"Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, accepted a plea bargain on Wednesday morning and will pay about $15,000 in fines and restitution to settle accusations that she misused about $100,000 in public funds in managing the couple’s official residence.
Prosecutors said that Ms. Netanyahu, whom they charged with fraud, had concealed that a cook was on the payroll so that she could order hundreds of catered meals from expensive restaurants and charge them to the state.
Under the deal with the State Attorney’s Office the amount of public money at issue was halved to about $50,000, and Ms. Netanyahu agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of trickery, specifically that she deliberately exploited another person’s mistake. She is due to pay about $2,800 in fines and $12,500 in restitution.
Ms. Netanyahu, 60, was indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust a year ago in the case, which covered the years 2010 to 2013. Prosecutors accused her of “exploiting her status as the wife of the prime minister” and colluding with a top aide in a “planned, ongoing and systematic” scheme to break government rules and conceal it from state accountants." NY Times
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Sara, Sara,,, What a naughty girl you have been. You had the government chef at the PM's residence order out for you and then the two of you reimbursed the operation from government funds?
And people, cruel, probably Anti-Semitic people, say that you are abusive to residence staff and repair crews. Ah, but they are Jews . Alas, more self-haters.
"They have no right to say we should live like bourgeois" She was speaking of the public in Izghael. It will be interesting to see if her hubby is re-elected. pl
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/world/middleeast/israel-sara-netanyahu.html
Ho hum, narcissistic personality disorder.
The short version is Sara is a Bi**h. I have attended several receptions in Israel that Sara was sponsoring. She is extremely demeaning to staff and so pompous to the point of it being hard not to vomit. I can remember one situation where she ordered a staff member to get her some wine and when it was delivered Sara turned quickly to the left to say something and some wine slopped over on to her hand. She let go with an extremely ugly and loud diatribe at the woman who delivered the wine blaming her when it was clearly Sara’s fault. She must of mentioned that she was the Prime Minister’s wife and his right hand political consultant at least 25 times in a 2 hour period.
Another time a waiter was bring around a tray of drinks, Sara demanded that he leave the other side of the room and serve her first. In case you are wondering, I cannot stand either Sara or Bibi.
It must be hard being a “statesman”‘s wife.
It must be hard to be a “statesman” and subsist on a politicians income.
Absurd that someone so critically important to the world would have to make do with a millionaire’s lifestyle when by rights they should, at a minimum, have a billionaires lifestyle.
How is Sheldon more deserving? What has he done for Greater Israel in comparison?
I can see how galling this must be for them.
Sara convicted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-16/sara-netanyahu-israel-first-lady-convicted-misusing-state-funds/11215048
Colonel,
Looks like the plea deal is a closed case. She’ll have to pay $15,277 in the deal reached between her lawyers and the prosecutor.