A Scandal at the UN

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

David Fahrenthold is a reporter who works for the New York Times. In his capacity as a reporter at the Washington Post, he reported on misdeeds within the Trump financial universe, and now he’s come out with a story in the Times about a peculiar financial scandal at the United Nations. It’s about a little known UN agency trusting tens of millions of dollars to a relatively unknown British businessman and the investment not quite working out. Jacob Schulz talked with David about his story and about the broader world at the United Nations that enabled this to happen.

After running this episode, Lawfare received a letter from lawyers representing David and Daisy Kendrick disputing some of the representations in the discussion that follows. To address their concerns, we’ve posted excerpts stating the positions of Mr. and Ms. Kendrick on this episode’s show page, which you can find at http://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-scandal-un.

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1:02.0	The first thing they do is in 2017 when Daisy Kendrick is just out of college.
1:12.0	They give her what it originally known as a $5 million grant
1:16.0	and then she gets $3 million to a charity and nonprofit that she had started
1:20.0	like a year earlier. A really small charity.
1:24.0	This gives you a sense of how small it was.
1:28.0	She incorporated three directors including herself.
1:32.0	The other two directors told this later that they had never heard of it.
1:36.0	That's how small this organization was.
1:38.0	The UN gives this group $3 million to raise awareness about the oceans,
1:42.0	to produce a pop song, to produce a video game.
1:46.0	That was the strange things. People at the UN were like,
1:48.0	out of all the groups in the world that have networks that know how to get awareness about the oceans.
1:54.0	You gave $3 million to a college grant, you know, just 23 year old to do this why.
2:00.0	After that, they started giving loans to her father.
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