{"id":239179,"date":"2026-07-21T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-finance-minister-accuses-vice-president-of-ordering-judge-to-overturn-his-corruption-acquittal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:45:41","slug":"liberia-ex-finance-minister-accuses-vice-president-of-ordering-judge-to-overturn-his-corruption-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-finance-minister-accuses-vice-president-of-ordering-judge-to-overturn-his-corruption-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex-Finance Minister Accuses Vice President of Ordering Judge to Overturn His Corruption Acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\"><strong>MONROVIA &#8211;<\/strong> Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has accused Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung of instructing Criminal Court &#8216;C&#8217; Judge Ousman F. Feika to overturn his May 8 jury acquittal in the US$6.2 million economic sabotage case, a charge that lands on the eve of Judge Feika&#8217;s anticipated ruling on jury misconduct allegations and threatens to plunge one of Liberia&#8217;s most politically combustible prosecutions into open crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In a lengthy Facebook post on Monday,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA &#8211; Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has accused Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung of instructing Criminal Court &#8216;C&#8217; Judge Ousman F. Feika to overturn his May 8 jury acquittal in the US$6.2 million economic sabotage case, a charge that lands on the eve of Judge Feika&#8217;s anticipated ruling on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[5070,6558,258,256,4723,40574,7511,4712,1107,5941,257,28853,21344,2450,254,8505],"class_list":["post-239179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accuses","tag-acquittal","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-exfinance","tag-judge","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-ordering","tag-overturn","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}