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Kofi Annan’s Silence
On February 3, the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, issued its first interim report. Volcker's most lurid...
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Oil-for-Food Audits Reveal Sevan as Mysterious Manager
Perhaps Paul Volcker (search), head of the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, was speaking solely of graft when he said recently that the internal audits of Oil...
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Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion?
Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo...
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Contracts Chief Shown To Be Annan Son’s Main Cotecna Tie
UNITED NATIONS - The next chapter of the Kofi Annan saga will focus on whether there was any real substance to the job for which the secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan, received lucrative p...
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Go Ahead, Make Our Day
If Kofi Annan keeps his job, the upside is that we are going to learn a lot more about what ails the United Nations. Secretary-General Annan may not be the only cause of the secretive and self-se...
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Secretary and Son
Kofi Annan Isn't Kojo's Keeper, But He Can't Shirk Responsibility For the U.N.
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Annan’s Son Took Payments Through 2004
One of the next big chapters in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal will involve the family of the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, whose son turns out to have been receiving payments as recent...