Matthew Russell Lee

Identity Thieves: A Tale of Fraud of the UN to West Africa via SDNY, Kurt Wheelock and Cars Matthew Russell Lee

A criminal case about stolen cars sold to fake buys to launder funds for dictators' crackdowns in Biafra and Cameroon leads to the United Nations, where Amina J. Mohammed has just been re-named as Deputy Secretary General to Antonio Guterres, who roughs up and bans the Press that asks. The stream of money from the identity theft scheme gets around the audits of the International Monetary Fund to reach governments cracking down on Ambazonian separatists and civilian protesters. Criminal lawyer Michael Randall Long is assigned the case of Mohammed Bande, who says Amina will protect him from the Southern District of New York prosecutors, using the UN's diplomatic immunity. But things end up badly in the MDC for Bande, and for Kurt Wheelock, the UN-banned blogger who follow the case...