Lee freed on parole, showing Samsung’s might in SKorea

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung leader Lee Jae-yong walked out of prison Friday a year early in a parole decision demonstrating the conglomerate’s outsized influence in South Korea as well as continuing leniency for bosses who commit corporate corruption. Wearing a gray suit and a mask, Lee left the prison near Seoul to a barrage of camera flashes and bowed