| | MA YING JEOU CAUGHT FOR CORRUPTION
Read the full article here: http://indiac.blogspot.com/2006/11/differences-between-cases-of-ma-ying.html
Today it was announced that Ma Ying Jeou seems to have receipts for buying women's shoes. But that means there is at least another $16.3 million unaccounted for. Over at "Its not a Democracy, Its a Conspiracy", the Taiwan blog, Tim has one juicy article titled, "The Differences Between the Cases of Ma Ying Jeou and Chen Shui Bian".
The first part of the problem is that there were huge discrepancies in the Taipei Mayor's receipts. But Mayor Ma blames it on his staffer, and claims that his staffer played "switcheroo", swapping large receipts with smaller ones, so as to save on paperwork. This is tricky because as Tim says, nobody is blaming his staffer, or even suspecting his staffer of pocketing the money.
"Although I knew nothing about it and so far there is no evidence to prove [my staffer] pocketed the money, I still need to shoulder administrative, political and moral responsibility for this blemish ... I offer my sincere apologies to Taipei residents," Ma told a press conference at Taipei City Hall."
But then Tim links to an article that says Taipei City staffer Yu Wen (??) has only submitted just about 4 receipts a day. FOUR. This is where your tax money is going folks! Why is Yu Wen even hired if all this person does is file only 4 receipts a day? There's more:
"...Taipei Information Department Director Lo Chih-cheng (???) also admitted to some key points during an on-air phone call to SET's
(????) "Talking Show" (????). First, he admitted that Ma deposited the
NT$170,000/month which didn't require receipts into his personal
account. He also admitted that Ma subsequently declared that money as
part of his personal assets in a statement to the Examination Yuan,
though he said he didn't know how much it was altogether..."
There you have it folks. Corruption. But there's more:
"....Taipei City Government
Secretariat Director Lee Shu-te (???) claims that about NT$80,000/month
was used "to reward staff members," according to an article in Friday's Taipei Times."
"The law requires that Ma return the unused portion of those funds to an
account specifically for the purpose of collecting that remaining
money, and Ma apparently did not follow this law..."
Okay so Ma Ying Jeou won't step down. What will he do then?
"....Ma is trying to avoid the "jaws of death" is by saying
he'll donate NT$15,000,000 to charity. How amusing! If I stole your
money and then donated a portion of it (no matter how large) to
charity, I would be totally avoiding two things: 1) paying back the
victim; and 2) atoning for the crime..."
Thats about it. However one thing is for certain, the Teflon Don has die-hard followers and supporters. Instead of biting their own words, they'll probably play along and blame the staffer, blame anyone except who they deem heroes. The sad part is, Ma can probably lie and his constituents will eat it. I will go so far to say that had Ma Ying Jeou been born a woman, "she" could have triplets and still convince her constituents that she's a virgin.
I also wanted to add that, the man running the Ministry of Audit had Mayor Ma at his wedding and has close ties to Lien Chan. I'm sure there will be a very fair investigation. Interestingly enough, none of this has made the front cover of major Chinese PRC papers. Shows you who they really support.
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