{"id":532,"date":"2009-02-12T06:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T06:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2009-02-12T06:39:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T06:39:03","slug":"fiscal_irresponsibility_as_a_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal Irresponsibility As A Worldwide Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/claudiarosett\/cash-for-sevan-oil-for-food-rises-from-the-un-sludge\/\">Pajamas Media<\/a>, the UN &#8216;s highest internal judicial body has decided to pay legal fees to former Oil-for-Food chief is Benon Sevan.&nbsp; Acording to the article, Benpm Sevan is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the same UN Oil-for-Food food program that he ran from 1997-2003. Sevan was also accused in an August, 2005 report from&nbsp;the UN-authorized&nbsp;Oil-for-Food inquiry, run by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker,&nbsp;of having profited &#8220;corruptly&#8221; &#8212; to the tune of some $147,000 in cash&nbsp;&#8211; from oil deals obtained via the UN program. Months before that,&nbsp;Norm Coleman&#8217;s&nbsp;Senate subcommittee investigation into Oil-for-Food had made similar allegations, with Coleman stating at a Feb. 14, 2005 hearing: &#8220;As a former prosecutor, I believe that clear and direct evidence establishes probable casue that Benon Sevan broke the law.&#8221;&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Sevan left New York before the Volcker Committee gave its final report and is living peacefully on Cyprus.&nbsp; According to the Associated Press, Sevan and his lawyers are seeking&nbsp; $880,300, plus interest.<\/p>\n<p>Just a note.&nbsp; The US remains the single largest financial supporter of the UN.&nbsp; In 2005, the US contributed about 4.3 billion to the UN.&nbsp; These numbers came from the <strong>CRS Report for Congress&#8211;United Nations System Funding:&nbsp; Congressional Issues<\/strong>.&nbsp; I guess my real question is, &#8220;Why in the world are we still supporting these people?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Pajamas Media, the UN &#8216;s highest internal judicial body has decided to pay legal fees to former Oil-for-Food chief is Benon Sevan.&nbsp; Acording to the article, Benpm Sevan is: &#8220;charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}