But, but, but… nothing is happening…
PARIS (Reuters) – Judges found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in jail, with two years suspended.
Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012, had denied any wrongdoing, saying he was the victim of a witch-hunt by financial prosecutors who used excessive means to snoop on his affairs.
Retired from politics but still influential among conservatives, Sarkozy has 10 days to appeal the ruling.
He is the second former president in modern France, after the late Jacques Chirac, to be convicted of corruption.
Prosecutors persuaded the judges that Sarkozy had offered to secure a plum job in Monaco for judge Gilbert Azibert in return for confidential information about an inquiry into allegations that he had accepted illegal payments from L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign.
This came to light, they said, while they were wiretapping conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog after Sarkozy left office, in relation to another investigation into alleged Libyan financing of the same campaign.
Sarko, wasn’t he the Yom Kippur Catholic?
With a very beautiful wife. A fellow needs plenty o’ shekels to afford a high maintenance babe like Carla Bruni.
This little dweeb prodded Obama to bomb Libya. He was the impetus to replace Gaddafi with ISIS, and the extra arms we’d supplied to Libyan “moderate rebels” (ISIS) got shipped in Operation Zero Footprint to the Syrian Sunni “moderate rebels” (ISIS). Sarkozy lit the fire that became the refugee crisis. He’s even more responsible than Frau Merkel – the Woman Who Destroyed A Continent.
True enough but the psychopath called hillary had a big hand in it-doubt obummer would have had the stones to do it without the prodding from serious psychopaths surrounding him: rice, power, clinton.
Harbinger of a thing to come?
Inshallah.
I can think of a halfrican who was as corrupt as they come.
He’s only been convicted of a lesser holding charge. He still hasn’t been tried for the Libya bribery case.
He isn’t going to prison. He’s only under house arrest for a year.
I guess the amount of the bribe was insufficient.
Maybe the judge had already received a better offer?
Poor ol’ Nick. Narc’ed out by a judge who probably took the bribe and skated away clean. French politics gives me a headache when I read about it. I’ve got to go lie down now.