Sara Netanyahu Expected to Be Indicted for Fraud

PJ Media ^ | 09/06/2017 | Avner Zarmi

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Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reports that Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit intends to indict Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for fraud involving goods worth NS 400,000 ($111,861).

The charges stem from accusations made by the former chief caretaker of the prime minister’s residence, Meni Naftali. Naftali has been leading demonstrations in recent weeks in front of Mandelblit’s home in Petach Tiqva concerning various scandals involving the prime minister and his inner circle. The fraud in this case involves Mrs. Netanyahu ordering private meals from the residence chef, against regulations, and attempting to conceal the orders within inflated official expenditures.

This is expected to be the first of several such actions in the coming months, as three other investigations are underway.

Case 1000: The prime minister and his family are suspected of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of expensive gifts, including cigars, fine wines and liqueurs, jewelry, and airline tickets and bookings at luxury hotels from wealthy foreign businessmen -- some of whom have had business before the state. The recent agreement with Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, Ari Harow, to turn state’s witness may change the nature of this investigation from fraud and breach of trust to out-and-out bribery.

Case 2000: Netanyahu was caught on tape attempting to conspire with Israeli newspaper magnate Amnon Mozes. Mozes is owner and publisher of the popular Israeli daily Yedi’oth Acharonoth, the most widely circulated Hebrew-language paper in the country, which has often been critical of the prime minister and his policies. Netanyahu is on tape offering to get a law passed that would have restricted circulation of Mozes’ chief competitor, Yisrael Hayom, owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, which is generally supportive of Netanyahu’s policies and is distributed free of charge.

[bigbob]

This was the main story on Drudge the other day - who really cares?

[DoughtyOne]

I suspect this is driven by a man who hates Netanyahu as much as some folks here hate Trump.

I’m not here to run cover for someone who has done things that are wrong, but I remain unconvinced that Netanyahu or his wife would knowingly break the law.

[Zathras]

I was in Israel back in ‘98 when Clinton and State Dept targeted Netanyahu the last time.
They will do or say anything to keep him from running Israel.

[DoughtyOne]

I remember it well. All this talk about Russia, and the Clintons and Obama had been doing it all along in Israel and even Britain. There were probably other nations as well.

They sent their own campaign people over there to intervene in foreign elections. The media hardly even commented on it. They reported it and that was it. I’m shocked they went that far, and I’ll bet they didn’t in some instances.

I agree with your take on what they’d love to see happen to Netanyahu. He isn’t willing to cave to the Arabs.