Eight months into President Joe Biden’s first year as commander-in-chief, he’s making good on a campaign pledge to form an administration that would “look like America,” selecting for the Defense Department top officials meant to reflect the country’s diversity.
Chief Judge Hideo Nirei said the former Green Beret and his son had committed a serious violation of the law, as now there is next to no chance of putting Ghosn on trial.
At the outset of their trial earlier this month, former Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter indicated they weren’t fighting the allegations, in Japan’s equivalent of pleading guilty.
An unknown fraction of service members who were punished for refusing the anthrax vaccine in the late 1990s and early 2000s have sought to have their records corrected, but only a few have had success.
Statements by Michael Taylor and his son, Peter, on the opening day of their trial in Tokyo suggest the pair don’t plan to fight charges of assisting a criminal.