The Washington Post reports:
"Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee was indicted last Thursday for tax evasion and breach of trust. He resigned in disgrace Tuesday, after apologizing to South Koreans for causing "much grief."
"His wife is also resigning as head of a Samsung art gallery and cultural foundation. And his son -- long regarded as heir-apparent to the Samsung throne -- was pushed out of his senior management position and will be sent into exile as a manager in a yet-to-be-named emerging market.
"But don't count the Lee family out just yet.
"A peculiar tick of the South Korean legal system is that judges here -- not wanting to upset the economic apple cart -- rarely sentence corporate titans to long prison terms and seldom strip them of their empires." (Washington Post)
That's no surprise: many politicians and bureaucrats here in the U.S. tend to go easy on big, white-collar criminals.
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