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Saturday, April 27, 2024

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) " A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death Thursday in the country's biggest ever financial fraud case, a shocking development in an intensifying anti-corruption drive in the southeast Asian nation. Truong My Lan, a high-profile businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022. The 67-year-old has been convicted for fraud amounting to $12.5 billion " nearly 3% of the country's 2022 GDP " and for illegally controlling a major bank and allowing loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion, state media outlets reported. Death sentences are not uncommon in Vietnam, but it is rare in financial crime cases and for someone this well known.

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Ideologically, I'm against the death penalty and I'm a prison abolitionist.

I think her ass that's should be seized and redistributed, and I think she should be forced to be a wage slave in some s*** hole country like the us until she dies.

This will do, though.

#1 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-27 07:12 PM | Reply

***assets, not ass that's****

#2 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-27 07:13 PM | Reply

Can you imagine how quickly she would have been bailed out in the United states?

The US government would have been cutting her a check quicker than they band tick tock.

#3 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-27 07:16 PM | Reply

She would be on Trump's VP List here.

Prolly at the top.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-27 08:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Marxist Joseph R. Brandon would do a signing ceremony on the check that the US Congress cut to any billionaire that stole 3 or 6 or 8% of the US GDP.

He would gift the pens to other billionaire job creators to let them know that he and the other radical socialists have their back when they decide to take their slice.

#5 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-28 02:50 AM | Reply

Crack is a helluva drug, ain't it?

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-28 09:06 PM | Reply

That's right, #6.

But you ask government has never rebelled out billionaires that have crashed the economy.

Not even every single time it has ever happened.

Idiot ----.

#7 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-28 09:43 PM | Reply

Bailed*, not rebelled.

#8 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-28 09:43 PM | Reply

Talk to text hates my guts.

Anyway.

That's right, #6.

The US government has never bailed out the billionaires that have crashed the economy.

Not even every single time it has ever happened.

Idiot ----.

#9 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-28 09:45 PM | Reply

@#9 ... Idiot ----. ...

I ask myself, should I try to have a conversations with an alias that seems to prefer this approach?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-28 09:50 PM | Reply

No, #10.

But you should have conversations with the one who calls the one who is absolutely correct, in spite of the naughty words, a crackhead.

Because your a ------- water headed ---- as well.

#11 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-28 10:07 PM | Reply

@#11 ... Because your a ------- water headed ---- as well. ...

And that comment substantiates the view your alias is trying to make...

How?

Stated differently, why should I pay one iota of attention to an alias that seems to do little than hurl insults?

Your alias' delivery diminishes [understatement] the content of that delivery.


Yer up.



#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-28 11:02 PM | Reply

Hilarious topic. They wouldn't have a billionaire to execute if they hadn't taken a massive pivot away from Communism and become Harley riding Capitalists.

#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-29 08:57 AM | Reply

Look at #13 seethe over the colonial project that got away.

#14 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-29 10:19 AM | Reply

Chin up, #13.

There are other, and will be other, abhorrent colonial projects that you can cheer on.

#15 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-29 10:20 AM | Reply

Uh oh, somebody is mad that Marx was wrong. Communism isn't inevitable, Communism always becomes single-party Capitalism.

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-29 02:15 PM | Reply

"Colonialism" lol. Definitely still funny that the Viets who came to America, went back to Vietnam with their American money, and now own huge swatches of the country. Industrious culture, natural capitalists. Even several of my model planes, of aircraft that bombed Vietnam, are made in Vietnam.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-29 02:18 PM | Reply

Even several of my model planes, of aircraft that bombed Vietnam, are made in Vietnam.

#17 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG A

This water head thinks that anytime stuff is made there's no socialism involved....

#18 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-29 03:11 PM | Reply

I mean,,,,, a guy bought a thing that was very likely produced in a state owned factory in Southeast Asia.

Obviously zero socialism involved in that transaction...

#19 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-29 03:22 PM | Reply

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