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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 06: Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at a news conference where it was announced that a former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes among other charges on October 6, 2015 in New York City. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five other people. Those include Francis Lorenzo, a deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 06:  Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at a news conference where it was announced that a former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes among other charges
on October 6, 2015 in New York City. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five other people. Those include Francis Lorenzo, a deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)