Feng Ting-kuo

Feng Ting-kuo (Chinese: 馮定國; born 24 September 1950) is a Taiwanese politician. He served on the Taipei City Council from 1985 to 1988, and was a member of the National Assembly between 1992 and 1996, then represented Taichung County in the Legislative Yuan until 2008.

Education

Feng obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Chinese Culture University before earning a master's degree in computer science from the State University of New York and a doctorate in computer education at the University of Denver.^[1]

Political career

Feng was first elected to the Taipei City Council and later sat on the National Assembly.^[2][3] He was a New Party candidate for Taichung County in the 1995 legislative elections and won. Feng was reelected in 1998, and switched political affiliations to the People First Party in April 2001,^[4] eight months before a second successful reelection bid. Feng supported a 2004 proposal for the People First Party to merge with the Kuomintang,^[5] though plans fell through. He backed efforts to simplify the process foreign nationals married to native Taiwanese had to go through to obtain a work permit.^[6] The People First Party suggested Feng fill a vacancy on the Control Yuan in 2007, but he did not receive an official nomination.^[7][8] Later that year, Feng suspended his legislative campaign in favor of Kuomintang candidate Chiang Lien-fu.^[9]

Controversy

Feng was charged with bribery in 2008, for accepting a sum of money traced to the National Chinese Herbal Apothecary Association in 1998.^[10] The Taipei District Court acquitted Feng in January 2009,^[11] but the ruling was overturned by the Taiwan High Court in September 2010, which sentenced Feng to seven years and two months imprisonment.^[12][13]

The Taiwan High Court ruled on a separate case involving Feng in 2012, finding him not guilty of breaching the Assembly and Parade Act in a March 2004 protest of presidential election results.^[14][15]

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