Middle East Focus: French Presidents: Corrupts R Us………….

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French Presidents: Corrupts R Us………….

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“The city council of Paris approved a two billion euro settlement to drop its case against former French president Jacques Chirac for graft during his tenure as the city’s mayor. In a historic vote on Monday, the Paris city council agreed to drop its graft case against former French president Jacques Chirac. The council, led by the Socialist Party (PS), voted 147 to 13 with one abstention in favour of an out of court settlement worth 2,218,072 euros. In August 2010 Chirac agreed to pay the city hall 550,000 euros to drop its graft case against him, even if his corruption trial will go ahead. The rest of the more than two million euros will be paid by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party……”

After being mayor, AFTER the graft, he was elected TWICE as president by the French people. Sarkozy will probably also be investigated as well, after he leaves office. I have stated here before that Charles de Gaulle was the last French president not tainted with corruption, be it from graft or taking West African blood diamonds from dictators and other gifts from Middle East potentates. Even Iran’s Ahamadinejad is not corrupt in a financial sense (he certainly doesn’t dress like it).
And the French often blame Americans for electing the 'wrong' presidents!
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mhg

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