8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (28)
#19047578 at 2023-06-21 21:04:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23390: Joseph Misfud - "He's the Guy That Started the WHOLE THING" Edition
Three Netanyahu Advisors Face Charges of Witness Tampering in Corruption Trial
The three advisers are accused of aggravated witness tampering in the so-called 'Case 4000', a crime which could potentially carry a five-year prison sentence
Three advisers working for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face criminal prosecution pending hearings for harassing the state's witness in one of the trials against Netanyahu, Israel's State Prosecutor announced on Wednesday.
The three advisers, Yonatan Urich, Ofer Golan and Israel Einhorn, are suspected of witness tampering in the so-called "Case 4000," which involves suspicions that Netanyahu, in his role as communications minister from 2014 to 2017 (while he was also prime minister), intervened with regulators to help Bezeq telecommunications company, which is controlled by Shaul Elovitch.
In exchange, Elovitch, a long-time friend of Netanyahu's, allegedly ordered Bezeq's Walla news site to provide favorable coverage of the prime minister and his wife Sara.
The three advisers are accused of aggravated witness tampering, a crime which could potentially carry a five-year prison sentence. The State Prosecutor alleges that the three advisers placed a car near the home of state witness Shlomo Filber, who formally served as director general of the communications ministry.
In the car, the advisers allegedly placed a loudspeaker system and played a recorded message calling on Filber to recant his agreement to become a state's witness.
The incident occurred in late August 2019, and an investigation into the matter began roughly one month later. However, the investigation was stopped after claims were made regarding digital searches that were executed without warrants.
The Supreme Court allowed the investigation to continue despite the fact that it began without a warrant from the court.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-06-21/ty-article/.premium/three-netanyahu-advisors-face-charges-of-witness-tampering-in-corruption-trial/00000188-de9d-df52-a79d-debf02de0000
#15578287 at 2022-02-08 18:29:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19699: [#FreeTheSmiles] Edition
Court accepts prosecution request for delay in Netanyahu trial amid wiretap claims
Deferment granted until Sunday to allow completion of examination of allegations that police illicitly spied on witnesses, defendants
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday accepted the prosecution's request to cancel a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, in order to provide more time for state attorneys to probe whether police illicitly tapped the phones of key witnesses.
It was the second hearing that the court agreed to cancel this week, after canceling Tuesday's, as fallout from the police spyware scandal continues to snowball.
The prosecution told the court on Tuesday that its investigation into the alleged hacking of the phone of Shlomo Filber, a former Communications Ministry director general and a key state witness in the most serious case against Netanyahu, was still ongoing.
The court acceded to the prosecution's request, giving it until Sunday at 2 p.m. to present its findings on Filber and any other instances of alleged spyware abuse. According to Haaretz, initial findings have not indicated that police violated a court-approved warrant in their tapping of Filber's phone.
The prosecution is seeking to show that law enforcement did not breach any laws in its treatment of Filber, and hopes to stymie a petition filed by Netanyahu's attorneys on Monday calling for a pause in the trial.
The defense petition is based on an explosive report that alleged that the Israel Police used the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phones of a wide range of public figures - including associates and family members of Netanyahu as well as multiple people currently involved in the trial - without judicial oversight or approval.
According to the report, which was unsourced, police hacked the phones of former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua; former Communications Ministry directors general Filber and Avi Berger; Iris Elovitch, the wife of Shaul Elovitch, the former controlling shareholder of Bezeq, both of whom are defendants in the Netanyahu trial; former Bezeq CEOs Dudu Mizrachi and Stella Hendler; former Walla editor-in-chief Aviram Elad and other journalists at Walla, and others.
The abuse of the spyware reportedly extended far beyond people involved in the Netanyahu investigation and trial, with those illicitly targeted also said to include activists and demonstrators (including anti-Netanyahu protesters), mayors, ministry directors general, journalists and others.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecution-in-netanyahu-trial-requests-more-time-to-respond-to-wiretap-claims/
#15530665 at 2022-02-02 23:05:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19640: The Storm is Upon Us Edition
Police hacked phone of key individual in Netanyahu cases without approval - report
Data reportedly uncovered by investigators during inquiry into NSO affair, said to include photos, texts, phone numbers and more
Police hacked into the phone of a key person involved in the criminal cases against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and extracted a large amount of data, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.
