Former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe accepted more than $500,000 in bribes from a Chinese real estate mogul and other businesspeople in exchange for help obtaining lucrative investments and government contracts, according to federal court documents unsealed Tuesday.
In exchange for the money, federal prosecutors say Ashe used his position as Permanent Resident to the United Nations for Antigua and Barbuda and General Assembly head to introduce a U.N. document in support of a real estate project being developed by Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng. The scheme unfolded over the course of nearly three years, from 2011 through 2014, and included his tenure as General Assembly head.
Tell me your friends and I will tell you who you are. It is not yet christmas and you are already going wreck-a-pom-pom’
Tell me who you resemble. but I will not tell who you are.
This idiot Antiguan don’t read newspapers? He aint heard about his adopted countryman Sir Allan Stanford doing 110 years in jail for frauds, embezzlement, ponzi you name it. You mean he didn’t hear about FIFA’s Warner and Webb both facing rest of their lives in USA prison. You’ve got to keep up with the news Ash if you don’t you could end up like you. The Antigua PM who place him at the UN got some explaining to do he’s also implicated. What of the current PM in Antigua? Did his name get call? Gotta check the newspapers.
HONG KONG — High-level support had been building in the United Nations for a multi-billion dollar Macau convention center project at the heart of a U.S. corruption investigation in the months before the case came to light.
” A meeting in Macau in late August of some 200 delegates from 50 countries, including the prime minister of Dominica and several U.N. ambassadors, ended with an endorsement of the “creation of a permanent South-South Expo [Center] in Macau,” according to the website of the U.N. Office for South-South Cooperation, which organized the event.”
Read up on : http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/UN-body-backed-Macau-deal-in-corruption-case
That seem, look, smell pretty much similar the FIFA Bobol. You all remember the Honourable Jack Austin Warner from Trinidad and Tobago, and, you remember FIFA President BLATTER?
But ay ay God have mercy on us… that is the same Antiguan man that was in Macau in China with Prime Minister Skerrit during the passage of Tropical Storm Erika. They were signing some kind of agreement with the same Lapsent man they also arrest in the United States of America.
Oh my God hat is going on here
“The cancer of corruption that plagues too many local and state governments infects the United Nations as well,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. “United in greed, the defendants allegedly formed a corrupt alliance of business and government, converting the UN into a platform for profit.”
Bharara acknowledged most of that money remains unaccounted for, and said that case remains under investigation
As part of the accused scheme, prosecutors said, he was treated to a vacation in an $850-a-night suite in New Orleans and a $30,000 private basketball court in Dobbs Ferry. He spent $59,000 on hand-tailored suits (skerro boy), $54,000 on two Rolexes, $40,000 on BMW payments and $69,000 to join a luxury vacation club.
Ash u lie that us not my pm, he is the best pm in Dominica, that is not him, impossible.
Hey! I always say, leave it to God. The song writer wrote, “Somebody bigger than you and I.” Fools don’t believe that! Instead, they make themselves gods, and act as gods. But somebody lives upstairs and sees way down under the cellar.
Ashe spill de beans tell all, save your skin my friend, don’t go to prison by yourself.
kId on the block could see u are not very smart. Skerrit is digging his own pit. If u had a daughter who is
getting involved intimately with alleged criminals would u just nod ur head in approval? Would u tell people who is advising her to stay away from alleged criminals that they are going to fall in a pit?
I always know he like rolex
But I didnt know versace too
I know he doh like Zaeed
But now I know he like Lap Seng
Chorus
Twet ka koshais epir twet
Crooks know where to find more crooks
I didnt know you like fwashin
But I know you eating cat
I know bout the New York apartment
I know about offshore accounts
Twet ka koshais epir twet
Thirves know where to find thieves
Those negative hatred and jealous comments you Haters are posting on DNO against Skerrit remember while you ALL are pointing one finger at him five are pointing back at you. Who ever digeth the Pit SHALL fall in it. Today is his Tomorrow shall be ours.
