"Sac le bleu!"
Posted on 11/21/2007 1:23:21 PM PST by Aristotelian
PARIS - Alleged wrongdoing in Jacques Chirac's past came back Wednesday to trouble his retirement, when a judge took the unprecedented step of filing preliminary embezzlement charges against the former two-term president of France.
Chirac insisted he had committed no wrongdoing. Political opinion was divided on whether the judge had scored a victory for French justice or merely underscored its impotence — because only since he left office in May have judges been able to pursue Chirac.
Since he lost his presidential immunity, Chirac has now been questioned by two different judges looking into suspected misuse of public money and other alleged wrongdoing in his 18-year tenure as mayor of Paris, which served as one of his springboards for the presidency in 1995.
The judge that summoned him to her office Wednesday, Xaviere Simeoni, is investigating whether people in Chirac's circle were given sham jobs as advisers, paid by Paris City Hall even though they weren't working for it.
The respected daily Le Monde said Chirac specifically is suspected, as Paris mayor, of having hired a chauffeur in 1990 who later told investigators that he in fact had worked for a senator in Chirac's political party.
Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977-95 and president of France from 1995 until May 16 this year.
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Chirac will beat all this petty stuff and end up with a fine and 3 years of mandatory wine-tasting and can-can watching at Maxim's.
The current investigation is merely diversionary tactics to cover up not going after him for the real McCoix which is the multimillion Oil for Food criminal scandal, money laundering and assorted other U.N./France/Chirac/Kofi/Kofi Jr. confidence games.
Leni
No doubt, isn’t that the norm in a skiffy cut-rate socialist government? No penalty for slacking, no incentive to work harder, what do they think is going to happen? In socialism, much like the haunts of the liberals, you get a high position by knowing somebody. Merit, integrity, and work ethic need not apply.
Chirac should be hanged for his crimes and then sent to the Hague for trial...
bump!
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Scientists say it’s because of global warming.
Chirac = French Lite Version of the Clintoons
Our government should hold Chirac responsible for OIF. Had he not been a Saddam facilitator, the entire operation might not have been necessary.
Yes! Chirac’s as crooked as they come. Intolerable, even for the French.
Sark is a HUGE improvement.
Meanwhile his wife just endorsed Hillary. Corruption seems to follow those people like hungry kittens.
That’s precisely the first thought that came to my mind when I read that Chirac’s wife was endorsing Hillary.
So not only do they have that whole Socialist thing in common...they’re both as crooked as the day is long.
"Sac le bleu!"
Isn’t it “sacre bleu!” ?
WAIT ‘TILL THEY START INVESTIGATING THE BILLIONS IN SADAM’S “OIL FOR FOOLS” PROGRAM....
CONSIDER HOW THE CHIRACs AND CLINTONs BOTH ENTERED POLITICS ON THE VERGE OF POVERTY AND ARE NOW MULTI-MULTI$$$ CROOKS.
“Only in America is the President a Pope, infallible, untouchable!”
If only Richard Nixon could believe that. But, wait. He was a Republican and had a sense of shame when he broke the law.
fry this frenchman!
Boil the frog ...
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