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Posted : 2021-04-18 20:02
Lee Sung-yoon, chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office / Korea Times file
Prosecutors have questioned the chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office over alleged abuse of power in connection with an illegal travel ban imposed against a scandal-ridden senior official two years ago, officials said Sunday.
Lee Sung-yoon was questioned at the Suwon District Prosecutors Office as a suspect on Saturday over allegations that he exercised undue influence in 2019 to bring an end to an investigation into the alleged illegal exit ban imposed on former vice justice minister Kim Hak-ui.
According to the investigation team, Lee was accompanied by his lawyer and was questioned for approximately nine hours. Saturday s probe was conducted following repeated refusals by Lee to comply with subpoenas.
stand his ground and get rid of this crap. the conservative saying hold your ground, rip it up, mr. president. the 12th of may, a long way off. up next, legal travel ban or unconstitutional muslim ban. today, the supreme court weighs in.
minds the spotlight. he s sort of used to it. what situation does it put him in? in a situation where he has to either say his boss was wrong or some kind of investigation that we haven t known about that involved surveillance of trump tower. there s been no evidence of that so far. i think president trump is running into the reality of being the chief executive where every word matters. he can t make a charge like that and expect it to go away or people to lose attention or stop pursuing evidence for it. we ve also seen that on the immigration ban, his words during the campaign calling it a muslim ban, continues to reverberate and prompt federal judges to block his initiative. this is a different role than the role of a business leader or even apartmental candidate. it turns out quotation marks may not have legal standing. larry sabado, blocked on the travel ban, blocked on whether he was wiretapped, blocked on
say they do not see a problem with this new ban. does their opinion matter now? what effect will that have? it will if they appeal back to the ninth circuit and have a different set of three. remember, one of the judges who was very hard on the government, the federal government was based in hawaii. that was the one talking about how can this be a muslim ban if you haven t incorporated every muslim majority country and now excluded at least one, being iraq, from the original seven. this is going to be a very, very strong issue to parse out. i think next time you will have a more prepared justice department lawyer who will have the backing of probably more of a national security explanation. more time to prepare, too. laura jarrett and laura coates, great to have you with us. thank you very much. very interesting. president trump this morning defending his claim that he was wiretapped by former president obama. the president now seems to be redefine what he meant by wiretap. in an