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    In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, Vivian Wang Pleads Guilty, Plea Agreement Here, UN Corruption Continues By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Q&A, HK here UNITED NATIONS, April 4 – Eight months after the UN bribery conviction of Macau-based businessman Ng Lap Seng, on March 30 the prosecution asked for a jail term of over six years and a $2 million fine. Now on April 4, with no advance notice, Ng's co-defendant Julia Vivi Wang pleaded guilty. Inner City Press requested and obtained the plea agreement and is putting it online on Scribd, here (and here on Patreon, as a back-up). That the deal is reportedly for her to cooperate in the future raises interesting questions; another UN bribery case, involving Patrick Ho and the China Energy Fund Committee which is still in consultative status with UN ECOSOC remains pending. The government's Ng Lap Seng sentencing filing states that "The defendant, a sophisticated, international businessman, repeatedly used his wealth and power to seek to corrupt decision-making at the United Nations. That was a choice. It warrants substantial and meaningful punishment. The defendant could have sought to persuade the UN and the UN Development Programme (“UNDP”) to support his latest project—a massive real estate development on a manmade island off the coast of Macau, China, including a conference center, luxury hotel, residential apartments, and a high-end shopping mall with brands such as Gucci, to be built by the defendant’s company—on its purported merits. But the merits of such a project are, at the very least, highly debatable. Building luxury hotels, apartments, and retail outlets may be profitable, but UNDP’s mission is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequality through sustainable, environmentally responsible development. However, whether the UN or UNDP would have approved of and supported the defendant’s project, or a portion thereof, on the merits is a question to which one cannot know the answer. Because instead of seeking approval and support on the merits, the defendant cheated. Hiding behind and misusing a nongovernmental organization that he founded and funded allegedly to help developing nations rather than himself, the defendant orchestrated and led a scheme to pay bribes to two senior UN ambassadors, one of whom was the elected leader of the UN General Assembly." Note that the next PGA, Sam Kutesa, was allegedly bribed by Patrick Ho of the China Energy Fund Committee, which is STILL in UN ECOSOC. In the UN, Ng's South South News paid money to the UN Correspondents Association, got a photo op with the Secretary General, and remained in long after Inner City Press was evicted for pursuing the story in the UN Press Briefing Room. In fact, South South News people still work in the UN. Ng's assistant Jeffrey Yin on February 28 was sentenced to seven months in prison. During the two hour sentencing argument, repeated reference was made to Yin's role in wiring money from Ng's Chinese bank to Terra Trading in Francis Lorenzo's Dominican Republic. As Inner City Press reported, El Salvador's Ambassador Carlos Garcia wrote a letter supporting the now clearly corruption transfer - and yet he is still involved in UN "Sustainable Development Goals" circles. Yet the UN is apparently not even monitoring the case and sentencing(s). On March 1 Inner City Press asked Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, video here, UN transcript here: Inner City Press: Yesterday in the Southern District Federal Court, the aide, Jeffrey Yin, to Ng Lap Seng, which was convicted of UN bribery, was sentenced to seven months in prison, and it was a long, two-hour sentencing argument in which a lot of information came out about the UN. I wanted to know whether the UN had anyone monitoring that, to ensure that those involved at the UN are held accountable, interviewed? Spokesman: It's not a question I'm able to answer right now." Why not? According to the narrative of Yin's lawy

