Israeli police air new allegations against premier

[DogPoundPup]

Source: A/P

JERUSALEM - Police revealed stinging new allegations against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday, accusing him of pocketing tens of thousands of dollars by deceiving multiple sources into paying for the same trips abroad.

The latest revelations came just after police grilled Olmert for a third time in a widening corruption probe - and made it even harder for him to hold on to his job and carry out peace talks with the Palestinians and Syria.

Police said Olmert is suspected of obtaining $100,000 before he became prime minister by getting multiple sources - among them state and public organizations including charities - to pay for identical trips abroad so he could pocket the difference.

The allegations were the most damaging for Olmert since police accused him in May of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash-stuffed envelopes from an American entrepreneur when he was a Cabinet minister and mayor of Jerusalem.

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[World Citizen]

1. who is in the wings? nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. his coalition is not in favor of talks.

and my worry is that he will use Iran, attack them, then demand US help, as a screen to prevent any further complaints. Hell, being at war, certainly fucked over our constitution, didn't it?

[peacetalksforall]

3. Carry out peace talks. What a crock!

Dispeace - Yes.

Talks. Just a little game the U.S. and Israel leaders are playing.

[Turbineguy]

4. He obviously needs some advice

from George Bush.

[legin]

5. you almost begin to wonder whether

being investigated for something isn't part of the 'Democratic Act'.

"You can tell how 'free' a political system we have because our leaders can possibly be charged with criminal offences. This would never happen under a dictatorship."

Democracy = Dictatorship with good PR.