According to Channel 12, the person may have been Shlomo Filber, a former director-general of the Communications Ministry and longtime confidant of Netanyahu who is a state's witness in Case 4000.
In the case, the most severe of the three cases against him, Netanyahu is suspected of advanced regulatory decisions as communications minister and prime minister that benefited Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq, the country's largest telecommunications firm, despite opposition from the Communication Ministry's career officials. Police suspect that in exchange he received positive coverage from Elovitch's Walla news site.
Channel 12 aired patchy voice recordings in which police investigators seem to be discussing hacking a person's phone, just before conducting an interview with Filber.
The reports come as police reel from accusations that they have repeatedly used hacking software from the NSO Group and others to break into citizens' phones illegally.
The report did not say whether NSO's Pegasus program was allegedly used in this case.
Channel 13 reported that the revelation was made as part of an ongoing Justice Ministry inquiry into the NSO affair.
The data retrieved included photos, texts, phone numbers and more, and was taken without a court order, the report alleged.
The network said police have told justice officials that the matter is being looked into, but that the material remained in the tech unit and was not handed over to investigators in the case or to prosecutors.
Channel 13 noted that the discovery could cause serious delays in Netanyahu's trial, as the opposition leader's lawyers may demand to review the new revelations and take action over them.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-hacked-phone-of-key-individual-in-netanyahu-cases-without-approval-report/
#15432795 at 2022-01-22 01:17:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19520: Declass... Declass? Is There A DECLASS in Motion Edition
AG said to have agreed deal for Netanyahu to quit politics for just 2 years, reneged
Reports say Mandelblit backed away from offer amid scathing criticism from state prosecution colleagues, is now demanding 'moral turpitude' clause which spells 7-year ban for ex-PM
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit initially offered former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a far more lenient plea deal in his corruption trial than the one currently being discussed, but backed away due to a flood of pressure from key figures in the prosecution, Channel 12 reported Friday.
According to the report, Netanyahu, 72, the current opposition leader, would only have had to commit to stepping away from public life for two years, with the charges also being significantly lowered in two of the cases against him and dismissed in the third.
Since reports of the negotiations emerged last week, they have generally said that Mandelblit has been demanding that any plea deal with Netanyahu include a clause of "moral turpitude" - which would bar the former prime minister from public office for seven years.
This requirement was underlined on Thursday by Deputy State Attorney Shlomo Lamberger, who made the first public remarks by a senior justice official on the offer, telling a conference held by the Israel Bar Association that it would be "inconceivable" for a plea deal not to include the clause.
"Anyone who understands moral turpitude understands that with such acts it is inconceivable there isn't moral turpitude," Lamberger said.
Netanyahu is on trial in three separate graft cases: for fraud and breach of trust in Case 1000 and in Case 2000, and for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000. Under the reported potential deal, the bribery charge in Case 4000 would be dropped, and Case 2000 would be closed altogether.
The reports have listed Mandelblit's current conditions for an agreement as follows: Netanyahu admits to fraud and breach of trust in cases 1000 and 4000; he accepts the designation of moral turpitude; he will be sentenced to seven to nine months of community service; and he admits to having instructed former Communications Ministry director Shlomo Filber to provide benefits to the controlling shareholder of the Bezeq media company, Shaul Elovitch - the main accusation against the former premier in case 4000.
However, the Channel 12 report Friday said that Mandelblit had previously agreed to Netanyahu stepping away from public office for just two years. It also said that the proposed agreement could have had included a suspended jail sentence, as opposed to the community service and suspended sentence currently on offer.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-said-to-have-agreed-deal-for-netanyahu-to-leave-politics-for-2-years-but-reneged/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-said-to-have-agreed-deal-for-netanyahu-to-leave-politics-for-2-years-but-reneged/
#15235001 at 2021-12-22 03:44:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19272: Let the Bake Offs Commence Edition
Ex-Netanyahu aide says at trial: 'He shredded everything, even grocery lists'
Key witness for prosecution Nir Hefetz in graft case says he and associates used to delete electronic messages for fear of recriminations
A key witness for the prosecution in Benjamin Netanyahu's trial testified Tuesday that the former prime minister used to shred all of his documents, down to his daily reminders.
