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| Subject: Beat it, punk: Israhell's Olmert denies wrongdoing as he heads to prison Mon Feb 15, 2016 2:46 am | |
| JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is denying any wrongdoing, just hours before heading to prison to start serving his 19-month sentence. Olmert is the first Israeli premier to go to prison. He will be serving time for a bribery conviction and for obstructing justice. In a video released on Monday, Olmert says he "rejects outright" the bribery charges. The 70-year-old Olmert was convicted in March 2014 in a wide-ranging case that accused him of accepting bribes to promote a controversial real-estate project in Jerusalem. The charges pertained to a period when he was mayor of Jerusalem and trade minister, years before he became prime minister in 2006. Olmert's seven-year legal saga undermined the last serious round of Mideast peace talks and propelled hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to power.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/israels-olmert-denies-wrongdoing-he-heads-prison |
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