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Preliminary charges filed against Chirac
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| Nov 21 2007
| PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD
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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chirac; france; liberals; rats
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Corruption rumors have circulated around Chirac for ages. While president, he was able to nix any investigation or indictment.
To: Aristotelian
I’ve seen his face. He’s guilty.
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posted on
11/21/2007 1:25:13 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: Aristotelian
Chirac’s lawyer advising him: “You have a great opportunity now to shut up.”
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posted on
11/21/2007 1:29:02 PM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: sam_paine
... Chirac insisted he had committed no wrongdoing ...
Don't they all? I guess a politician can do no wrong.
/src
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posted on
11/21/2007 1:32:29 PM PST
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Aristotelian
I really hope this catches up with him.
To: Aristotelian
Jockieshorts is just like the Klintons and ALL MARXISTS DIMOCRATS.
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posted on
11/21/2007 1:53:38 PM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(If Marxist's Dimocrat Party & the Fed Gov want my guns, COME AND TRY TO GET THEM!)
To: Aristotelian
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. Bill and Hillary hate competition.
To: Aristotelian
Wonder what his cut from the Iraq Oil for Food UN scam was to pay him to veto UN Resolutions.
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posted on
11/21/2007 2:34:42 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"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." Since when is getting paid for not working against the law in France?
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posted on
11/21/2007 2:34:45 PM PST
by
magellan
To: Aristotelian
Chirac insisted he had committed no wrongdoing. Not only is he an embezzler, he is a liar too.
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posted on
11/21/2007 2:38:22 PM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: Aristotelian; All
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posted on
11/21/2007 2:44:42 PM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: Aristotelian
I wonder if this means that a French judge might someday indict Willard’s ... person.
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posted on
11/21/2007 3:06:42 PM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
To: Aristotelian
A corrupt French mayor of Paris. Who would have known?
To: Aristotelian
Chirac, the Willie Brown of French politics.
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posted on
11/21/2007 3:19:57 PM PST
by
keat
(You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Chirac: “I did not write checks with that woman...”
To: RobinOfKingston
I won’t be satisfied about the merits of this indictment until his alleged crimes can be analyzed and evaluated under Scottish law.
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
11/21/2007 5:19:28 PM PST
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Aristotelian
House cleaning must have started.
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posted on
11/21/2007 5:39:25 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Aristotelian
Probably got bribed by Total/Elf/Fina.
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posted on
11/21/2007 6:12:16 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
To: Aristotelian
Only in America is the President a Pope, infallible, untouchable!
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posted on
11/21/2007 6:15:07 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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