"Netanyahu shredded everything, even grocery lists," said Nir Hefetz in response to a lawyer's question about Netanyahu shredding documents.
Hefetz once served as a senior adviser and family spokesperson to Netanyahu before turning state witness against him.
Hefetz is the state's star witness in Case 4000, the most serious of the three cases in which Netanyahu is facing charges. The ex-premier is alleged to have worked to illicitly and lucratively benefit the business interests of controlling shareholder of the Bezeq media company Shaul Elovitch in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news site owned by Elovitch.
Hefetz, who was on his ninth day of testimony in the ongoing corruption trial against Netanyahu, said he regularly instructed figures close to the former prime minister to delete texts and other electronic messages.
He said he also regularly deleted correspondence with Netanyahu himself.
Lawyer Jack Chen presented Hefetz with a message from 2016 in which Hefetz wrote to former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua that said, "Delete all of our correspondence."
Hefetz said that Elovitch "raised the subject that we need to switch phones," and that Elovitch had told him that "deleting messages is not effective because it's possible to restore them."
Hefetz has provided prosecutors with key information as an interlocutor between Netanyahu and Elovitch. Hefetz was often the one communicating the premier's wishes to Walla management and has testified on the nature of this relationship.
Hefetz left a long career in journalism in 2009 to work as a spokesman for Netanyahu's government, and in 2014 became the Netanyahu family's spokesman and adviser.
In 2018, after he was arrested as a possible accomplice in connection with one of Netanyahu's corruption cases, Hefetz signed a state witness deal and provided investigators with recordings of conversations with Netanyahu and his family.
Earlier this month, Hefetz said that he left his position in 2017 because he feared the then-prime minister was no longer fit to serve. Hefetz alleged that there was a top-secret security incident during his tenure that endangered thousands.
Hefetz also said he had warned Netanyahu about what later became Case 2000, in which the former premier is accused of attempting to reach a quid pro quo with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes for positive media coverage in exchange for legislation weakening rival newspaper Israel Hayom.
Hefetz's testimony has mostly pertained to Case 4000, but some of it has related to Case 2000.
In the third case against Netanyahu, Case 1000, he is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gifts from two billionaires - Hollywood-based Israeli movie mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian magnate James Packer.
Netanyahu denies all allegations against him, and says the charges were fabricated by a biased police force and state prosecution service, overseen by a weak attorney general, in league with political opponents and the media.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-netanyahu-aide-says-at-trial-he-shredded-everything-even-grocery-lists/
#15114822 at 2021-12-01 18:19:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19121: All Eyes On Ghislaine Trial II Edition
Netanyahu trial witness says interrogators threatened to destroy his family
During cross-examination, Nir Hefetz describes the 'vile' conditions of his detention that caused him to break after 11 days and turn state witness against his former boss
A key witness for the prosecution in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial testified Wednesday that police interrogators threatened to destroy his relationships with his family members if he did not turn on his ex-boss.
"The threat was clear. If I did not give a version [they were looking for], they would destroy my family. This was said dozens of times," former Netanyahu family spokesman and confidant Nir Hefetz said during his cross-examination, as the former premier's defense team continued in their efforts to undermine the witness's testimony, arguing that statements made under duress should not be held up under the law.
Hefetz also said Wednesday that his access to food and medical care was extremely limited while he was in police custody, and that at one point he had even feared for his life.
Nonetheless, Hefetz said Monday that despite the heavy pressure, his testimony is "unequivocally the truth."
Judges on Tuesday rejected Hefetz's request to hold in private parts of the cross-examination discussing a police maneuver during his interrogation that played a part in him agreeing to become a state witness.
Most details of the maneuver are under a gag order to protect Hefetz's privacy, although the media has reported that it involved Hefetz's wife being called to the police station, as well as another woman.
