Picco quietly left a few weeks later, however--about the time that a scandal flared up in the media over a corrupt U.N. procurement officer, Alexander Yakovlev.

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This all ties back to perception and the fact that perception of a corrupt games media is enough to make this sort of hoax letter matter at all, whether or not actual corruption exists or is particularly widespread.

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