Today, CEO Song Young-gil was sentenced to two years in prison and arrested in c

Today, CEO Song Young-gil was sentenced to two years in prison and arrested in court.

The prosecution launched an investigation into Song loudly, revealing the so-called "money envelope suspicion" that Song Young-gil distributed money envelopes ahead of the party's election, using a recording file found on the mobile phone of Lee Jung-geun, a former Democratic Party official. After that, the prosecution added charges of violating the Political Fund Act, saying that the money donated to civic groups involving Song Young-gil was actually political funds for Song, which was the epitome of a dust-off investigation.

In the first trial ruling sentenced today, the court acquitted Lee of the "money envelope" case (violation of political party law), which is the main charge. The reason is that the recorded file of Lee Jung-geun's mobile phone, which was the clue of the investigation, is evidence of illegal collection.

The prosecution argued that the above recording file was not evidence of illegal collection because it was arbitrarily submitted by Lee Jung-geun, but the court did not admit the randomness of the mobile phone submission, only to find out by chance that the reason was me. The court cited "the fact that (Lee Jung-geun) sued the prosecutor and reporter when the recording file was exposed to the media" as the main reason for not acknowledging the randomness of Lee Jung-geun's mobile phone submission, because I, Lee Jung-geun's lawyer, persuaded Lee to sue the prosecutor and others.

It is very difficult for a suspect who was under investigation by the prosecution in custody to sue the prosecutors who were investigating him, and at the time, I proposed a hyper-medical prescription to sue the prosecutors and reporters at the appeal of Lee Jung-geun, who was suffering from excessive media play by the prosecution, and stopped the prosecution's media play by filing a complaint in April 2023. It is obvious that I will be vindictive to the prosecution, but the reason why I invited Lee Jung-geun to sue the prosecutors and made a loud press announcement after the complaint was because of his sense of calling as a lawyer, and I did not know that the act would lead to the acquittal of CEO Song Young-gil.

I hope that CEO Song Young-gil will be acquitted at the appeal trial of the remaining charges that he was convicted of today. At that time, I should ask CEO Song to give me a cup of soju.