Magazine ordered to correct Lu story

Yang testified that Lu had called him on Nov. 13, 2000, and said that the president was having an affair. Yang said he had then told reporters Yang Shu-mei, Wu and Tao about the phone call and directed them to write about it.

In pre-trial hearings at the Taipei District Court (台北地方法院), Yang told the judge that Chen Shih-ning (陳詩寧), a public television reporter, and Tseng Chao-ming (曾昭明), a former secretary in the Presidential Office, could confirm the magazine's story.

However, Tseng testified that he had heard about a rumored affair, but not from Lu. Chen testified that he had never claimed to be able to confirm anything.

As for the other defendants, Lai ruled Wang Chien-chuang was not guilty because he was only in charge of administrative duties and had nothing to do with the magazine's stories.

Jan was found not guilty because his title was simply an honorary one and he was not really working for the magazine.

Wang Hsing-ching was found not guilty because his duties did not include editing the stories about Lu.

The three reporters were found not guilty because the judge ruled they were only following orders in writing stories assigned to them by Yang.