Sharon Returns Home to New Scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Sharon Returns Home to New Scandal


By JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press Writer

September 20, 2005, 8:34 AM EDT

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is trying to beat back a hard-line revolt in his Likud Party, faced a new challenge Tuesday after an Israeli TV station raised allegations that he violated campaign financing laws.

The report said that during his recent trip to New York, Sharon attended a dinner whose guests were asked to contribute $10,000 per couple to Sharon's re-election campaign, possibly exceeding the Israeli limit of $7,800 per donor.

Israel's attorney general is "dealing with" a flood of complaints about the alleged violations but hasn't decided whether to open a formal investigation, said Justice Ministry spokesman Jacob Galanti.

Sharon's allies denied he broke campaign laws, but the allegations could further weaken him ahead of next week's crucial vote in Likud on whether to move up a date for primaries. Likud's decision could determine whether Sharon stays in the party, or quits and forms his own party ahead of general elections.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-israel-palestinians,0,3551016.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[ShockediSay]

1. "Follw the money" n/t

[Burried News]

2. Why would a man of Sharon's notoriety need money to get

re-elected? To get his message out?

[peacetalksforall]

3. It's very simple and the answer applies to the U.S. as well. They

go beyond what they need as far as the beyond so that they have the funds to run their secred sub-governments. (Like - Iran-Contra - a payoff to Iran for release of the prisoners paid for by running guns and supposedly drugs.)