@kid on the block, you really sound like a kid that is immature, and has nothing to do. What those haters or lovers say about Skerrit is not important; What is important is what FBI knows.
In that first piece I wrote, I stated there might be a certain Dominican on the FBI Radar DNO did not print it, but one thing Dominicans need to be aware of is sometimes a diplomatic passport does not stop deportation, and jail sentence when they venture out of the UN to commit crimes, political or otherwise.
Nobody is above the law in America, some years ago, the DEA caught a government minister from the Cayman islands red handed in a sting smuggling cocaine, and collecting money from DEA undercover police, he went to here, I suppose his diplomatic passport could not help him!
Oh please. If wrong is wrong don’t say it? I agree some statements are much too much but in Dominica it seems objectivity has gone out the window. If you ever dare criticize you are a hater?
@kid on the block, please open this website and tell me if you can make out those for persons at the front with a glass holding. Also, tell me is Skerrit is one, and where are the others today? http://www.demotix.com/news/8734015/corruption-and-bribery-scandal-surrounds-top-un-officials#media-8734520
People like you shall forever remain a bias warped fool! The man is being prosecuted, and here you are talking crap about hate! How stupid can one human be, I think a dog has more commonsense than you! America is not Dominica, he violated a law in America, and he is going to jail to pay for his crime!
Read the following idiot!
“Prosecutors say some of the bribe money was used to pay for Ashe’s family vacation and to construct a basketball court at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He opened two bank accounts to receive the funds and then underreported his income by more than $1.2 million, officials said.”
Whereas he underreported his income the IRS is involved here, shut up and stop making a fool of youself!
Kid, you really do sound like a kid, a petulant child. Don’t you realize the game is up??
KID do you make $2000 a month?
Mango is green and nice – But in a ripened state when they smell sweet and look Rosie; they’ll all come down with a little USA wind. So, let them fly their kite.
Why was Pm signing documents with the 3 men who were arrested in New York? Ng Lap Sen, Lorenzo and John Ashe.
@Jah rich, Go ask Lennox and Angelo that question they will be able to help you.
A signature is a crucial piece of evidence in a court of law. It means that the “signee” was aware of all and any transaction taking, or would take place. “It wasn’t me.”
Well well well…..Lapset, Rosemary, Ashpwev and Lorenanni!!!!!…..Bush Rum start making lafimay. Take that and drink it. It’s creole season.
Interesting photo.
http://www.demotix.com/news/8734015/corruption-and-bribery-scandal-surrounds-top-un-officials#media-8734520
File image: Chinese billionaire developer Mr Ng Lap Seng, (IN JAIL) Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit, Ambassadors Francis Lorenzo (IN JAIL) and John W. Ashe (IN JAIL), celebrate at a conference in Macau, China. Ng, Lorenzo and Ashe have been indicted for corruption.
Three of the four now in jail. Mr Skerrit needs to clear his name.
Thanks for the pictures, while the emphasis is on the Prime Minister, Dominica Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Vince Henderson is also in the picture rubbing shoulders with the men who were recently jailed. I love Vince, I hope he is not implicated in any alleged corruption like the Permanent Resident to the U. N for Antigua, Mr. John Ashe.
Why does he need to clear his name? Has he been implicated in any of these alleged wrong doings? I see many people in this photo quite a few from the Caribbean are they all guilty by association.
A cashless you are right, That exactly what the former P.M. of antigua said when he supported mr. ashe for the president job at the U.N. he also said it has not costed the people of antigua not one cent
I agree that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit must clear his name from this commess. I am calling on his Lordship Bishop Malzaire and our good Evangelical Pastor Peter R Augustine to kindly ask Mr Skerrit to tell us Dominicans that our beloved PM not in that RORO, and, I will not ask Pastor Rodney to do anything because he might get too emotional and CUSS, so, Pastor Rod hold your rod still you hear
Bless be the Lord no wonder we only get rain this time but if the corruption continue… GOD please forgive we do not seem to know what we doing… MONEY getting the better of us.
