Worth noting: No agreement by Meng to cooperate in the DOJ Prosecution of Huawei; no agreement by Meng to pay any fines.
https://twitter.com/julianku/status/1441497090539073541
I am not an expert on deferred prosecution agreements, but I think they generally involve some kind of promise to cooperate and some kind of fine. The fact that Meng essentially faces no consequences for her admitted misconduct is a pretty big defeat for @TheJusticeDept.
Sometimes the bad guys win. Without the pressure in Canada and the US created by the Kovrig/Spavor arrests, @TheJusticeDept could have waited for the extradition to play out. But Meng’s appeals could have gone on for years. And Kovrig/Spavor wd be stuck for all of that time.
Letting Meng walk on a light DPA doesn’t seem to make sense except as a diplomatic and humanitarian gesture to try to get Kovrig and Spavor out.
So China is rewarded for its hostage taking, and worse, it has a game plan to block or deter any future effort by @TheJusticeDept to prosecute or extradite high-level Chinese figures.
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