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NEW YORK: An inmate whose life sentence was commuted thanks in part to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West has a book deal.
Kardashian West contributed a foreword of
After Life: My Journey From Incarceration to Freedom which comes out in May. Johnson, 63, served more than two decades of a life sentence without parole for nonviolent offences before US President Donald Trump commuted her sentence last year. Kardashian West lobbied Trump in the Oval Office. Johnson was invited to sit with First Lady Melania Trump at Tuesday’s State of the Union address. ATHENS: Greece’s deputy health minister has told the EU’s top health official to butt out after getting a reprimand for smoking in public.
Deputy minister Pavlos Polakis was caught on video this week holding a cigarette while dancing in a club.
He had also been photographed smoking at a news conference in 2016. It drew a rebuke from EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who was in Athens to mark World Cancer Day. Andriukaitis said the practice was “shameful”.
Polakis, who is also a surgeon, said he was dealing with more pressing issues at the ministry than smoking. “Learn before you speak,” Polakis wrote on Facebook to Andriukaitis. “I’ll decide when to stop smoking, on my terms.”
Greece has the highest smoking rate in the EU. The EU official also complained that the health ministry smelt of cigarettes and that nobody wore ties. “That’s a lie… the security guard at the entrance wore one. I don’t,” Polakis said.