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To: long-gone who wrote (94049)	3/12/2003 8:46:34 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

Blowing $1 Billion or Blowing The Whistle? Congress Must Hear Full Story of U.N. Corruption Washington, D.C. -- October 4, 1999: It was disclosed today that U.N. whistleblower Linda Shenwick, who has first-hand information about financial corruption at the United Nations, is eager and willing to tell her story before the U.S. Congress. But Cliff Kincaid, president of the public policy group America's Survival, said the hearing must take place before the House votes another $1 billion to the U.N. "Congress and the American people have a right to know how billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted at the U.N. before more money is once again thrown at the world organization," Kincaid said. He called for Shenwick to be reinstated to her job at the U.N. as a budget analyst so that Congress can monitor what's being done with the U.S. dollars already flowing there. He added, "No more money should be sent to the U.N. until Linda Shenwick gets her old job back and those who persecuted her are made to pay for punishing her for telling the truth to Congress about U.N. mismanagement, waste and fraud." Shenwick, a career public servant who served at the U.S. mission to the U.N., was railroaded out of her position by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who didn't want to hear about U.N. financial corruption, including the loss of $3.9 million in cash left on a table in Somalia. Shenwick was locked out of her office and given the boot and her salary was terminated. She has been without a paycheck for four months as her legal counsel, Victoria Toensing, seeks justice in the case. Senator Charles Grassley has held up hearings on several Clinton Ambassadorial nominees until the State Department stops its punitive measures against Shenwick. The House voted 287-136 on July 21 to condemn Albright's persecution of Shenwick. "The House must now seek justice by refusing to vote another dime for the U.N. until Shenwick is in a position to monitor these funds," Kincaid said. usasurvival.org