Hefetz has provided prosecutors with key information as an interlocutor between Netanyahu and Bezeq's controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch, as the prime minister sought to positively influence coverage of his affairs through the Elovitch-owned Walla news site. Hefetz was often the one communicating the premier's wishes to Walla management and has testified on the nature of this relationship.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-trial-witness-says-interrogators-threatened-to-destroy-his-family/
#14983744 at 2021-11-12 18:28:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18956: THE FIRE RISES WHITE HOT Edition
Ex-Netanyahu aide said set to testify to family's involvement in media matters
Some details from Nir Hefetz's prep-meeting with prosecution leaked to press, revealing state's witness's claims against the former PM, his wife and son
When he takes the stand next Tuesday, a key witness in the criminal trial of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will testify to the deep involvement the ex-premier's wife and son had in the country's media landscape while he was in office, according to a report Friday.
Nir Hefetz, a former Netanyahu aide and confidant turned state's witness, will provide testimony in Case 4000 - one of three against the former premier. In it, Netanyahu is charged with illicitly and lucratively benefiting the business interests of Bezeq's controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for positive coverage on the Elovitch-owned Walla news website. He is accused of abusing his powers when he served as both prime minister and communications minister from 2014 to 2017.
Hefetz sat down with state prosecutors to prepare for his testimony and some details from the recent meeting were leaked to Channel 13.
The former Netanyahu aide will testify that the former premier's wife Sara was involved in the hiring of spokespeople in the Prime Minister's Office, according to the transcripts.
Hefetz will also highlight the family's "obsession" with the media, particularly the Walla news site at the center of Case 4000. Spokespeople were made aware that part of their job was to "correct the historical injustice done to Sara Netanyahu as a result of her husband's public role," Hefetz told prosecutors.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-netanyahu-aide-said-set-to-testify-to-familys-involvement-in-media-matters/
#14579065 at 2021-09-14 17:15:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18442: Audit the Recall Edition
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Netanyahu is on trial for three corruption cases known as Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000. In Case 4000, the most serious of the three, Netanyahu is alleged to have abused his powers when he served as both premier and communications minister from 2014 to 2017.
Haim Geron stands next to a light plane. (Facebook)
Haim Geron, a witness in the corruption trial of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was one of the two Israelis killed in a light plane crash in Greece on Monday. The other was his wife, Esti.
The names of the Gerons, the only two casualties of the crash, were cleared for publication on Tuesday.
Geron was a past deputy director-general for engineering and licensing at the Communications Ministry.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the couple took off from Haifa on a single-engine plane in the afternoon and were flying close to the island of Samos, near Turkey, when their light aircraft went down Monday evening.
Their bodies were recovered by the Greek coastguard several hours later with the help of divers.
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The ministry said consular officials at the embassy in Athens were in touch with the family and that it was helping to bring them to Israel for burial.
Officials said Tuesday that Greece's Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Board was investigating the causes of the crash.
"Shortly before landing, communication with the control tower on Samos was lost and the Civil Aviation Authority informed the search and rescue center about the loss of communication," the authority said in a statement.
Greek media have said the Cessna 172 plane appeared to have suffered a technical problem and disappeared from radar, but the cause of the crash remains unclear.
Netanyahu is on trial for three corruption cases known as Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000. In Case 4000, the most serious of the three, Netanyahu is alleged to have abused his powers when he served as both premier and communications minister from 2014 to 2017.
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen as he arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
Netanyahu is accused of using his position in order to illicitly and very lucratively benefit the business interests of Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of the telecom company Bezeq. In exchange, Elovitch allegedly provided Netanyahu and his family with positive coverage on the Elovitch-owned Walla news website, including allowing the then-prime minister's associates and family members to dictate editorial content and policy on a regular basis.
In May 2020, Geron, an attorney by training, spoke with Radio 103FM about the testimony he had given in the Netanyahu trial and said it related to the development of the country's optical fiber infrastructure, the communications industry, and telephone services. Probed as to whether he had ever witnessed any criminal activity at the ministry, Geron respond that "the court is the only one that can determine if something is criminal or not."
