The Associated Press this morning has reported that:
A court clerk says a former Beijing vice mayor in charge of overseeing Olympic construction projects has been given a death sentence for corruption.The Intermediate People's Court in Hengshui, a city outside Beijing, ordered the death sentence Saturday after finding Liu Zhihua guilty of taking bribes.But a court clerk says the sentence was "suspended" for two years.The reprieve means if Liu shows good behavior his sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am not all for making corruption over here a capital offense, but it really does beg the question regarding those so-called public servants who set the current economic crisis in motion, prevented anything from stopping it over the years and are now using it to lionize themselves, push pork and hammer John McCain, the one person on record in this mess to have actually tried to solve the problems while they...
By Charles M Cooper · October 20 2008
small business, congress, china, corruption