Here comes the maker
To crush the oppressor
And I bet you didn’t know
It was a mind over matter
Load gonna come tumblin’ down
Load gonna come tumblin’ down
Load gonna come tumblin’ down
Load gonna come
Copyright: Ziggy Marley – Tumblin’ Down
Distrust in high places is fueling many other associated bad behavios.. No wonder our youth are directionless and have no discipline. Our examples should start at the top.
DNO shame on your journalism, there is an article titled Corruption and bribery scandal surrounds top UN officials
25 August 2015 by Brittany Somerset our prime minister was with those people in macau just before Erika, and no media house reporting it shame on all u we have to rely on international press to know what is happening.
Don’t blame DNO brother. How about GIS, DBS, Kairi, Vibes, the Chronicle, the Sun. DNO reports this before any of them. You have to blame my friend Roosevelt really because he more and more thinks he does not have to explain anything to anyone, not even his cabinet and thinks Parliament is just a nuisance. And I had such hopes for that brother.
The infamous businessman Ng lap Seng better well known internationally as “Mr Wu”
The P.M’s “BOY” Its Alleged. some of us saw it coming. It was nice to see john ashe, lorenzo, and mr wu holding the hands of the P.M. while he cut the cake at macau 
Like i have said the upside down DLP government. So he tell us in dominca, he is rasing taxes on sugar and alcohol products because he cares about our health, wonderful. Then he goes to cut cake, and the cocktails “rum” is flowing for hours like the rivers during the . Ah i don’t want to be critical or a hater of the P.M. or the DLP. I love expensive cocktails parties 
The dominoes are falling one after the other. .More arrests are expected according to refuters news agency.
Ashe was arrested Tuesday and is being held, and his legal representation wasn’t clear. No one answered a phone call to the mission for Antigua; he is no longer listed in the U.N. directory. A message left with a representative for the General Assembly wasn’t immediately returned.
Well boy, you are going to taste America Jail…………..
Oh oh…..say it ain’t so. Is this smoke, or fire? I think it’s both. Round dem up!!! Stealing from the poor? Wonder what Robin Hood would have said. “HANG-EM.”
Aren’t these the dudes that our PM was meeting with in in Macau?
The question is, who is next? Your guess is as good as mine. What we do know is that, according to Rev. Peter R Augustine, Roosevelt Skerrit is the wisest and best Prime Minister Dominica has ever had! So wise that countries with disaster will have to seek his advise, because he is as wise as Solomon.
As the wisest and best, we know his name will not be called in this mess and no one in Dominica is worried or concerned
Peter R. Augustine can not take back his words either!!
DNO, I thank you for finally informing the nation, though you did not quite inform your readers. The article is missing the following information:
1. Mr. LG Lap Seng is a very good friend of Skerrit and Dominica
2. It is no secret that the day Erika destroyed Dominica, Prime Minister Skerrit was on his way from Macau where he told the nation that he attended a UN function. Here is DNO “my depression was lifted by the thought that the sentiments and agreements made at the Conference in Macau, China” full story herehttps://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/general/pm-skerrit-addresses-the-nation/
3. He sincerely forgot to tell us who attended the said meeting with him.
4. It is a fact that the following persons attended the above meeting: NG Lap Seng, John Ashe, Francis Lorenzo and Mr. Roosevelt Skerrit.
5. PM Skerrit was the only Prime Minister present
6. So far, we know the first three, that is: NG, John and Francisco have found a new address in US Jail
Thank you. I keep wondering why a media house like DNO is so fearfull of reporting fearlessly. All the DNI reporter has to do is click on the UN site and vois la Skerrit with Ashe ,Lorenzo and Lap Seng. In addition there is genuine court documents proving Skerrit involvement eith Lap Seng. Yet all of this a DNO is afraid to recognize the vitality.
