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You can watch Jonathan Hunt, my favourite UN Correspondent’s report on Benan Sevan’s unfortunate aunt.

FOXnews - Illegal Payments? New questions for the man who ran the U.N. Oil-for-Food program

Jonathan Hunt went to Cypress to ask about big cash payments Mr Sevan said he got from an elderly aunt who mysteriously and unfortunately died just as the Oil For Food Investigation got underway.

Benan Sevan has consistently denied any wrong doing concerning payments he got from 1999 to 2003 from his aunt, 160,000 in total. He told the Paul Voelker he got it from his aunt. So Hunt goes to Cypruss and showed the report claiming this to officials from the central bank in Cyprus, which set off a series of red flags, including the fact that it’s illegal to remove that much money from Cypruss, unless it’s a really special reason. The bank where the aunt had her only known account said she never had that kind of money. Sevan’s bookkeeper said she probably kept her $1000/month pension payments under her mattress. Hunt points out it would take about 15 years to save up that kind of money if that’s where she’s getting it. The bookkeeper said “You’re forgetting about interest!” Hunt says “You can’t earn interest under a mattress” so the bookkeeper says “Oh part of it was in the bank” except her bank had no idea where it came from! And then the central bank in Cyprus called some sort of DA, and Cyprian police called Interpol.

Now, the question is: If this is all getting started just because little Jonathan Hunt went to Cypress, why the hell didn’t it happen during the investigation into Oil For Food? What, Paul Voelker never looked into the Aunt-Gave-Me-the-Money story? What a joke. The Central Bank guy called the authorities with the reporter and cameras in the room, so obviously they were eager to look into it, and this was the first anyone in Cypress heard about it.

So once again things are getting done only because FOXnews is doing all the work. That’s not their job!