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the stain of the whole affair has remained when it should not have been there in the first place. The resultant findings primarily found fault with the managerial practices of the UN at the time and recommended a raft of procedural corrections that are now being implemented.
Where the UN in all of this is now is dormant. The US administration as principal detractor continues to condemn the UN falling back on the insinuations rather than the facts because in the Security Council and the Chamber it does not always comply with its demands. That unfortunately is a democratic process at work. The public perception it promotes is of a great monolith in New York that soaks up funds. What is not made evident and perhaps is the fault of the UN in not having as successful a public relations machinery as it needs, is the thousands upon thousands of programs and program successes that go on around the world in almost all developing countries that bring a change for the better to millions of lives.

Like with any large bureaucratic organization, the UN needs reform but it also need the resources and management and Directorship to make those reforms. In public life the Directors of a company can be held accountable for the failings of a public business, so too should it be with the UN. The directors in this case are the members of the Security Council and more so the senior members however that is an often overlooked convenience.
Until these senior directors of the UN stop condemning the organization for reasons of political expediency and start looking at their own participation and part in it more objectively then the UN will constantly be the whipping boy and its progress will constantly be stunted. Has it recovered from the scandal? That depends on who is looking. For those that want to see the political advantage in condemning it won't appreciate its work, those that know better, it has. The scandal was an aberration that has past and appropriately dealt with as a single issue as it should be.

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