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    In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, Vivian Wang Pleads Guilty, Plea Agreement Here, UN Corruption Continues By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Q&A, HK here UNITED NATIONS, April 4 – Eight months after the UN bribery conviction of Macau-based businessman Ng Lap Seng, on March 30 the prosecution asked for a jail term of over six years and a $2 million fine. Now on April 4, with no advance notice, Ng's co-defendant Julia Vivi Wang pleaded guilty. Inner City Press requested and obtained the plea agreement and is putting it online on Scribd, here (and here on Patreon, as a back-up). That the deal is reportedly for her to cooperate in the future raises interesting questions; another UN bribery case, involving Patrick Ho and the China Energy Fund Committee which is still in consultative status with UN ECOSOC remains pending. The government's Ng Lap Seng sentencing filing states that "The defendant, a sophisticated, international businessman, repeatedly used his wealth and power to seek to corrupt decision-making at the United Nations. That was a choice. It warrants substantial and meaningful punishment. The defendant could have sought to persuade the UN and the UN Development Programme (“UNDP”) to support his latest project—a massive real estate development on a manmade island off the coast of Macau, China, including a conference center, luxury hotel, residential apartments, and a high-end shopping mall with brands such as Gucci, to be built by the defendant’s company—on its purported merits. But the merits of such a project are, at the very least, highly debatable. Building luxury hotels, apartments, and retail outlets may be profitable, but UNDP’s mission is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequality through sustainable, environmentally responsible development. However, whether the UN or UNDP would have approved of and supported the defendant’s project, or a portion thereof, on the merits is a question to which one cannot know the answer. Because instead of seeking approval and support on the merits, the defendant cheated. Hiding behind and misusing a nongovernmental organization that he founded and funded allegedly to help developing nations rather than himself, the defendant orchestrated and led a scheme to pay bribes to two senior UN ambassadors, one of whom was the elected leader of the UN General Assembly." Note that the next PGA, Sam Kutesa, was allegedly bribed by Patrick Ho of the China Energy Fund Committee, which is STILL in UN ECOSOC. In the UN, Ng's South South News paid money to the UN Correspondents Association, got a photo op with the Secretary General, and remained in long after Inner City Press was evicted for pursuing the story in the UN Press Briefing Room. In fact, South South News people still work in the UN. Ng's assistant Jeffrey Yin on February 28 was sentenced to seven months in prison. During the two hour sentencing argument, repeated reference was made to Yin's role in wiring money from Ng's Chinese bank to Terra Trading in Francis Lorenzo's Dominican Republic. As Inner City Press reported, El Salvador's Ambassador Carlos Garcia wrote a letter supporting the now clearly corruption transfer - and yet he is still involved in UN "Sustainable Development Goals" circles. Yet the UN is apparently not even monitoring the case and sentencing(s). On March 1 Inner City Press asked Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, video here, UN transcript here: Inner City Press: Yesterday in the Southern District Federal Court, the aide, Jeffrey Yin, to Ng Lap Seng, which was convicted of UN bribery, was sentenced to seven months in prison, and it was a long, two-hour sentencing argument in which a lot of information came out about the UN. I wanted to know whether the UN had anyone monitoring that, to ensure that those involved at the UN are held accountable, interviewed? Spokesman: It's not a question I'm able to answer right now." Why not? According to the narrative of Yin's lawy

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    In UN Bribery Case of NG Lap Seng, Vivian Wang Pleads Guilty, Plea Agreement Here

