NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Former U.N. General Assembly President John Ashe was arrested Tuesday and charged in a bribery scheme in which he is accused of accepting more than $1 million in exchange for lucrative government investment contracts.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting federal documents unsealed Tuesday, reports Ashe, a former ambassador to the United Nations for Antigua and Barbuda and head of the UN's 68th General Assembly in 2013, was charged with two counts of tax fraud in connection to the scheme.