Diane Lee’s fraud conviction quashed ... surprise, surprise

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The Taiwan High Court yesterday quashed a two-year sentence handed down to former Chinese Nationalist Party u[/u] legislator Diane Lee (李慶安) by a lower court and acquitted her of fraud over a dual-nationality controversy.

Really?

At the time, Lee claimed she mistakenly believed her US citizenship would automatically become invalid when she took up a public position.

She really did? Did she think that the US will follow every citizen’s political career in an other country … than cancel citizenship. Come on, how intelligent is she?

In September 2009, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted Lee on charges of fraud. Prosecutors accused Lee of intentionally concealing her US citizenship during one term as a Taipei city councilor and three terms as a legislator, during which she was paid more than NT$100 million (US$3 million).

That’s a reason to keep quite!