Sarkozy summoned to answer for Gaddafi cash
The New York Times reports that Nicolas Sarkozy, former French president, has turned himself into police custody over questions about his funding sources for his campaign in 2007. One of the charges is that he received money from the late Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya;
The suspicions behind this case first emerged in 2012, when the investigative news website Mediapart published a report suggesting that Mr. Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign had received up to 50 million euros, or nearly $62 million at current exchange rates, from the regime of Colonel Qaddafi, the longtime Libyan strongman who was killed in 2011. Such support would have violated France’s strict campaign finance laws, which cap spending and prohibit foreign funding.
Since those first reports, aides to Mr. Sarkozy and middlemen who knew him and who acted as political and financial intermediaries between France and Libya have come under close scrutiny by the police and the news media.
In 2015, Claude Guéant, a top aide and former interior minister to Mr. Sarkozy, was charged in connection with the investigation.
Ziad Takieddine, the French-Lebanese arms dealer who had introduced Mr. Sarkozy to Colonel Qaddafi, told Mediapart in 2016 that he had personally delivered suitcases with €5 million in cash to Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Guéant shortly before the 2007 election. Both politicians denied the account by Mr. Takieddine, who has also been charged in the investigation.
In January, Alexandre Djouhri, a French businessman who is close to Mr. Sarkozy and who also acted as a financial intermediary with Libya, was arrested in London in connection with the investigation. The French authorities are seeking his extradition.
I suppose that Sarkozy’s eagerness to bomb Qaddafi’s government troops during the civil war there was to cover up his funding. If Qaddafi did send him cash, I’m sure the colonel felt cheated, you know, right before he felt the K-Bar in his ass cheek.
I guess that it shouldn’t be a surprise that Sarkozy expressed support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US Presidential campaign, according to LePointe; Si j’étais citoyen américain, je voterais pour Hillary.
Category: Who knows
“If I were an American citizen, I would vote for Hillary.”
Not being a citizen didn’t stop lots of folks from voting for Felonia McPantsuit.
Fuck that appease. Remember when France left A’Stan? How’d that work out?
*Appeaser
With a French accent, you were right the first time.
Sad thing is, its the leadership and not the soldier’s who are the problem.
I worked with one of their GIGN folks in Iraq. Top notch badass blood drinking baby making killing machines.
They did not fuck around.
SSG, in one sentence you have described the history of France since 1900.
I second your opinions on the French warfighters in AStan.
And a lot of they paid the ultimate price doing the deed there like the professionals that they are. Never forget Loic Le Page, who earned an American BS+V for assaulting an enemy MG and saved a lot of American lives in doing so. He paid the ultimate price protecting his American brothers-in-arms.
http://a.c.o.ma.r.free.fr/memo_lepage_loic.htm
Skuzzy is, like all politicians, a mealy-mouthed whore who will do and say contrary things if it will curry votes. As Groucho said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, well, I have others.”
Maybe he can meet with Wide Load for a conjugal visit.
Conjugal visit with wideload? She would have to go outside her species to find a willing partner.
I thought she did. Slick Willie would hit things that would turn IDC SARC’s stomach.
Does Huma count?
Does Huma count? You bet! Huma’s count was one of Wide Load’s favorites.
Things are getting stranger and stranger.
`Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’
I lost my borogove. Have you seen it anywhere, GB?
Hitlary would have been our president if not for the evil despicables forcing the women in their families to vote for Darth Trump.
Deplorables, Yef. Say it with me now…
Cinnaminions. I want them.
She would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those meddling Russians.
(A tip of the Kevlar to the writers at Scooby Doo)
Why don’t you come play with my dingalingaling!
The really disgusting thing is that el-Qaddafi and his intel guys were really helping is with collection and targeting vs the bad guys and Killary pushed going after him anyways.
el-Qaddafi basically bought into the deal offered to him by the US and we stabbed him in the back, thanks to Killary.
‘el-Qaddafi and his intel guys were really helping is’ = ‘el-Qaddafi and his intel guys were really helping US (as in the USA’