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Prosecutor Comes After Marine Le Pen With Presidential Campaign Finances Allegation
https://www.breitbart.com/europe ^ | 7/11/2024 | KURT ZINDULKA

Posted on 07/11/2024 8:39:43 AM PDT by bitt

French populist leader Marine Le Pen is facing an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations in relation to her 2022 presidential run against Emmanuel Macron.

Fresh off her anti-mass migration National Rally (RN) party’s best-ever performance in a legislative election, winning 143 seats in the National Assembly — the best ever for the party — it has been revealed that the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation into alleged illegal financing of Marine Le Pen’s 2022 presidential campaign.

The investigation, which was opened on July 2nd — just two days after her party won the first round of the snap legislative elections — will probe alleged fraud, forgery, and a potentially illegally accepted loan, broadcaster BFMTV reports.

Responding to the report a top RN official told the AFP: “We don’t know what the facts are. We had the information of the opening of this investigation, like everyone else, this (Tuesday) morning on BFMTV”

“I am very surprised because the campaign account was validated in December 2022 and repaid in February 2023,” he added.

Le Pen is already facing criminal prosecution over allegations that she and other members of her party fraudulently established fake employees in the European Parliament to divert money to fund political activities in France.

If convicted the populist leader could face up to ten years in prison as well as a ban on running for public office, potentially blocking her from running in the 2027 presidential election.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignfinances; marinelepen
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1 posted on 07/11/2024 8:39:43 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 07/11/2024 8:39:59 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Jack Smith may not be busy after September.

Maybe he could have the job. Its right up his alley.


3 posted on 07/11/2024 8:41:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bitt

Lawfare against conservatives.


4 posted on 07/11/2024 8:41:34 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Fido969

Same story in Brazil. They are going after its prominent victim of vote fraud. Another conservative under attack by Leftist Lawfare.


5 posted on 07/11/2024 8:46:45 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: bitt

Lawfare comes to France.


6 posted on 07/11/2024 8:47:49 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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So it’s lawfare against the US’s Trump, the UK’s Tommy Robinson , and now France’s Le Pen. Conservative leaders are being targeted.

I wonder how long before the government starts to target the average conservative citizen? That really wouldn’t be so hard to do.

Conservative speech = hate speech = illegal speech.

Trump 2024, or bust.


7 posted on 07/11/2024 8:49:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: bitt

They learn from our Lawfare.


8 posted on 07/11/2024 8:51:13 AM PDT by mairdie (Ghost Doctor - Like a Surgeon - "Weird Al" Yankovic https://youtu.be/Te0bbWnoLZ8)
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They’ve learned from USA’s democrats!


9 posted on 07/11/2024 8:51:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Fido969

Hmm there is something familiar about this.


10 posted on 07/11/2024 8:53:46 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: bitt

They should convict her of 34 felonies.


11 posted on 07/11/2024 9:06:30 AM PDT by nitzy (Everything makes sense once you realize that we don't rule over ourselves and our rulers hate us.)
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“Six ways to Sunday!”


12 posted on 07/11/2024 9:07:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bitt

“The checks give us access to power and it is power that is needed to persuade our pitcher to come out of the game.”

https://deadline.com/2024/07/joe-biden-has-to-go-damon-lindelof-democrat-donor-1236000351/


13 posted on 07/11/2024 9:10:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Let’s all wish Matt Colangelo success in his new gig as Deputy Prosecutor in the Paris Prosecutor’s office!


14 posted on 07/11/2024 9:21:07 AM PDT by SFConservative
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15 posted on 07/11/2024 9:42:25 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themrrselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Fido969

Lawfare against conservatives.
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This has become the Commie’s go-to weapon to attack mankind/Conservatives. It’s a red flag to all freedom lovers to never let evil/Commies gain power. That’s why voters in November must make sure that both houses of Congress are in Conservative hands at the end of the day or else Trump will literally have hell to pay. Just like the Devil, they never change their deceptive, vengeful, evil ways.


16 posted on 07/11/2024 9:55:26 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Leaning Right
I wonder how long before the government starts to target the average conservative citizen?

How long? Maybe now...Outrageous: Biden’s Defense Department Labels Pro-Life Organizations as “Terrorist Organizations” During Anti-Terrorism Briefing
17 posted on 07/11/2024 9:59:33 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: bitt

Western nations have become banana republics. One wonders when the dam will break.


18 posted on 07/11/2024 10:02:31 AM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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Western nations have become banana republics. One wonders when the dam will break.

You can argue that we do not really have free elections in Western nations anymore. They're all controlled by the Left. Trudeau in Canada, Biden in USA, Macron in France. All the elections were manipulated to a degree.

19 posted on 07/11/2024 10:06:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: bitt

The marxist left is coordinating legal attacks on their enemies, its not only here


20 posted on 07/11/2024 10:24:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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