Posted on 07/30/2018 6:11:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
China has charged its former top Internet regulator Lu Wei with corruption.
Charges against Lu and two other former officials Mo Jiancheng and Zhang Jiehui were made by the Supreme People’s Procurate and announced on Monday through state-owned media. Cases against the three were filed in Ningbo, Beijing and Taiyuan. Trial dates were not announced.
State media said that Lu had taken advantage of his positions and used other officials to seek profits for others. It said he had accepted “huge amount of money and property.”
The allegations related to Lu’s activities while at state news agency Xinhua, the Beijing municipal party committee, Communist Party’s central committee and at the Cyberspace Administration of China.
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For those not familiar with that Jian Yang quote from Silicon Valley you can check out this VIDEO CLIP.
Xi is removing anyone who might have their own support, so he can name the yes men to insure he is as powerful as Mao. “Corruption” is the handle by which he brings down those who are not 100% his.
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