Posted on 07/14/2008 6:25:23 AM PDT by Victory111
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has come under renewed intense pressure to step down this week amid allegations that he defrauded a number of national charities during his time as mayor of Jerusalem and minister of industry and trade.
According to a police statement released at the weekend, evidence suggests that over the course of many years Olmert asked several different charities to fund each of his trips abroad on state business. The money from only one charity was needed to pay for each trip, while the money from the others was deposited into a special bank account that the Olmert family used to finance personal vacations.
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Soooo Olmert is Israel’s Al Franken?
If this is true, maybe the Israelis can remove him and have someone at the top who will actually do something about Hezbollah/Hamas/Iran.
LOL guess he watched “the Producers” one to many times.
Just raise more money than you need and pocket the rest.
Why does he remain in power? Why is he not in a jail cell this very moment? Arrest the SOB.
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” I HEARD IT EXPLAINED NY A RESIDENT JEWISH MAN THAT ... THE PARTY MEMBERS MUST BE IN OFFICE FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO QUALIFY FOR LIFETIME RETIREMENT OR SOME SUCH.
SEEMS LIKE IT WAS 2 (or more) COMPLETE YEARS ... AND THAT THEY WERE SIMPLY HOLDING ON UNTIL THAT TIME HAD PASSED BEFORE DEALING WITH OLMERT. ooopppss ... sorry for the caps.
Anyway the gist of it was their own self interest came first ... no matter what Olmert did. This was from a man that is running in the next election with a party he is forming anew. His name escapes in at this moment. Interesting.
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