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.Last week, the Obama administration transferred $500 million in U.S. funds to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund. • Congress never authorized the Green Climate Fund or any appropriations to it. • The State Department must fully account for how it decided to give taxpayer dollars to a U.N. fund that Congress never authorized. -------------------------------------------- Last week, the Obama administration transferred $500 million in U.S. funds to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund. Other countries will welcome the administration’s handover of American tax dollars to subsidize their own economies. The American people will reject it as another executive power grab...

Russia in Breakthrough Over N.Korea’s Money The U.S. and Russia have apparently agreed to use a Russian commercial bank for the epically delayed transfer of North Korean assets from a Macau bank. The U.S. government is hoping that its chief negotiator Christopher Hill will therefore be able to fly to Beijing and resume stalled six-nation talks on the North’s nuclear program this week, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. North Korea has refused to return to the negotiating table until the transfer of the unfrozen assets from Banco Delta Asia is complete. According to the U.S. daily, Washington and Moscow...

May 20, 2007 Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist By CHARLES DUHIGG The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone numbers, they called World War II veterans, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and posed as government and insurance workers updating their files. Then, the criminals emptied their victims’ bank accounts. Richard Guthrie, a 92-year-old Army veteran, was one of those victims. He ended up on scam artists’ lists because his name, like millions of others, was sold by large companies to telemarketing...

U.S. finds bank to break North Korea Impasse By Nicholas Kralev | Published Yesterday | Peace and Conflict , North America , North Korea | Unrated U.S. expects fund transfer in next few days By Nicholas Kralev The Washington Times WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has found a U.S. bank willing to accept $25 million in North Korean funds, and officials hope the transfer -- the final hurdle to the closure of the North's main nuclear reactor -- can take place in the next few days, The Washington Times has learned. The resolution of the issue would end a weeks-long...