By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign. Thursday’s ruling against Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat
By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign. Thursday’s ruling against Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat
The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign. Thursday’s ruling against Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, follows the resignation of two presidents in just over a year, in departures linked to separate allegations of wrongdoing. The sheer scale of Lan’s misconduct has...
By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign. Thursday’s ruling against Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat
If anybody has any doubt about the extreme liberal bias of Politico, an article they published on Friday should resolve that matter. Their legal editor, James Romoser, attempted to portray the legal system as being too nice to Donald Trump. The diatribe was headlined: "How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System." He lies about his cases. He vilifies the judges overseeing them — and then vilifies their wives and daughters, too. As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal...
If anybody has any doubt about the extreme liberal bias of Politico, an article they published on Friday should resolve that matter. Their legal editor, James Romoser, attempted to portray the legal system as being too nice to Donald Trump. The diatribe was headlined: "How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System." He lies about his cases. He vilifies the judges overseeing them — and then vilifies their wives and daughters, too. As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal...
Under international law, states have the right to defend themselves. Zionists use this right to justify Israel’s siege of Gaza. But what they willingly ignore is that self-defense must be proportional. Just as you cannot kill someone for a minor assault, states are not permitted to kill as many people as they want in response to a terrorist attack. More
Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia.
Ebony Johnson could never have imagined that the day after Mother’s Day — her 39th birthday — she will also celebrate the life of twin daughters who died shortly after birth three weeks ago.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, presiding over Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, should impose a monitor for the ex-president's social media posts amid his gag order, legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said.Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, last week became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case. Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office,...
Something seems to be terribly wrong with our foster care system. Several children have died in past few years while they were supposed to be taken care of. And now comes a $750,000 lawsuit being settled by the state (“State to pay $750,000 in foster abuse case,” Star-Advertiser, April 16).
A judge earlier this month agreed to a prosecution request to drop a murder charge against a man who is charged in a 2021 shooting death.