KMT Legislator Lo Ming-tsai (
He threatened to reveal secrets about some legislators and to name "10 vicious rats" of the legislature if his father is treated unfairly.
At a meeting yesterday morning, the younger Lo condemned the media for saying that local banks, pressured by his father, granted loans of over NT$3 billion to companies owned by the Lo family.
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
The gangster's son also demanded that the Ministry of Finance make public all bank records of lawmakers, threatening to name the "10 vicious rats" of the legislature and expose the dirty secrets of his "hypocritical" colleagues before the Dec. 1 elections.
Earlier, his 58-year-old father singled out DPP caucus convener Chou Po-lun (周伯倫) and lawmaker Lin Wen-lang (林文郎), calling the former a womanizer and the latter a pretender.
The younger Lo did not say whether his father would return to Taiwan this Saturday to attend the opening ceremony of his campaign office. His father flew to Hong Kong on Oct. 23, only hours before police officially listed him as a hoodlum.
According to Lo, his father would only return to Taiwan under three conditions: A fair judicial environment, an end to "green terror" (綠色恐怖) and a public meeting with high-level officials at the Presidential Office.
Lo Ming-tsai also criticized President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) for turning against his father, saying that Chen's aides had in fact held a secret meeting with his father at the Lai Lai Sheraton Hotel in Taipei last year to seek the support of the Lo family inside the Legislative Yuan.
"This is a case of political persecution," the gangster's son said.
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