After all we know for sure that every other media house in Dominica with the exception of Q95 is controlled by the labor party government. DNO is supposedly independent. But not only that DNO control the electronic media share and as such DNO should be fearless
Take dem America take dem
We are trending in shark infested waters…
Worse carcon, the sharks have come on land and are breathing our air.
Hearing names like Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng ,one can deductively think of trickle down corruption.Does our UN buddy know a thing or two about that? Everyone in the islands into SUVs country & town homes wanna go shopping in Miami everyone 3 months. swimming pool in their backyard even if we are all surrounded by water.DA more than sea. lol!Fancy vestments bbqsevery weekend, curved TVs add yours readers.
Take home message$$$$$ are required to live the life style jobs don’t sustain such life styles. you & I know that. so $ have to trickle down from somewhere.Our economidt standard or political, lawyers drug dealers prostitutes , shop keepers speak easy owners know the art of the underground economy.
Bria & Matt touched the topic this afternoon briefly.
More 2 come.
Referring to the US and big countries, when they are in high places they have privileges. At that time they are not watched nor suspected. They are sometimes approached and bribed to practice dishonesty. Some fall for it with promises of exorbitant sums of money to get rich and live lavishly.
Money, the almighty dollar, is tempting. This is the work of Satan, his influence, his blatant lies and dishonesty.
Intelligent people could be stupid. With all what they hear and read about, do they not realize that sooner or later they will be caught and their position and reputation will be reduced to naught, down the drain? Imagine they who had influence and prestige will be imprisoned. What good is it?
I would think when they scheme with others, they are not happy. There would be an uncertain degree within them of being caught.
Teach the youths not to envy anyone for who they have become and what they possess. Study, work for what they want by honest means.
At the same time, we must be compassionate and not laugh at what befalls others. Keep in mind Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to be “perfect and merciful.” We must constantly strive for these godly virtues.
The fallen ones have a wife and family. We must consider them and the situation they have found themselves in, some, through no fault of theirs. They are shocked, ashamed and embarrassed at their fallen family and/or friends. This could also cause insanity.
We should also consider that some can’t bear the embarrassment and commit suicide.
I have confident in God, as taught by my parents who themselves had a lot of confidence in Him. As there is a God above who knows and sees everything, in time we reap what we sow right on earth.
Learned from them in my childhood days: “There but for the grace of God go I.”
We speak our minds and comment but we must have empathy for such people who have become at par, if not less than the poorest person on earth.
And the US Attorney for Manhattan, speaking today at a press conference said “we’re looking at a lot of things and I wouldn’t be surprised if you see other people charged.” This is called the tip of the iceberg. Allegedly the Ambassador had two Rolex watches, spent fifty nine thousands US dollars on two business suits, drove a new BMW and recently spent thirty thousand US dollars to build a new basketball court at his house among other alleged excesses. Allegedly, Mr Ng Lap Seng has a Dominica connection. I hereby submit the movie “Waiting to Exhale” for viewing pleasure till the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan makes another announcement.
Woa! Stay tuned!
Our Ambassador at the United Nation once said that Hon Lennox Linton was jealous of him because he was rubbing shoulders with some big boys in New York. I hope one of the big boys he was referring to was not NG Lap Seng. Dominicans have heard of allegations concerning the friendliness of Mr. Lap Seng and the Prime Minister. Because of this report from DNO, popular talk show host Allen, who has been criticized for warning Dominicans about Lap Seng and the Government, must be feeling a sense of vindication.
Who’s next? let me check my files…..
Stop make under the table dealings!!!!
At least three of those arrested were present at the South-South Forum at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Macau on 25 August where Roosevelt Skerrit featured as a main speaker. The event was organized by David Ng (Lap Seng)’s Sun Kiang IP group, of which he is chairman. Also present was Dr. John Ashe of Antigua (ex UN diplomat & co-chairman of the same Sun Kian company ) , as well as Francis Lorenzo, the group’s President. All three have been indicted.
