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Former South Korean President Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Accepting $5.4 Million In Bribes From Samsung (npr.org)
South Korea's former president, Lee Myung-bak, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for bribery and embezzlement. He will also have to pay $11.5 million in fines. NPR reports: Lee is the second South Korean leader convicted this year of charges of corruption and the fourth former president to be arrested for corruption since the 1990s. Prior to entering politics, Lee had been an executive at Hyundai and campaigned on a promise to help South Korea's economy grow. Lee served as president of South Korea from 2008 until 2013. A court ruled Friday that before and during his presidency Lee accepted $5.4 million in bribes from Samsung, South Korea's largest conglomerate.
In exchange, Lee had granted a presidential pardon to Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman, who had been convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. The conviction had forced Lee Kun-hee to resign from Samsung in 2008; he returned to work at the company shortly after receiving the presidential pardon. The court also found that former president Lee disguised his ownership of a lucrative auto-parts maker under the names of his relatives and embezzled 24 billion Korean won from the company, according to The New York Times. Samsung later offered to pay legal fees for a court case involving the auto-parts company. Lee, who did not appear in court on Friday, denied the charges. "During the hearings, he shifted the blame to his aides, accusing them of committing the crimes for their own profit and conspiring against him," Judge Chung Kae-seon said on Friday, according to The Times.
In exchange, Lee had granted a presidential pardon to Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman, who had been convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. The conviction had forced Lee Kun-hee to resign from Samsung in 2008; he returned to work at the company shortly after receiving the presidential pardon. The court also found that former president Lee disguised his ownership of a lucrative auto-parts maker under the names of his relatives and embezzled 24 billion Korean won from the company, according to The New York Times. Samsung later offered to pay legal fees for a court case involving the auto-parts company. Lee, who did not appear in court on Friday, denied the charges. "During the hearings, he shifted the blame to his aides, accusing them of committing the crimes for their own profit and conspiring against him," Judge Chung Kae-seon said on Friday, according to The Times.
I wish they would hold the same candle to TRUMP. He has accept many billion of dollars direct from KGB (Kremlin and Putin's secret organization) - we MUST investigate TRUMP and find these fatal flaws to impeach.
Who. Is. With. Me.
Trump next. What goes around, comes around.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
This guy was clearly an amateur. He should have looked to western politicians if he wants to see how to legally receive large bribes from corporations. All he need do is call them campaign donations and everything becomes perfectly acceptable and aboveboard.
It is good to see corruption in politics being punished for once. In the US you can hold a Senate hearing for Facebook where 46 of the 55 committee members have been paid off by Facebook in advance and nobody even bats an eyelid.
I can certainly understand that our political leaders shouldn't take bribes. Obviously that's bad.
But even more obviously, I can understand a human being having a great deal of trouble turning down millions of bribery dollars for favours that don't kill anybody.
You'll never get, even honest people to stop taking casual bribes. it's millions of dollars vs a rubber stamp. Everyone has their price.
I'm happy with a small jail term (I think 15 years is 14 years too many) and forfeiting the money with interest.
But what of Samsung? Shouldn't we be making it detrimental to offer bribes in the first place? I'd be happy with samsung being straight-up denied for any government application/request of any kind for one year per million dollars of bribery, plus a payment of double the bribe amount to local taxes.
In this case, with 5 million dollars in bribery, that would mean taxing samsung 10 million dollars and denying every government request (building application, tax exemption, valuation assessment) for the next 5 years.
I call it my sit-down-and-shut-up-for-a-while punishment.
I'm sure I'll peak back once in a while, but this site has become worthless. I used to come here because I could read things here sometimes a year before it hit the mainstream media ... but between the slow-to-be-released stories, the duplicate posts, and the apparent move towards anti-America stories - it's time to remove Slashdot from my "Favorites". This isn't posted to inflame. Just telling it how it is. Editors need to take note. From talking to friends, I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. As another voice gets modded down ... the site will continue to lose it's appeal. I'm not a troll. I'm a dissatisfied customer.
Nope, Lee Myung-bak belongs to the other side.
This is just another Brexit type situation where the power brokers behind the curtain are being replaced while you're distracted by Trumpism. The world is changing, the old power brokers are on their last legs. People like Soros, RBG and the rest are fighting a battle they can't win with the actuarial tables. You're hearing the screeching as they get replaced and new blood takes over. Not that crazy leftists won't continue to try to stab people like Bolsonaro, but your opposition only feeds us.
For all that talk about being on the "wrong side of history" how does it feel to have seen the pendulum change directions? Right now, you're frantically hoping for some desperate way to stall it and you've found that those "beach friends" didn't cut it, there were more holes in that story than a 30 year old Swiss cheese.
