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Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com)
A judge in Vancouver, British Columbia, has set a $7.5 million U.S. bail for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested last week on suspicion of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. "The United States had asked the Vancouver court to deny bail for Meng, whose father is a billionaire and a founder of Huawei, calling her a flight risk," reports CNBC. From the report: Canada has been expected to extradite Meng to the United States over charges that the company improperly took payments from Iran in violation of sanctions against the country. Meng's next moves will be closely watched, but it is likely with her corporate and family connections that she will be able to make bail. The $10 million CAD ($7.5 million USD) includes $7 million CAD ($5.2 million USD) cash and $3 million CAD ($2.2 million USD) more from five or more guarantors, presented by Meng and her attorney's as sureties that she would remain in the country. As conditions of the bail agreement, Meng must surrender her passports, wear a GPS tracking device and be accompanied by security detail whenever she leaves her residence.
And now what if you are an American (or Canadian) national in China? No doubt China will retaliate. There are a lot of American businessmen who operate in China. They already occasionally are subject to arbitrary action on the part of the Chinese government. Would this not give China more excuses to use them as political tools?
The fact that this happened right as Trump was smoothing things out with Xi can only be explained by a willful desire by DoJ staffers to make it blow up in Trump's face. It looks like aside from John Bolton, no one in the cabinet even knew that the DoJ was planning a move that amounts to making foreign policy.
Make no mistake. This move by the DoJ during the trade negotiations was no less aggressive and "making foreign policy" than if the DoD decided to move an entire carrier battle group off the shore of one of China's disputed islands and fly half its aircraft in a very aggressive, simulated bombing run of the PLA forces stationed there.
It's Canada. They're a civilised country, so bail bondsmen are illegal.
Bet she's glad to be oot, eh?
Canadian expat here.
Dear Americans, we love you. But please, once and for all, Canadians do not say "oot." It's more like "aout" - soft 'a' followed by a rising 'o' to 'u' vowel transition, ending in a 't' consonant. Perhaps a linguist could explain it better. But it's not "oot."
Thank you.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Sanctions are actions which are taken instead of just going to war with a country
No, sanctions are taken with allies, not unilaterally. If your allies didn't agree to enforce them, you've done it wrong.
...Bombing the shit out of Iran, or sitting back and just watching them gas their own population...
That was Iraq. The US did bomb the shit out of it, and now its a hell hole.
If you don't even know which country you're talking about, I suppose there's no point in explaining how the US has spent the last 70 years or so getting it wrong in Iran every single time.
The United States practices torture. As a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, Canada can tell the department of justice to GFY on any extraditions. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
China is never a good actor. Hacking, theft, deception, lies, and retaliation against innocents that can't defend themselves if you speak up.
The Chinese government is the largest terrorist and criminal racketeering organization the world has ever known.
You can replace "China" in those two sentences with "the United States", and they would be just as true.
The Unicode standard is over 20 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
The worst industrial disaster in history is the Bhopal disaster caused by Union Carbide, now a fully-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Around 4,000 people died instantly, and ~ 500,000 people were injured. This is higher casualty than all the “chemical warfare” in the Middle East combined. After 5 years of litigation, Union Carbide paid $470 million to settle the case. UCC Chairman Warren Anderson was flown out of India immediately, and none of the UCC American owners and corporate officers have ever spent a day in jail.
The worst environmental disaster in history is the Exxon Valdez oil spill. 35,000 tons of oil was released close to the coastal habitat of salmon, otters, seals, and seabirds, covering 1,300 miles of coastline and 11,000 square miles of ocean. 22 orcas, 3,000 sea otters, a quarter million sea birds were wiped out. After 20 years of litigation, Exxon paid ~ $500 million in punitive damages. The boat captain got community service. None of the Exxon executives has ever spent a day in jail.
The worst financial disaster since the Great Depression is the Financial crisis of 2007–2008. Triggered by the subprime mortgage collapse in the US, DJI dropped from a high of ~ 14,000 to a trough of 6,600. The financial crisis spreat from the US to the rest of the world, wiped out an estimated $2.8 trillion from financial institutions, of which, about $1 trillion came from the US banks, and the rest from Europe and Asia. Most countries in the world have still not recovered to this day, but Wall Street was awarded $700 billion bailout immediately. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 None of the Wall Street bankers has ever seen a day in jail.
Bail-bondsmen are sketchy people, but in what way is it better to not have the option to pay a fee to have someone else front the money? If your bond is $1000 and all you can scrape up is $100, then is it better to stay in jail or pay $100 and get out and maybe keep your job, your house, etc. Either way, you're screwed. But why is having a choice in how you are screwed worse than no choice?
Because it's become standard for bail to be exorbitantly high as a result of bondsman. People who can't scrounge together $350 to pay their late parking fees get held on bails of $3000 because of the logic you outlined above.