Naziyahu wife convicted of misusing public funds
NOVANEWS
An Israeli court has convicted Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of misusing public funds through lying to use regime's funds for meals at her private residence.
On Sunday, judge Avital Chen at the magistrate’s court in Jerusalem al-Quds and Sara Netanyahu reached an agreement on a plea bargain in which she admitted to the lesser offence of exploiting another person’s mistake and the court dropped the original fraud charge over her illegal ordering of catered meals to the prime minister’s residence some nine years ago.
Sara Netanyahu, 60, will have to pay 45,000 shekels (12,552 dollars) in reimbursement and pay a fine of 10,000 shekels. She will also have a criminal record.
She had been originally charged in June last year with agg...