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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 ...
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The enclave is known for its heavy concentration of U.N. staff, many of whom receive U.N. housing allowances on top of whatever savings they might enjoy at the expense of New York state taxpayers...
Cash in the freezer?.......
The secretary-general misled the press for years about the nature of his son's business involvement with the Oil-for-Food program...
What idiots
Starving kids in Iraq, making poor people homeless in the US, letting 800,000 people of color get slaughtered in Rwanda, it's the UN way.
Amazing. I couldn't even afford the "subsidized" rent rate.
When are we going to wake up to the corruption?
US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
Not just the New York taxpayers covering kofi, but also many other foreign UN staffers, too.
Total SCUM!
Oh, you're gonna love this story. More UN corruption.
Kofi should , at least, thank us for the subsidized rent...
You forgot UN sanctioned rape.....
"One question Mr. Annan has never addressed is why he and his wife felt comfortable availing themselves of this generous arrangement." Could it be because he's a corrupt bastard and we've never bothered to curtail his thievery? The people who should be answering this question are the people who run the housing authority. Why are these people getting double subsidies from NY and US taxpayers? How many Americans are on the waiting list for these apartments?
What's this? Kofi Annan is corrupt? I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
FYI..the buggest, and least publicized, UN financial scandal is that US citizens who are employees of the UN receive complete 100% reimbursement by the UN for all of the federal income taxes they pay each year.
When asked at a press conference last year about a Mercedes that his son shipped into Ghana in 1998 under false use of the secretary-general's name and the U.N. seal, Mr. Annan ducked the question by accusing the reporter of being a bad journalist.
Why should any non-US citizen be allowed to have US taxpayer subsidized housing? This is a real scandal.
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