Live data from Hacker News

U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

wsj.com

11–20 of 307 posts

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#11
> U.S. law enforcement learned Peter Taylor had booked a flight from Boston to Beirut departing Wednesday with a layover in London and he was arrested by U.S. marshals as was Michael Taylor [1]

Why would someone who just helped a fugitive evade the laws of a country the U.S. has an extradition treaty with feel comfortable remaining in Boston?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/us-arrests-t...

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#12
Interesting. Japan is famously reluctant to extradite its own citizens, but they did send two to the US last year, so I wonder if somebody pulled strings to get the favor repaid. Although these are only low-level chumps, not Ghosn himself.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7d47070e-c949...

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#13

Interesting. Japan is famously reluctant to extradite its own citizens, but they did send two to the US last year, so I wonder if somebody pulled strings to get the favor repaid. Although these are only low-level chumps, not Ghosn himself. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7d47070e-c949...

> these are only low-level chumps

The operation sounds like it would have been unsuccessful without their help. Given they were arrested boarding a commercial flight in Boston, it seems they felt above reproach.

This arrest makes it less likely (though not impossible) such expertise will be able to be procured for such purposes in the future.

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#14

> U.S. law enforcement learned Peter Taylor had booked a flight from Boston to Beirut departing Wednesday with a layover in London and he was arrested by U.S. marshals as was Michael Taylor [1] Why would someone who just helped a fugitive evade the laws of a country the U.S. has an extradition treaty with feel comfortable remaining in Boston? [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/us-arrests-t...

They obviously didn't? They were trying to fly from Boston to Beirut, Lebanon, where they would have been safe.

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#16

> U.S. law enforcement learned Peter Taylor had booked a flight from Boston to Beirut departing Wednesday with a layover in London and he was arrested by U.S. marshals as was Michael Taylor [1] Why would someone who just helped a fugitive evade the laws of a country the U.S. has an extradition treaty with feel comfortable remaining in Boston? [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/us-arrests-t...

They obviously didn't? They were trying to fly from Boston to Beirut, Lebanon, where they would have been safe.

> They were trying to fly from Boston

Which means they were, months after the incident, in Boston. That strikes me as remarkably stupid, or hubristic, or both.

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#18

Interesting. Japan is famously reluctant to extradite its own citizens, but they did send two to the US last year, so I wonder if somebody pulled strings to get the favor repaid. Although these are only low-level chumps, not Ghosn himself. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7d47070e-c949...

> these are only low-level chumps The operation sounds like it would have been unsuccessful without their help. Given they were arrested boarding a commercial flight in Boston, it seems they felt above reproach. This arrest makes it less likely (though not impossible) such expertise will be able to be procured for such purposes in the future.

[deleted]

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#19
The whole escape was likely coordinated by Ghosn's wife who it seems passed the Jeff Bezos test.

Commenting on what he looked for in a wife, Bezos once said in an interview "The number one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison"

Re: U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

#20
Is leaving a country really that hard if you have a little money? Seems like something you should be able to do without the assistance of green berets unless you're in a movie.

A country like Japan must have: 1. Dozens of private jets leaving it's airspace daily. 2. Hundreds of fishing boats leaving it territorial waters daily.

Post reply on HN