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Julia Vivi Wang, (R) who is accused of having paid a bribe for diplomatic positions, attempts to shield herself as she exits the Manhattan U.S. District Courthouse in New York March 18, 2016. The broad United Nations corruption investigation that swept up a former president of the General Assembly expanded on Friday, as federal prosecutors charged a Chinese-born executive with paying at least $500,000 in bribes to buy diplomatic positions with the government of Antigua for her husband and another man. The bribe was “solicited and facilitated” by John W. Ashe, who served as General Assembly president for one year starting in September 2013, and Francis Lorenzo, a deputy permanent representative to the United Nations for the Dominican Republic, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Friday. Prosecutors have said that Mr. Ashe, who served as the permanent representative to the United Nations for Antigua, had participated in a scheme with Mr. Lorenzo and other defendants in which Mr. Ashe was paid more than $1.3 million in bribes. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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