{"id":2538,"date":"2005-07-26T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:06:01","slug":"perhaps-he-was-just-dodging-atm-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/perhaps-he-was-just-dodging-atm-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps He Was Just Dodging ATM Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest in the UN Oil For Food scandal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/07\/24\/wun124.xml\" target=\"_new\">Oil-for-food chief &#8216;has overseas accounts&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nInvestigators in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal have discovered a network of overseas bank accounts operated by Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations programme, who is the subject of a criminal inquiry by New York prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from investigative agencies, including the UN&#8217;s Volcker inquiry, say that Mr Sevan has accounts in his native Cyprus, Turkey and Switzerland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, perhaps he was just avoiding punitive ATM fees and conversion rates when he travelled.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerlsimon.com\/mt-archives\/2005\/07\/oilforfood_a_re.php\" target=\"_new\">Roger L. Simon<\/a>, that other guy with a fedora.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest in the UN Oil For Food scandal: Oil-for-food chief &#8216;has overseas accounts&#8217;: Investigators in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal have discovered a network of overseas bank accounts operated by Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations programme, who is the subject of a criminal inquiry by New York prosecutors. Officials from investigative agencies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19494,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/19494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}