Posted on 05/26/2015 2:48:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jerusalem (CNN)Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been sentenced to eight months in prison for taking cash from an American businessman.
He was also fined $25,700.
Police said Olmert received the money from 1993 through 2006, during his tenure as Jerusalem's mayor and while holding ministerial positions under former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He took over as prime minister in 2006 after a stroke incapacitated Sharon.
The new sentence is in addition to the six years in prison Olmert is already facing for taking bribes related to a controversial Jerusalem housing project -- also while he was mayor.
Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. He served as prime minister from 2006 to 2009.
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Too bad we don’t do this in our country. We wouldn’t have Hillary running for president because she would be in prison.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The guy was a defence forces commander and was in the Entebbe raid same as Bib Netanyahu and Bibis brother
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