Francis Lorenzo, suspended DR Ambassador to the DR, to plead Guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a New York Court tomorrow

In a REUTERS Report written by Nate Raymond in New York; and Edited by Tom Brown and Dan Grebler, Reuters reported today 14th March 2016, that suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former U.N. General Assembly president is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, according to a court filing.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/suspended-united-nations-diplomat-will-plead-guilty-in-bribery-case/#.VugfD1dOh_k.mailto
 
Francis Lorenzo, 48, is scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court for a plea hearing, according to a docket entry on Monday. A lawyer for Lorenzo confirmed he would plead guilty at the hearing to charges including conspiracy to commit bribery.
 
“Ambassador Lorenzo is remorseful and has chosen to accept full responsibility for his participation in his criminal conduct with his co-defendants,” said Brian Bieber, Lorenzo’s lawyer.
 
Lorenzo is one of six individuals charged in October in connection with a scheme to pay more than $1.3 million in bribes to John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua & Barbuda and who served as General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014.
 
Prosecutors said those bribes included more than $500,000 that Ng Lap Seng, a billionaire real estate developer in Macau, paid through intermediaries to Ashe to seek U.N. support of a U.N.-sponsored conference centre in Macau.
 
Authorities said the intermediaries included Lorenzo, who prosecutors said also received bribes from Ng, and Jeff Yin, Ng’s assistant.
 
Ashe also received more than $800,000 from Chinese businessmen to support their interests within the United Nations and Antigua, prosecutors said.