Samsung Vice Chairman gets 2.5-yr jail term in retrial of bribery case

A South Korean court has sentenced Samsung's Vice Chairman Jay Y Lee to two and a half years in prison during the retrial of a 2016 bribery case. In 2017, Lee was convicted and sentenced for five years in jail for bribing an associate of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye. His sentence was later reduced and suspended on appeal.