Fujimori convicted of corruption

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

The former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, has been given a seven-and-a-half-year jail term for corruption.

The 70-year-old was convicted by Peru's Supreme Court of giving $15m (£9.3m) in state funds to his spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos.

Fujimori admitted making the payment, but said he later repaid the money.

The sentence is the third handed down against Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, since he returned from exile in late 2007 to face charges.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8160150.stm

[DebbieCDC]

1. How come Peru can convict a corrupt former president and we can't?

What's wrong with this picture?

[dipsydoodle]

2. When you wuz at school

did you ever get a report which said "must try harder" :)

[Warpy]

3. How long did they take to do it?

That's part of your answer. Consider also that the constant drip of information about just how bad the last gang was that has hit he media might easily reflect a lot of work behind the scenes to reconstruct what they did and eventually build a case.

I'd like to see them dragged into prison now, too, but that's not how the law works in this country or most others.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. K&R for criminal presidents facing justice! nt

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thank god. They've screwed around indulging him quite long enough, haven't they?

Peru's justice system was stretching this out so long it looked as if they were going do what Chile had done for Pinochet, and screw around to the point the mass murdering monster simply died mostly of old age.

This is one truly slippery, slimy, treacherous, murdering monster who can only benefit by the humility of time actually spent behind bars, just like his political prisoners, or the ones who survived, that is.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. So, how many people did he send to Iraq?

How many people did he spy on?
How many of his buddies benefitted from loosening regulation?

I mean, that's all it takes in Peru to send a president to jail? 15 mil in state funds? Senators do that everyday in the US with their eyes closed.

[Judi Lynn]

8. For some reason they didn't bother to try him for death squads atrocities.

There's a certain racist indifference to abuse of the vast majority of the people there. He was up to his eyebrows in human rights abuses.

[Festivito]

7. Because we don't believe in we the people any more.

We the Corporations for the love of money in accordance to our needs within the United States in order to have more perfect control establish corporate justice for but mostly over the people, provide the people with the opportunity to protect and defend us, provide for the people to promote the corporate welfare ...