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Israel's ex-PM Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery
BBC News ^
| 03/31/2014
| BBC News
Posted on 03/30/2014 11:53:45 PM PDT by goldstategop
Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty in a bribery trial in a case which forced him to resign to office in 2008.
Mr Olmert was convicted in what is known as the "Holyland affair" in which bribes were paid and received to speed up a luxury property development.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbcnews; corruption; ehudolmert; holylandaffair; israel
Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's fabled luck finally ran out today - and put paid to his hopes of resuscitating his political career when he was convicted in court in Israel of taking bribes to speed a luxury property development in Jerusalem when he served as the City's Mayor.
He has cemented his place as the most corrupt politician in Israeli history. Good riddance.
To: goldstategop
On the bright side, he is now well qualified to join the US Democrat party!
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posted on
03/31/2014 12:06:32 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: goldstategop
He should run for the mayor of D.C.
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posted on
03/31/2014 2:00:20 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: goldstategop
Let me guess: He was a liberal politician in Israel.
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posted on
03/31/2014 2:49:10 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
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To: goldstategop
Just wait until the current, so well loved, so well respected and so well honored Nobel Peace prize laureate, Shimon Peres (age 90) passes away. There will be VOLUMES of dirt on this so-called, Saintly elder statesman of Israel. Some even have claimed that he is a CIA agent since 1955...
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03/31/2014 3:44:38 AM PDT
by
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posted on
03/31/2014 5:05:51 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
To: Lazamataz
He was kind of an Israeli Bill Clinton philosophically, but without the charisma or tactical sense.
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posted on
03/31/2014 11:44:53 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
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