As I continually mention, I’m from New Jersey. One thing New Jersey does well, besides gravity defying spiky hair, unnatural orange glow and taylor ham is corruption. Even the Garden State doesn’t deal with public officials like China. No instead of throwing them into ladies prisons (minimum security country club jails not actual ladies prisons) like we do in New Jersey or you know re-elect said official (because this isn’t Washington DC) China assigns the death penalty. Yeah that’s right, you do one small tiny little thing like take $1 million in bribes for favorable contract awards related to development of Beijing for the Olympics and you get sentenced to death….well a suspended death sentence, if that makes it any better.
A former Beijing vice mayor in charge of overseeing Olympic construction projects has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption.
The Intermediate People's Court in Hengshui, a city outside Beijing, delivered the sentence Saturday after finding Liu Zhihua guilty of taking bribes.
At the time of Liu’s bribe taking, he was in charge of urban development in Beijing overseeing the $40 billion the city spent on Olympics-related infrastructure. But then things got a little hairy. He apparently was pocketing $1 million for himself and then was setting up his mistress for life as well.
Liu faced 10 charges for allegedly accepting bribes totaling about $1 million and gifts in return for favors to property development companies while he was vice mayor
Liu was also convicted of helping his mistress, Wang Jianrui, profit from construction projects.
Liu of course is claiming this is some sort of set up. That a company that did not receive a contract from his office is upset and trying to bring him down.
Liu claimed in court that the case was an act of retaliation by a property developer who wanted to have Liu removed because of a dispute over a commercial and residential development across the street from several Olympic venues.
Unhappy over the outcome, the building's developer sought to punish Liu by reporting his extramarital affair and other alleged improper dealings to authorities.
This is so the plot of movie. Kind of like Broke Down Palace but hopefully not as frustrating. I mean who signs something like a confession written in a language you don’t understand, Kate Beckinsale? And then who decides that they’d rather rot in a third world country’s jail and let their moronic friend who signed said confession go free, Claire Danes? And if I’m giving away the ending, well consider yourself lucky that you didn’t sit through 2 hours of that crap!
Watch out Liu, because the popo are on your tail!
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