Conservatives wondered how seriously Attorney General Loretta Lynch would be taking her job when only a month after her 27 April 2015 investiture the DOJ announced the indictment of international soccer federation FIFA officials on various corruption charges.  Why start off her tenure by looking abroad for high-profile targets when there were plenty right here at home?

These doubts were allayed somewhat when the FBI – which works for Lynch – after mounting pressure from Fox News, finally got around to investigating possible violations of federal law by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton owing to unauthorized storage of potentially classified materials on her private server.  The DOJ website, however, has nothing to suggest that the investigation is even taking place, nor does the FBI’s.  Both have declined official comment so far.

While Americans are made to wait to find out Clinton’s fate, the attorney general seems to have gone back to prosecuting (alleged) foreign criminals, this time at the United Nations.  John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda and the 68th president of the U.N. General Assembly, was arrested on 6 October on conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five others.  Ashe allegedly accepted $1 million in bribes from Chinese real estate mogul Ng Lap Seng to facilitate lucrative investments.  The spokesman for U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon said that the secretary "was shocked and deeply troubled to learn this morning of allegations [that] go to the heart of the integrity of the United Nations."  Anyone who watched Prime Minister Netanyahu’s U.N. speech last week knows that “integrity of the U.N.” is an oxymoron.

If the name Ng Lap Seng seems familiar, it’s because this fellow, who was arrested two weeks before Ashe, was named in a 1998 Democratic Party financing scandal when he was accused of wiring more than $1 million from accounts in Macau and Hong Kong to bank accounts in Washington and Arkansas, then the home of former president Bill Clinton.  Ng denied any wrongdoing but here’s a picture worth more than a thousand words.

Ah, the good old days!  The Clinton campaign won’t be using this picture but that shouldn’t stop anyone else.  Donald?  Marco?  Jeb?  Bernie?  Joe?