March 15, 2021
SOURCE: CMC – Former Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown, who is facing a string of corruption charges, has recruited a Barbadian ex-Attorney-General to his legal team.
Brown, 75, said Sir Elliott Mottley, who was Bermuda’s Attorney-General between 1995 and 1998, would help represent him following his January appearance by video link from Florida in Magistrates’ Court.
Sir Elliott, the father of Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley, was appointed in 1999 to the Belize Court of Appeal and was president of the court from 2004 to 2010.
Sir Elliott, who retired from the bench last year, sat on the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands from 2005 to 2015.
California Man Sentenced for Illegally Exporting Cesium Atomic Clocks to Hong Kong
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Cesium atomic clocks are used in global positioning system solutions, network timing protocols, encryption programs and national defense and space applications
BOSTON – A California man was sentenced on Wednesday, March 3, 2020 in federal court in Boston for illegally exporting cesium atomic clocks to Hong Kong.
Alex Yun Cheong Yue, 69, of South El Monte, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to time-served (one day) and three years of supervised release, a year of which must be served in home confinement. Yue is also prohibited from engaging in import or export transactions during the period of supervised release. In August 2020, Yue pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit export violations, two counts of unlawful exports and attempted exports of U.S. goods to Hong Kong and one count of smuggling.
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Mar 2, 2021
Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn was smuggled out of Japan in a corporate escape plot worthy of Hollywood. Fifteen months later, the American man accused of orchestrating his clandestine exit arrived back in the country with his son to face charges.
Japanese authorities took custody of Michael Taylor and his son, Peter, in Massachusetts, after the U.S. authorized their extradition for concealing Ghosn inside a large black box as he fled criminal charges in December 2019. After a 14 hour flight from Boston, they landed at Narita airport Tuesday afternoon, Kyodo News reported.
A role reversal months in the making was finally complete. The Taylors face a possible three-year sentence in prison. Meanwhile, Ghosn is a free man in Lebanon.
Escape artists accused of freeing Carlos Ghosn can t evade reckoning in Japan japantimes.co.jp - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from japantimes.co.jp Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.