But you don't have a choice. The world is moving the other way now and it's only gaining momentum the more you push against it. I know, this is some random AC and you don't believe a word I've said, but it's okay. Just watch. Reality will catch up to you soon.
We know your playbook. We know how to beat it. Watch in horror as your own words get parroted back to you in mockery. Watch as your team snatches defeat from the jaws of victory over and over. We've already turned the key players and we're using your clowns to entertain you with some puppet theater.
Be sure to thank Avenatti for that show. He helped secure Kavanaugh's appointment and most of you don't even realize it. You lose. Even Slashdot's servers are acting like they're in on the joke You know what captcha they gave me?
"Prophecy"
From my understanding, every S. Korean leader has either been exiled, killed or placed in prison for corruption since 1950. Either their democracy is working really well, where the courts actually act on corruption, or there's a clear legitimacy problem where despite elections corrupt leaders are almost always elected.
He's an incompetent rich faggot made famous by convincing Conservatives he's one of them despite this and playing to their latent homosexual nazi fantasies of mattering again, (never will, poor dumb coal-fired bastards) yet sadly hangs for treason anyway, because he's so damn incompetent and probably the dumbest traitor in the history of New Jersey faggots manipulated by foreign dictators.
He would get six months, downgraded to 6 days for good behavior
it has to be the _right_ 60%.... A Montanan voter has 46 times more political power than a California one, even though they get a big chunk of change from the taxes paid by that CA voter...
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Good point. Now Trump put an unrepentant rapist on the supreme court. I'm sure that's going to help with 60% of red state women who believe the victim. And surely you know that not everyone in a red state is beer swilling trailer trash.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Reasonable people hold reasonable doubts, in turn expect evidence. That means they expect proof, and those "red state women" aren't showing up in droves for the democrats, in fact it's actually backfired. The whole "believe women" sham makes them look at their own husbands and sons and go...what the fuck are the democrats doing?! That could be MY husband or son.
Democrats overplayed their hand, so much so that they're already panicking and telling pundits to not harp on this "believe women" stuff. Seems like their internal polling showed that it turned voters against them, their ideas, and galvanized support for Kavenaugh.
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So what penalties are Samsung facing?
DEAL WITH IT INCEL REPUBLICAN FAGGOTS... nothing you can do about it either way now, lol deplorable inbreds and their rapist heroes don't matter.
There is no doubt in my mind that Trump's rapist judge is an angry drunk.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The question now is does he still drink?
There is no doubt in my mind that Trump's rapist judge is an angry drunk.
Yeah well that happens when you think that hearsay is proof. Want to "listen and believe" by all means, to anyone who believes in the rule of law, standards of evidence, and so on? You just look unhinged and reminds everyone the dangers of the witch hunts of yore.
That simply makes you far more dangerous, because you don't care about evidence. Only what someone dangles in front of you for proof. Bet you would have loved the witch trials too, if she floats she's a witch. If she sinks, god's with her and will forgive us. Maybe next, you'll engage in the recitation of orthodoxy to prove that they're a pure soul.
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I am entitled to my opinion. My opinion is that Kavanaugh is an angry abusive drunk, no question in my mind whatsoever. After all, the angry abusive part is a matter of public record. The drunk part is credibly reported to my satisfaction. I think there is a better than even chance that he is also a rapist, but that is just a suspicion. Likewise, it is probable that he has a gambling problem, and that he receives financial support from secret donors. And I suspect that you are an incel. You are certainly an apologist for an angry drunk who lacks the temperament to sit on the bench, supreme court of any other.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The question is did he lie under oath, and is he facing imminent impeachment in 6 weeks?
So you entire opinion is based on things that nobody can prove. Can provide no evidence for, can show no dates of, not a single police report of. A fine upstanding example of a person who's part of a mob and let's their emotions rule instead of their intelligence and reason.
And I suspect that you are an incel. You are certainly an apologist for an angry drunk who lacks the temperament to sit on the bench, supreme court of any other.
And there's the progressive/democrat garbage right on queueueueuueeue. When losing, engage in personal attacks, attacks against reputation, slander and with a hope and prayer it will stick. Hate to tell you this, but this stuff is burned out. I sure hope you enjoy the future you're now creating though.
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By the way, did you notice how Kavanaugh's face is crooked? I mean, it actually is. Look at a photo directly from the front, his eyes and the whole top of his head are five degrees rotated to his left. Just creepy.
I mean, if he wasn't an angry abusive wildly partisan drunk with a closet full of skeletons I would just overlook that. But he is all of that, so now that I shared this, you won't be able to unsee it. Check it out, it's true.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
So you entire opinion is based on things that nobody can prove.
You're full of crap. Major parts of it are a matter of public record. The rest requires connecting some big fat dots. I suppose you think that the investigation of Kavanaugh will just stop now that Trump's whitewash is done. News for you.
