Israeli police chiefs have decided to recommend indicting PM Benjamin Netanyahu for corruption
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Same reaction I had combine withWord?
Dude had to be mad sloppy with some shyt. Good, can’t wait till the same happens on our side of the pond
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I really hope the Attorney General goes with it
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Police chiefs recommends charges be brought up? Isn't that the Cabinet, Parliament, or AG's job to do so?
The AG will make the decision but from what I'm reading it seems likely
Trump was just as corrupt dealing with the Israeli government yet we see hardly any domestic news about all that. Wonder why 
Sara Netanyahu will be indicted in corruption case: report
This file picture shows Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attending parliament on January 31, 2017
GALI TIBBON (AFP/File)
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will be indicted in a corruption case related to misuse of public funds, Israeli Channel 10 reported on Sunday.
Another report from Hadashot TV on Sunday contradicted Channel 10, saying Mandelblit has given Sara Netanyahu until the end of the week to decide on a plea deal, in which she will reimburse the state for misusing public funds.
Hadashot's report said that Sara Netanyahu initially was asked to pay NIS 200,000 ($56,128) in a plea deal, but that she rejected it outright, saying she would rather go to jail than reimburse the state.
The attorneys claimed that Mrs. Netanyahu had trusted the financial and administrative teams at the prime minister’s residence and Prime Minister’s Office to monitor the details of her spending, and was unaware at the time that she was committing an offense. They argued that she therefore did not knowingly commit a crime.
Mrs. Netanyahu, a former child psychologist, has been questioned extensively by by the Israeli police’s national fraud squad over allegations that she misappropriated taxpayer funds to pay for meals at the official prime ministerial residence.
Netanyahu is suspected of working closely with the former head of the residence, Ezra Seidoff, to create the "false impression" that cooks at the Balfour St. house were not employed in a cookery, thus allowing her to circumvent a regulation and order external meals at the taxpayer's expense.
It is alleged that 359,000 shekels ($102,000) of meals were fraudulently ordered from chefs and restaurants.
In a win for Sara Netanyahu, state prosecutors did not find sufficient evidence to charge her over several other matters, including the employment of a live-in caregiver for her father, hiring an electrician by circumventing the required tender process and transferring garden furniture paid for by the taxpayer to the family's private home in the ritzy seaside town of Caesarea.
Reports from as early as spring 2016 claimed that police would push for charges to be laid in the case.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu leave for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23 2017.
Amos Ben Gershom/GPO
Both Sara and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have denied the allegations and decried a “witch hunt” against their family, which is embroiled in several other corruption and fraud investigations.
In an investigation dubbed “Case 1,000”, the Neyanyahus are suspected of receiving one million shekels ($285,000, 230,000 euros) of luxury cigars, champagne and jewelry from wealthy personalities in exchange for financial or personal favors.
In another case, (“Case 2,000”) investigators suspect the premier of trying to reach an agreement with the owner of Yediot Aharonot, a top Israeli daily newspaper, for more favorable coverage of himself and his wife.
A similar agreement is said to have been proposed through intermediaries to Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Israel’s Bezeq communications giant and owner of the popular Walla! news website. Both Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu have been questioned in relation to the probe, known as “Case 4,000”.
In a bombshell revelation related to their investigation of “Case 4,000”, Judge Hila Gerstl told police that in 2015, Nir Hefetz (a former personal spokesman for the Netanyahu family and suspect-turned-state’s witness in the case), offered her the job of Attorney General through an intermediary in exchange for her using her new post to kill the indictment against Sara over illegal household spending.
The cases have fueled speculation he could be forced to step down or call an early election but Netanyahu has maintained that he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
This file picture shows Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attending parliament on January 31, 2017
GALI TIBBON (AFP/File)
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will be indicted in a corruption case related to misuse of public funds, Israeli Channel 10 reported on Sunday.
Another report from Hadashot TV on Sunday contradicted Channel 10, saying Mandelblit has given Sara Netanyahu until the end of the week to decide on a plea deal, in which she will reimburse the state for misusing public funds.
Hadashot's report said that Sara Netanyahu initially was asked to pay NIS 200,000 ($56,128) in a plea deal, but that she rejected it outright, saying she would rather go to jail than reimburse the state.
The attorneys claimed that Mrs. Netanyahu had trusted the financial and administrative teams at the prime minister’s residence and Prime Minister’s Office to monitor the details of her spending, and was unaware at the time that she was committing an offense. They argued that she therefore did not knowingly commit a crime.
Mrs. Netanyahu, a former child psychologist, has been questioned extensively by by the Israeli police’s national fraud squad over allegations that she misappropriated taxpayer funds to pay for meals at the official prime ministerial residence.
Netanyahu is suspected of working closely with the former head of the residence, Ezra Seidoff, to create the "false impression" that cooks at the Balfour St. house were not employed in a cookery, thus allowing her to circumvent a regulation and order external meals at the taxpayer's expense.
It is alleged that 359,000 shekels ($102,000) of meals were fraudulently ordered from chefs and restaurants.
In a win for Sara Netanyahu, state prosecutors did not find sufficient evidence to charge her over several other matters, including the employment of a live-in caregiver for her father, hiring an electrician by circumventing the required tender process and transferring garden furniture paid for by the taxpayer to the family's private home in the ritzy seaside town of Caesarea.
Reports from as early as spring 2016 claimed that police would push for charges to be laid in the case.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu leave for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23 2017.
Amos Ben Gershom/GPO
Both Sara and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have denied the allegations and decried a “witch hunt” against their family, which is embroiled in several other corruption and fraud investigations.
In an investigation dubbed “Case 1,000”, the Neyanyahus are suspected of receiving one million shekels ($285,000, 230,000 euros) of luxury cigars, champagne and jewelry from wealthy personalities in exchange for financial or personal favors.
In another case, (“Case 2,000”) investigators suspect the premier of trying to reach an agreement with the owner of Yediot Aharonot, a top Israeli daily newspaper, for more favorable coverage of himself and his wife.
A similar agreement is said to have been proposed through intermediaries to Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Israel’s Bezeq communications giant and owner of the popular Walla! news website. Both Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu have been questioned in relation to the probe, known as “Case 4,000”.
In a bombshell revelation related to their investigation of “Case 4,000”, Judge Hila Gerstl told police that in 2015, Nir Hefetz (a former personal spokesman for the Netanyahu family and suspect-turned-state’s witness in the case), offered her the job of Attorney General through an intermediary in exchange for her using her new post to kill the indictment against Sara over illegal household spending.
The cases have fueled speculation he could be forced to step down or call an early election but Netanyahu has maintained that he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
good thing he's about to goad america into war with iran to distract from these pesky allegations 