• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    HOW were they allowed to, though?

    Weren’t they already convicted and serving prison sentences?

    Or is the Romanian government as corrupt as the US one and just set them free for bribes and/or political reasons?

    • absquatulate@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      They were convicted but it didn’t stick ( or someone intervened ) and afterwards i’m fairly certain they were set free and allowed to go to florida in an exchange of favours: we give you your guys and you shut up about us cancelling elections ( back then maga was particularly vocal about those elections, for good reason too). And wouldn’t you know it, not a maga peep about the elections since. The tates even revisited Romania to “make investments here”. Isn’t it nice when crooks scratch each other’s backs?

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        7 days ago

        This is not correct; they haven’t been convicted of anything yet.

        They’re out on the equivalent of bail awaiting trial. That they are not wearing ankle tags or the like and are allowed to travel was thanks to pressure from the US Government, though.