World Bank :Infinite Rules, Infinite Discretion

The American Thinker ^ | 5/03/07 | clarice feldman

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Clarice Feldman Paul Wolfowitz noted the inconsistency in the application of the World Bank's conflict of interest position. It had permitted the wife of former Bank Managing Director Zheng to remain in her position, but required that Shaha Riza, his significant other, leave the Bank.

Zheng has filed a facially preposterous response. Law professor Kenneth Anderson wrote:

The Bank's rules, according to Zhang - and presumably he should be in a position to know as the Bank's number two manager - permitted "husbands and wives to work at the bank under circumscribed conditions, which he said he followed, but that they barred anyone from having a sexual relationship with a top bank official outside of marriage." (emphasis added)

Anderson says if such a rule actually exists it would certainly discriminate against gays and wonders where the normal defenders of gay rights are on this point.

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Making it up as they go--no wonder they oppose Wolfowitz' effort to bring the rule of law to bear there.

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I want to know Zhang’s wife’s name and where she works now. He’s over at Citicorp, IIRC.

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From the WSJ:
“Now consider the case of Shengman Zhang, a former No. 2 at the bank who is currently a vice chairman for the global banking division at Citigroup. Mr. Zhang, whose name appears third on the list of signatories, is the husband of Lingzhi Xu, a World Bank employee who began her career as an assistant working in procurement issues—a “Level D” position with a “market-reference point” of $52,000—and was ultimately promoted to her current job—a “Level G-G” high-level staff position with a reference point of $123,000. “
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:bq0Z6JsVW_kJ:www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bstephens/%3Fid%3D110010012+Zhang+World+Bank+wife&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

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The Bank which has looked the other way while nasty leaks about Wolfowitz and Riza pour out of there, has forbidden Riza from telling her side of the story publicly. Par for the course, some Directors wanted to decide the matter w/out even allowing them to present evidence .
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010024