"A U.N. Palestinian refugee agency is reeling from allegations of sexual misconduct and abuses of authority involving the agency chief and other senior management figures -- the latest controversy for the embattled agency that the U.S. withdrew funding from last year...
Reached for comment about the latest scandal a State Department official told Fox News: 'Our concerns about UNWRA go well beyond allegations about the conduct of individual UNWRA officials, although these are also of concern.'
'As we have said, our primary concern is that UNWRA's fundamental business model is broken. The current UNWRA model has simply and clearly proved unsustainable.'
Asked if UNRWA's chief Krahenbuhl should resign, a U.N. diplomat said 'it would help.'
Sen, James Risch, R-Idaho, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who had successfully pushed for the publication of a report that showed how UNRWA school textbooks funded by the U.S. were full of anti-Semitic incitement, told Fox News in an email: 'I already had concerns about UNRWA activities, including their use of biased textbooks.'
He continued: 'This latest news is very concerning and the UN should conduct a full investigation into these very serious allegations. I'm glad that US dollars are not currently being used to support this organization. It is inexcusable for a humanitarian organization to waste resources in this manner.'...
Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UN's own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that he was not surprised by the allegations.
'[They] do not surprise me in the slightest; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity,' he said..."