Posted on 04/10/2010 10:51:14 PM PDT by Nachum
Police will be at the airport to arrest former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert if and when he returns to Israel, sources told TIME magazine. On Saturday, he categorically denied any involvement with the latest and perhaps largest political scandal, centering on Olmert’s former legal aide and friend Uri Messer.
Messer is one of several political, legal and financial leaders who have been charged with bribery in the huge Holyland apartment project in Jerusalem. Several steps in its approval coincided with Olmert’s tenure as mayor of the capital and when he was Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor in the Sharon government in 2006. The land for the apartment project had been zoned for a hotel.
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This guy was a disaster, from his handling of the Hezbollah conflict to this.
Glad they have new leadership.
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