Now you need your daily boof. Just go ahead, I won't think badly of you. Oh sorry, that time I lied.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Do you even know why your betters were crying enough to cause mudslides of late? Because Daddy's finally home and California can no longer fuck over the rest of the country by writing $6.2m hovels off from taxes.
So, no, Brokeback Buttfucker in Montana isn't at all being subsidized by fluffers like you. It's been rather the other way around, entirely.
He would have taken the revolving door to become CEO of a company with a ridiculous salary and golden parachute.
Heck, we're still waiting for the bankers behind the financial crisis to be punished. Any day now right?
You're full of crap. Major parts of it are a matter of public record. The rest requires connecting some big fat dots
Funny how those "major parts of it are public record" don't show any sign of actual wrong doing isn't it.
Now you need your daily boof. Just go ahead, I won't think badly of you. Oh sorry, that time I lied.
Proving again that the left can't meme. Christ, why is all the crap you try so pathetic.
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Hey did you notice how his accusers looked like they'd spent years hanging out in the sun? Know what that's from? Decades of substance abuse, pill popping tied with drinking alcohol.
I mean that just looks great. It also just looks great, with all those paid protesters accosting politicians in elevators, and then people finding out that they're all paid by the same organization. The left has no shortage of useful idiots.
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I didn't notice that, but I did notice that Kavanaugh has an unusual number of blemishes on the right side of his crooked face, to the extent that he always tries to show his left profile. Like, something ugly in there wants out. See what I mean? This also shows how his mouth is twisted one way and his eyes are twisted the other.
I mean, if this was just anybody I wouldn't notice. But this is a deeply evil man. With a twisted face. Much like you I expect.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Samsung always take care of their customers. They will contraband a Samsung Galaxy Note behind bars. By igniting it, he will be able to break the prison wall and escape to freedom.
Yeah, those "blemishes" are from this thing called puberty. But you're calling someone a "deeply evil man" for facial features...yep, you really are engaging in a witch hunt.
How pitifully disgusting you are. Your entire basis of belief is based on superficial things, and not the content of character. Which shouldn't be a surprise considering how hard progressives love identity politics. Those pro-segregation stances you're holding are sure good too.
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Just kiss already, jesus christ
those "blemishes" are from this thing called puberty.
It looks worse than that, like a disease. And you see how twisted his face is, right? Like a car ran over it or something. Mouth twisted one way, eyes twisted the other.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
No. You're full of crap. You can believe whatever you want to believe, and delude yourself into thinking there's evidence to support it. Just go ahead. I will think badly of you.
Reasonable people hold reasonable doubts, in turn expect evidence.
You are mixing up the criminal accusations with the unsuitability accusations.
Kavanaugh isn't suitable to be a judge and even the crooks don't try to deny that.
Luckily for them they can contest the accusations that Kavanaugh might be a criminal where they only have to raise reasonable doubt and people who aren't paying attention will forget that Kavanaughts strongest argument for his position is "I like beer" while refusing to answer how much he drinks and instead started to shout nonsense.
After all, American politicians are expected to accept bribes and there are lobbyism structures in place to make the process work smoothly. So he is a victim of his political system.
Yes, I agree that the democrats are idiots and republicans are even bigger idiots.
Both sides in the media and public tend to be treating this as a criminal investigation. It was an interview process for Kavanaugh, and he's not entitled to the job, and nothing was guaranteed, no matter how many years you've served and what your track record is.
The "worst" for the republicans is the possibility of Kavanaugh not getting to be a supreme court judge and maintaining his current role. This isn't a criminal investigation. There's no "guilty". There's no sentencing as the Fox-News knuckleheads would claim. The guy's not going to get locked up no matter what the outcome would be, unless there's a separate criminal investigation afterwards. What we've seen so far has been a vetting process for the job. You know what, there are dozens of other qualified judges on Trump's list that could have been admitted. This isn't the same scenario as the former South Korean president.
Kavanaugh's a favorite because of his view that the president should not be charged/impeached/ indicted if the Muller investigations result turn out to be true, and they're clearly rushing to get this done before the mid-terms, and the Democrats are doing what they can to delay this. The way the Democrats handled this by delaying the revelation of the assaults have just been poorly handled too.
Let's limit the scope of the FBI investigation into the allegations, to limit what's reported, in time used to report, only allowing senators to read the document in 1-hr increments, not even interviewing the accuser and accused in the FBI investigations.
If the Supreme Court position were not a lifetime nomination, it might anger both sides a little less.
If this was a discussion on whether he should be locked up, then there woudn't be enough evidence yet (not "no evidence") - but the investigation was limited. This being a job vetting process is judging the guy based on his character, views and behavior. Everybody know that FBI investigation was just for show.
