nypost.com — Israel's prime minister scammed his country's revered Holocaust memorial, a charity for disabled children and other groups out of $100,000 in a brazen double-billing scheme, investigators said yesterday.They said Ehud Olmert personally ran the fraud and used the money to finance lavish family trips abroad.
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They said Olmert often spoke abroad on behalf of groups like the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, a charity for mentally disabled children, and a support group for Israeli Defense Force soldiers. But he would have Rishon Tours send the same bill for his trips to each of the groups, as if they were the only one paying. A senior police officer with the national fraud unit said Rishon Tours "acted like a bank branch for the Olmert family." Police raided the Rishon Tours offices recently and seized documents. They said Ehud Olmert personally ran the fraud and used the money to finance lavish family trips abroad.
barandon0d9Jul 14, 2008
Its true, the Hollowcast never happened, as far as I know.
elchelikesaudiJul 14, 2008
Wow that low man I can't believe it, now I know why my friend wanted to leave.
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i google Haim Ramon and get nothing?...
gerbil20Jul 14, 2008
What's Ramon has to do with it?Olmert's socialist-leftie government is rotten to the core and the sooner they are all relocated to the jail the better.
tangaroaJul 15, 2008
The Vice Prime Minister. I don't know exactly how the line of succession works in Israel, but it stands to reason that he is high on the list of replacements if Olmert resigns. He also recommended expelling the entire town that the bulldozer terrorist came from. The last thing Israel needs is a hothead as Prime Minister.From WaPo:"On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon suggested rerouting the barrier between Israel and much of the West Bank so that it would exclude numerous Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem -- including Edwyat's Sur Baher -- and lock many more Palestinians out of Israel." <a class="user" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303576.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...</a>