'Tariff hell' leaves industries in limbo – 'not a great environment to plan'
UPDATED 17.30 BST TO INCLUDE SECOND PAR Yesterday the tariff landscape changed yet again, with a ...
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By Alex Lennane
Former Martinair executive Maria (Meta) Ullings has been extradited to the US to face charges of price fixing.
She arrived in Atlanta last week and appeared yesterday in a Georgia district court.
In a move that has deeply saddened many in the air cargo industry, Ms Ullings was apprehended by the Italian authorities in Sicily in July. She was indicted in September 2010 for alleged involvement in air cargo price-fixing.
Ms Ullings, a Dutch national, contested extradition, but lost her case in the ...
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Charles
January 22, 2020 at 3:23 pmThe US DoJ appears to have a very similar approach to ‘justice’ as that exercised by state prosecutors in Japan and even Russia, ie. often virtually none whatsoever.
As we’ve witnessed with Carlos Ghosn and other cases, for these prosecutors it’s about crushing their targeted victims – which the state has decided it wants either as scapegoats or as genuine offenders – and very little (beyond cosmetic lip service) about conducting fair enquiries or securing evidence.
Be it a confession or a plea bargain, the methods by which these easy-wins are obtained boil down to the same thing; persistent and relentless bullying supported by relatively unlimited resources. The methods typically incorporate various forms of torture, be it physical and/or mental, to grind down both the innocent and the guilty without discrimination. It’s as though there is a third-world pariah state operating within the US government.
Regrettable, to say the least, for such a great country and a shameful stain on the character and human rights record of the so-called Land of the Free.