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Posted on 12/19/2006 6:57:34 AM PST by george76
As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still in use by the family of his brother, Kobina Annan.
The apartment was where Mr. Annan and his wife lived before 1997, when he became secretary-general.
The Roosevelt Island home is part of an estate of low-rent state-regulated housing.
For years, the Annans saved considerable sums by occupying an apartment meant to help financially strapped low- to moderate-income New York families.
One question Mr. Annan has never addressed is why he and his wife felt comfortable availing themselves of this generous arrangement.
Another is how it is that, since Mr. Annan and his wife left that Roosevelt Island apartment 10 years ago to move into the rent-free residence on Sutton Place supplied to the secretary-general, their former low-rent apartment was handed over to be occupied by the family of Mr. Annan's brother.
This kind of apartment, part of a state-regulated housing development program called Mitchell-Lama, is subject to strict eligibility requirements, involving family size and financial ceilings on combined family income.
There is also a requirement that the leaseholder make continuous use of the apartment as a primary residence.
The effective New York state subsidies for such an apartment appear to be large.
Roosevelt Island sits in the East River, with a view of the United Nations. The residences are part of a quiet enclave with a riverside promenade, just a few minutes from high-rent Midtown.
The apartment in question, a three-bedroom unit on the ninth floor, appears from the outside to have a river view looking out on Manhattan...
Market rates...about $4,500 a month.
A subsidized apartment... under $2,000 a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
I can understand this. I'm sure the Annans were cash-strapped ever since the oil-4-food gravy train was derailed.
Corruption at the UN ?
Who knew ?
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God bless Claudia Rosett.
Yet another instance of Kofi Annan's and the UN's absolute total corruption.
I hope he leaves our country immediately. Deport him back to his african paradise. Take his whole corrupt clan with him.
Annan is a thug. What's to be surprised at? The only surprise is that the MSM would print this story.
It is good old fashioned greed and corruption by the world-class grifters in one of the world's most notorious criminal organizations, the UN.
It's not her first attack on Koffi and the Undeniable Noythings.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzU0NzE3YTZhNzNmNThmYzc4NDlhMGNmNGEwMTZhMGE=
Claudia Rosett ping :)
I know. I love this lady!
HA!!
Compared to what Kofi & Co were used to living in back in da hood?
...it was the Taj Mahal.
She is a true investigative reporter. I doubt that the NY Times or Washington Post have anyone on the staff who can come close to her work. She is so good at what she does, in exposing leftists for the frauds that they are, that the Pulitzer committee must be working overtime to ensure that she doesn't get the prize...
"One question Mr. Annan has never addressed is why he and his wife felt comfortable availing themselves of this generous arrangement."
No need to address the question, inasmuch as the answer is self-evident: Kofi Annan is as corrupt and parasitic an individual as is the organization he served.
"Corruption at the UN ?"
Ask the democrats. Bolton would have cleaned the mess up. The liberals would not allow Bolton to stay and finish his job.
Don't forget the blind eye towards Sudan.
Hey! I want that place!
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