At the meeting in Macau our P.M. signed an agreement with mr. David Ng (Lap Seng) for the establishment of a Technology Transfer facility in Dominica.
I truly hope that our P.M. will be found to be in no way associated with any questionable dealings with these people because that would cause untold damage to Dominica, especially at a time when we need the support from international donors.
Omg ,you are hitting the nail..I am hoping that we are all dreaming,but its obvious that we are not. Lets just hope for the best..Dominica cant take any more..or we could b going down a path of destruction and poverty,but again whom the Lord loves he chastises.
Ashe head bow in the back and Lorenzo not seen in the photo was also there.
Ng Lap sen is a good friend of the pm. He is the one that arranges everything for him to enjoy on his trip to Macau. Why was the pm in Macau just before TS Erika signing documents. What was that about?
This troubling and if this continues we will suffer more disasters on Dominica. How sad
They are most definitely closing in on Skerrit, its just a matter of time. Ninety-nine days for the thief, one day for the watchman. The day of the watchman is at hand.
Papa met! Hangs head in shame. Isn’t that the same Ng Sen that someone on DNO keeps posting about and I am wondering what the heck?
When will Dominica begin to prosecute for corruption and bribery?
No Indira, we have that splendid invention called!”judicial review”, an instrument to postpone a hearing tor eternity or at least till either the protagonists are dead or the subject matter forgotten.. I call it “judicial injustice”.
Never because our judges DO NOT HAVE THE BOLS.
Really interesting revelations…..Dominica involvement with this Ng Lap Seng fella may also be under investigation.
Let us wait and see how the saga unfolds as I think this is just the beginning.
Well Antigua has a long history of corruption which includes bribery etc. Our new Kids on the political block have out done Antigua from Holsted to the new guy.
I was pondering on the best way to present my thoughts on the topic Our guys have defied law, constitution even Gravity. We can easily id the corruption re: Law and constitution. The Bobols fertilizer, Land transfers on land or lack there of. Garbage Bins.etc
Now you may be wondering about defying gravity that much studied constant 9.5.
They’ve done so by taking things that are constant at ground level to the next level.LMAO real loud.Guess U too.
If you read the indictment carefully you will find that the previous P.M. of Antigua is also implicated as receiving payments and favours from Ng through his ambassador John Ashe. I can’t wait to hear/read the media in Antigua.
Let the chips fall where they may.
There is one thing in life, since no one can foresee the future or foretell it, they do not know what lies ahead for them. No one can be confident that they will never find themselves in a situation. Those who lack compassion may themselves be, if not in the same position but another type which will cause them much anxiety, stress and hardship. If not them, it could be a member of their family or some other whom they know. We do not reject such people. This is when they need all the love, consideration and compassion of those whom they know.
In case some do not know, God is constantly testing us to see how we react to those who are in need of our friendship and also help, one way or the other. Those who claim to be Christians should always keep this in mind and practice this godliness.
This is why Our Lord told us, “Do not judge.” While some are judging, God knows their life is not straightened out. Consider what could await such people.
Oh shut up hypocrite
#charliepride
Now Ng Lap Seng in the kalaboos it seem like the Skerrit meetings with him may be in futility.
Is there a cure for corruption?
I am specifically requesting a response from people who defend corruption in Dominica. It is obvious that corruption exist
http://www.samoachamber.ws/2015/09/chamber-partners-with-un-ss-gate-signs-silk-road-chamber-of-commerce-mou/
greed!
Now this is justice for all . Up here once they catch you it makes no difference what position you held or hold the punishment is given if proven guilty. Just yesterday one of the former Governor Generals of Quebec was sent to jail for abuse of office and fraud. I hope we take note in Dominica – for this could never happen in our so called judiciary where only certain people are punished.