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    In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, Vivian Wang Pleads Guilty, Plea Agreement Here, UN Corruption Continues By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Q&A, HK here UNITED NATIONS, April 4 – Eight months after the UN bribery conviction of Macau-based businessman Ng Lap Seng, on March 30 the prosecution asked for a jail term of over six years and a $2 million fine. Now on April 4, with no advance notice, Ng's co-defendant Julia Vivi Wang pleaded guilty. Inner City Press requested and obtained the plea agreement and is putting it online on Scribd, here (and here on Patreon, as a back-up). That the deal is reportedly for her to cooperate in the future raises interesting questions; another UN bribery case, involving Patrick Ho and the China Energy Fund Committee which is still in consultative status with UN ECOSOC remains pending. The government's Ng Lap Seng sentencing filing states that "The defendant, a sophisticated, international businessman, repeatedly used his wealth and power to seek to corrupt decision-making at the United Nations. That was a choice. It warrants substantial and meaningful punishment. The defendant could have sought to persuade the UN and the UN Development Programme (“UNDP”) to support his latest project—a massive real estate development on a manmade island off the coast of Macau, China, including a conference center, luxury hotel, residential apartments, and a high-end shopping mall with brands such as Gucci, to be built by the defendant’s company—on its purported merits. But the merits of such a project are, at the very least, highly debatable. Building luxury hotels, apartments, and retail outlets may be profitable, but UNDP’s mission is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequality through sustainable, environmentally responsible development. However, whether the UN or UNDP would have approved of and supported the defendant’s project, or a portion thereof, on the merits is a question to which one cannot know the answer. Because instead of seeking approval and support on the merits, the defendant cheated. Hiding behind and misusing a nongovernmental organization that he founded and funded allegedly to help developing nations rather than himself, the defendant orchestrated and led a scheme to pay bribes to two senior UN ambassadors, one of whom was the elected leader of the UN General Assembly." Note that the next PGA, Sam Kutesa, was allegedly bribed by Patrick Ho of the China Energy Fund Committee, which is STILL in UN ECOSOC. In the UN, Ng's South South News paid money to the UN Correspondents Association, got a photo op with the Secretary General, and remained in long after Inner City Press was evicted for pursuing the story in the UN Press Briefing Room. In fact, South South News people still work in the UN. Ng's assistant Jeffrey Yin on February 28 was sentenced to seven months in prison. During the two hour sentencing argument, repeated reference was made to Yin's role in wiring money from Ng's Chinese bank to Terra Trading in Francis Lorenzo's Dominican Republic. As Inner City Press reported, El Salvador's Ambassador Carlos Garcia wrote a letter supporting the now clearly corruption transfer - and yet he is still involved in UN "Sustainable Development Goals" circles. Yet the UN is apparently not even monitoring the case and sentencing(s). On March 1 Inner City Press asked Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, video here, UN transcript here: Inner City Press: Yesterday in the Southern District Federal Court, the aide, Jeffrey Yin, to Ng Lap Seng, which was convicted of UN bribery, was sentenced to seven months in prison, and it was a long, two-hour sentencing argument in which a lot of information came out about the UN. I wanted to know whether the UN had anyone monitoring that, to ensure that those involved at the UN are held accountable, interviewed? Spokesman: It's not a question I'm able to answer right now." Why not? According to the narrative of Yin's lawy

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    Department of Justice
    [Type text]
    United States Attorney
    Southern District of New York
    The Silvio J. Mollo Building
    One Saint Andrew’s Plaza
    New York, New York 10007

    February 20, 2018

    By Email
    Derek A. Cohen, Esq.
    Goodwin Procter LLP
    The New York Times Building
    620 Eighth Avenue
    New York, NY 10018
    (212) 459-7060
    dcohen@goodwinprocter.com

    Re: United States v. Julia Vivi Wang,


    S1 16 Cr. 495 (GBD)

    Dear Mr. Cohen:

    This prosecution and the protection against prosecution set forth below have been approved
    by the Tax Division, Department of Justice.

    On the understandings specified below, the Office of the United States Attorney for the
    Southern District of New York and the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section
    (together, “the Offices”) will accept a guilty plea from Julia Vivi Wang, a/k/a “Vivian Wang,”
    a/k/a “Vivian Pink,” a/k/a “Wang Wei” (the “defendant”) to superseding criminal information S1
    16 Cr. 495 (GBD) to be filed in three counts (the “Superseding Information”).

    Count One charges the defendant with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices
    Act (“FCPA”) from at least in or about 2012 up to and including at least in or about 2015, in
    violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. Count One carries a maximum sentence of
    five years’ imprisonment, a maximum term of three years’ supervised release, a maximum fine
    under 18 U.S.C. § 3571(d) of the greatest of $250,000, twice the gross pecuniary gain derived from
    the offense, or twice the gross pecuniary loss to persons other than the defendant, and a mandatory
    $100 special assessment.

    Count Two charges the defendant with offering, paying, promising to pay, and authorizing
    payments of bribes from at least in or about 2012 up to and including at least in or about 2015, in
    violation of the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Sections 78dd-2(a)(1)(A), 78dd-2(a)(3)(A),
    78dd-2(g)(2)(A), and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2. Count Two carries a maximum
    sentence of five years’ imprisonment, a maximum term of three years’ supervised release, a
    maximum fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3571(d) of the greatest of $250,000, twice the gross pecuniary
    gain derived from the offense, or twice the gross pecuniary loss to persons other than the defendant,
    and a mandatory $100 special assessment.

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