Many others in other countries too should look on this and be warned. Everybody cannot get away scot-free, things change and governments change and if you had done something wrong, you can be brought up to face your criminal activities when you are no longer holding all those important powerful portfolios you once had as protection. The wrongs done while one was playing God can catch up when one is thrown out of that role and their fortune and their children's fortune and their grandkids fortune can change at the drop of a hat, all because one was a miserable dishonest person.
The 77-year-old, whose presidency of France ran from 1995 until 2007, could face a ten-year prison sentence and 150,000-euro (£130,000) fine if found guilty. He will be the first modern French leader to face a corruption trial.
Mr Chirac faces charges of abuse of public funds while he was mayor of Paris. It is alleged that he paid 21 allies for doing non-existent jobs as part of his drive for power in the 1990s. Last month, the Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, agreed to drop the town hall's civil lawsuit against Mr Chirac in exchange for 2.2 million euros – the amount of taxpayer's money it claimed was misused. ........
via: Matt Drudge
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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