I am shocked.
Posted on 12/06/2022 1:51:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
Fernández, 69, was found guilty of aggravated fraud and leading a conspiracy to award public works contracts to a friend.
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Fernández has some immunity via her government roles and is expected to launch a lengthy appeals process.
Prosecutors had sought a 12-year jail sentence and wanted her banned from holding public office for life.
Prosecutors said Fernández had led an unlawful partnership during the time when she was president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
They said she had created a kickback scheme which steered lucrative public work contracts towards a friend of hers in return for bribes.
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The prosecutors said that they uncovered irregularities in dozens of public work tenders awarded in the southern province of Santa Cruz, Fernández's political stronghold. Many of the construction projects were never completed.
Prosecutor Diego Luciani described it as "probably the biggest corruption operation the country has known".
He also said the alleged kickback scheme had caused the Argentine state a loss of at least $1bn (£818m).
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She’s a piker compared to the Biden Crime Family….
A Peronist guilty of corruption??????
It would have been news if a Peronist was innocent of corruption.
Joe Biden is the Juan Peron of the USA. Jill is Evita. Hopelessly corrupt and adored by the 1%.
No, she is not guilty of corruption, she is guilty of being caught at corruption.......
I am shocked.
Seems that Argentina has a conservative court and Brazil marxists.
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