“In the five years from 1997 to 2002, United Nations diplomats were cited for 150,000 parking tickets that went unpaid - more than eighty per day,” Klaas writes.įormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to bully them into paying, and in 1997 he accused the United Nations of “acting like the worst kind of deadbeats.” But Giuliani’s tough words had little effect. The loophole leads many diplomats to cheat the system, according to the new book “ Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us” (Scribner), by Brian Klaas, who uses the simple example of parking violations to illustrate how they abuse their power. In 1987, Afghan envoy Shah Mohammad Dost demanded a pedestrian holding a parking spot surrender it at once. There are around 100,000 foreign diplomats, including their dependents, currently living in the US - and some, like Dost, have broken local laws and faced zero consequences. Curry later recovered from her injuries, and Dost wasn’t even questioned about the assault - thanks to his diplomatic immunity. Margaret Curry, 42, was sent to the hospital in Flushing, Queens, after being hit by Dost’s ’78 Lincoln. But, in 1987, Afghan envoy Shah Mohammad Dost pulled over and demanded the pedestrian surrender the parking spot immediately, insisting that being a diplomat gave him the right to take it.Īnd when she refused, he drove into her and took the spot anyway. If you’re like most people, you keep driving. You’re looking for a parking spot in Queens and notice a pedestrian guarding an available space, waiting for a car that has not yet arrived. Israeli diplomat in China hospitalized in ‘prison conditions’ for COVIDĬOP27 countries strike deal to create climate fund for at-risk nations Ex-Russian diplomat charged alongside ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal is no ‘traitor’: lawyerĮx-US diplomat’s daughter convicted of friend’s murder
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