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...Ehud Olmert for alleged fraud and bribery. The police decision caps months of political turmoil and drama that have marred Olmert's tenure as prime minister, stalling peace talks with the Palestinians and, more recently, the Syrians. The police will now pass on their recommendation to the country's attorney general who will decide whether to prosecute Israel's beleaguered and unpopular leader...
...expected that the attorney general will decide on the police recommendations within the next few weeks. In the past, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has sometimes ignored the police's advice, but he is unlikely to do so in such a controversial case, in which the evidence of Olmert's alleged fraud and bribe-taking spooled out on nightly TV news like a tawdry soap opera...
...prime minister's lawyers described the police decision as "meaningless." A statement by Olmert's attorneys said: "We will wait patiently for the decision of the attorney general. Unlike the police, he is aware of the heavy responsibility he holds...
...Antonini's luggage was opened in 2007 - and until Colombian authorities claimed last spring that seized guerrilla laptops revealed Chavez payments of as much as $300 million to the FARC - that alleged evidence of Caracas' covert dealings had ever surfaced. The top prosecutor on the Antonini case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill, has said in hearings that conversations recorded by an FBI wire that Antonini wore prove the suitcase money "was meant for the campaign of Cristina [Fernandez]." And according to court documents filed this summer, Kauffman is expected to testify they were told by high-level Venezuelan officials that...
...affairs, has insisted the indictments stem purely from "a judicial process" and not politics. Venezuela and defense lawyers claim otherwise. Chavez, who accuses the White House of backing a failed 2002 coup against him, calls the case "part of the U.S. empire's plan" to smear him. Duran's attorney, Edward Shohat, argues that the statute at play - acting, or conspiring to act, as a foreign agent without permission - has been used only when espionage or a threat to U.S. security was involved. "The U.S. has no security interest in this matter," he says. "This case is political...