{"id":1182,"date":"2005-11-15T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2005-11-15T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T03:59:53","slug":"un-reverses-oil-for-food-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"UN Reverses Oil-for-Food Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scandal-plagued United Nations continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4440804.stm\">trip over its own feet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The only United Nations official sacked over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal has been reinstated after a UN appeals panel ruled he had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Stephanides was fired in May for allegedly interfering in the competitive bidding process.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said he had divulged bidding information but did not suggest he had personally benefited.<\/p>\n<p>While accepting his punishment was too harsh, the UN still insists he violated staff rules, and he plans a new appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Susannah Price says the decision to reverse the dismissal of Mr Stephanides will obviously be embarrassing for the UN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously embarrassing?  You betcha.  When Stephanides was first canned, I blogged that it was a start.  I was wrong, and we&#8217;re all back to square one in a game that very well may go absolutely nowhere despite billions of dollars of wrong-doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scandal-plagued United Nations continues to trip over its own feet. The only United Nations official sacked over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal has been reinstated after a UN appeals panel ruled he had done nothing wrong. Joseph Stephanides was fired in May for allegedly interfering in the competitive bidding process. Investigators said he had divulged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}