Some guy on another thread mentioned whether an employer has the right to care or know what you do outside of work hours. I agree that they shouldn't care, but if it's impacting the employee's performance and decision making, then it should be something of concern. USA political experts here can maybe clarify, but the difference here is that there's probably no mechanism for him to get "fired".
The guy lied under oath multiple times and that still didn't matter for the republicans. You guys have a president that was surrounding in controversy during his campaign and the republicans still supported him (although not initially). Now Fox news is worshiping and promoting him as much as ESPN worships and promotes Lebron James.
"Witch Hunt".
Stay off the Fox Kool-Aid, kid. Just because you're on a "News for Nerds" site, doesn't mean it automatically grants you critical thinking skills.
I am entitled to my opinion. My opinion is that Kavanaugh is an angry abusive drunk, no question in my mind whatsoever.
This is the problem. They have gotten you to make a determination based on "how you feel", rather than "what you know". They tell you a story that you can connect to personal events in your own life, and whammo, it must be "true"!
Dangerous. This allows anyone willing to provide false witness the ability to sell any situation they want, and change anything they want in their favor. Facts matter for a reason.
He said/she said arguments are among the most difficult things we have to deal with. Both sides might be a little right, a little wrong, or it may be way lopsided, but when there isn't any factual evidence - how the hell do you judge? "The most convincing"? Liars *love* that. If you are willing to drop requirements for substantial evidence because someone is simply "more convincing", you're launching yourself down the slippery slope on a sled covered in spikes.
And there's the progressive/democrat garbage right on queueueueuueeue.
The word you're looking for there is "cueueueueuueeue".
There is no doubt in my mind
There's no room for doubt in such a tiny mind.
I didn't notice that, but I did notice
"I know you are, but what am I!"
Just give it up, dude.
> Tell it to your rapist friends.
Sorry, we're not friends with Weinstein, Clinton, Ellison, Polanski, or the NXIUM cultists.
I hope you enjoy losing, you're going to do a lot of it.
How dare he be mad about being falsely accused of groping and running rape trains and other nonsense! How dare he be upset that his wife and daughters received death threats! How dare he be mad that the media would print allegations where they were forced to admit that they were not able to corroborate a singled damned thing in them.
The best "evidence" you have is that she allegedly told other people about this while preparing to make the attack. He's been shortlisted since 2012. The door was from 2008. The Safeway she plugged repeatedly in her testimony was built in 1986, not 1982. She was working with an ex-FBI lawyer when preparing this and her allegations kept changing to become more specific every time she knew more about what alibis Brett had. Funny how that works out! It's a pity that none of the facts actually align and her changing story only made us more suspicious.
This never happened. She deserves to be charged with perjury. Even her lawyer has a lawyer now.
Get used to losing.
Yeah, those "blemishes" are from this thing called puberty.
Yeah, right, never saw zits like that. They look more like pre-cancerous things. And just on one side of his face. And his whole face is bent, mouth twisted one way and eyes twisted the other. I mean, normally you'd just quickly forget such things, but this is your angry, lying, abusive, drunken, partisan, gambling addict judge here.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
right here.
There's also numerous emoluments clause violations that are so blatant that the question isn't "Is he guilty" it's "have be abandoned the rule of law". You can google them, it's not hard.
As for Trump himself, that's coming. We're taking down the most powerful man on earth. One who gave billions of dollars to the 1% who would like very much for that gravy train to continue. You can't just throw together a case overnight. He'll ignore the impeachment and the current SCOTUS will let it slide.
Go read up on Nixon. It took a while to bring the pain.
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Good point. Now Trump put an unrepentant rapist on the supreme court.
Trump put a man on the supreme court who was and still is accused of rape, before the accusations went to a court, and before the were refuted.
Obviously you wouldn't want a rapist in that position. I also wouldn't want one in that position who hasn't been found at least "more likely to be innocent".
Yeah, right, never saw zits like that. They look more like pre-cancerous things. And just on one side of his face. And his whole face is bent, mouth twisted one way and eyes twisted the other. I mean, normally you'd just quickly forget such things, but this is your angry, lying, abusive, drunken, partisan, gambling addict judge here.
Except they're not zits. They're a type of pockmark, you know something that was very common on people prior to say 1990. Maybe you should go look at some other pictures instead of the ones presented in media articles? Give you a hint, as to why publications use pictures like that. It's to make you think exactly as you have, react exactly like you have.
But if we're going to go with unbridled allegations, I'm sure you can explain your wife beating and child rapes. ...Right?
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Except they're not zits. They're a type of pockmark
Pockmarks if you like, pockmarks that look like pre-cancer. And on only one side of his face, the side he always tries to turn away from the camera. And then his whole skull seems to be bent, so his mouth is twisted one way and his eyes are twisted the other. Just a very creepy face if you happen to look at it.
I guess, Kavanaugh's mind is also twisted and has per-cancerous pockmarks. Your guy.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.