“Philippine Mayor Gets Life Sentence”

Philippine mayor life sentence

Alice Guo, the Chinese-born mayor of a small town in the Philippines, made headlines a few months ago after she was arrested. Now, a Philippine court has sentenced her to life in prison for running a large-scale fraud ring. She was sentenced on Thursday (November 20) after being found guilty of human trafficking. Seven others have been sentenced to life in prison in the same case. The UK-based Independent reported that Alice Guo was elected mayor of Bambang, an agricultural town north of Manila, the Philippine capital. Although she claims…

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