A French court on Monday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence.
President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about an ongoing investigation into his campaign finances.
The judge said Sarkozy did not need to serve time in jail. He could serve the sentence by wearing an electronic bracelet at home.
The 66-year-old is the first president to have been sentenced to jail in France’s modern history.
(AP)
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Only a prelude to where cuomo, obama. hillary, biden are heading to.
Netanyahu shall escape this fate, because he shall be involved in nominating next president of Israel this summer, nominating someone he believes shall then go onto pardon him, unlike Rivlin, whose term is up this summer, did not pardon Netanyahu.
You left out someone in your list of people for whom the sentencing of Sarkozy is a prelude. I just cannot think of who it could be. Hmmmm ….
Sarkozy did not hide his Jewish heritage. I’m waiting for all the commenters to start screaming antisemitism now.