fossilesque@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoAndrew Mountbatten Windsor summoned by US Congressnews.sky.comexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1240
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minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·9 days agoSo … the US Congress can just summon a citizen from a different country … and the citizen is compelled to … do what exactly?
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·9 days agoNothing, which is why the letter phrases it as a “request.” In order to be extradited he’d have to actually be charged with a specific crime, insofar as I am aware.
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 days agoCharging him with a crime sounds like a good start … though I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoMaybe if we got a hold of those damn Epstein files…!
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoIt’s possible that they specifically won’t in order to get info on others. But that’s me being optimistic
So … the US Congress can just summon a citizen from a different country … and the citizen is compelled to … do what exactly?
Nothing, which is why the letter phrases it as a “request.”
In order to be extradited he’d have to actually be charged with a specific crime, insofar as I am aware.
Charging him with a crime sounds like a good start … though I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Maybe if we got a hold of those damn Epstein files…!
It’s possible that they specifically won’t in order to get info on others. But that’s me being optimistic