He stressed that he was not questioned about the Bezeq-Yes deal, which is a key element of the trial. That deal, which went ahead in 2015, was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Elovitch, according to the state prosecution, and Netanyahu's alleged intervention to approve it as communications minister was part of his illicit quid pro quid arrangement with Elovitch, according to the charges.
The Netanyahu trial resumed on Monday with the continued cross-examination of key state witness former Walla website CEO Ilan Yeshua.
Case 1000 involves allegations that Netanyahu receiving illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors. Case 2000 involves a separate alleged quid pro quo deal with the publisher of the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, Arnon Mozes, for positive media coverage in exchange for legislation weakening a rival newspaper.
#13379065 at 2021-04-07 19:11:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16948: #SecuretheBorder #SaveTheChildren #StopHumanTrafficking Edition
Ex-news site CEO: I was told to ax Sara Netanyahu item or I'd sink business deal
Wrapping up 1st week of testimony in PM's trial, Ilan Yeshua says Walla owner Elovitch angrily warned him bad press for PM's wife would wreck his bid to buy TV provider's shares
The first week of witness testimony in Benjamin Netanyahu's trial wrapped up Wednesday, with former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua telling the court he was forced to take down a story from the news outlet about the prime minister's wife, Sara, because it could have harmed his employer's chances at receiving a regulatory favor from the premier.
Yeshua is a key witness in Case 4000, where the prime minister is accused of establishing an illegal quid pro quo with the owners of the Walla news website in which they gave him favorable coverage and he granted them regulatory favors.
The prosecution showed text messages sent to Yeshua from Shaul Elovitch, who controlled Walla through his telecommunications firm Bezeq, in which he was told, "Take [the article] down now. It'll prevent me from getting permission for Yes. I'll kill you."
Yeshua explained that Elovitch was referring to a regulatory decision that he was waiting for from Netanyahu that would allow his company to purchase shares in the Yes television service provider. "At least that's what I understood," he added.
The Bezeq-Yes deal, which went ahead in 2015, was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Elovitch, according to the state prosecution, and Netanyahu's alleged intervention to approve it as communications minister was part of his illicit quid pro quid arrangement with Elovitch, according to the charges, under which Walla's content was skewed to the prime minister's requirements and he advanced Elovitch's business interests.
The article Yeshua was ordered to take down was about a scandal at the time involving Sara Netanyahu and her treatment of a caretaker in the Prime Minister's Residence.
Prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh asked how Yeshua understood Elovitch's message, "I'll kill you."
"[It showed] the pressure he was under from the prime minister because of the article about Sara," Yeshua said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-news-site-ceo-i-was-told-to-ax-sara-netanyahu-item-or-id-hurt-business-deal/
#13374408 at 2021-04-07 00:35:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General ebake # 16943
Netanyahu trial: Witness was asked to destroy all text messages on scheme
Witness: Accused 'insisted that he destroy all text messages relating to the media scheme.'
During the second day of the corruption trial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua told the court about a dramatic meeting in December 2016 when Shaul and Iris Elovitch called him to their house on an emergency basis.
The Elovitches took his cellphone and their cellphones and left them outside the house, he said.
Next, the Elovitches told him they must coordinate their stories about the interference with Walla's coverage, he added.
Shaul Elovitch said they, Yeshua and Netanyahu would claim it was done to keep Walla from being too far-left politically and due to the close friendship between Netanyahu and Elovitch, Yeshua said.
Further, Elovitch insisted that he destroy all text messages relating to the media scheme, he said.
Yeshua said he refused, adding that he would delete the messages later after he had saved some personal messages.
In addition, Elovitch told Yeshua he should destroy his cellphone, he said.
Yeshua said he was in such shock from the potential of criminal liability for himself, the Elovitches and Netanyahu that when he got home, he could not get out of his car for 10 minutes.
The former Walla CEO said he never destroyed the text messages.
In fact, the next morning, he met with multiple lawyers who recorded everything that had happened and placed their written account in a safe, he told the court.
Next, Yeshua said he came to Walla's office and called a special emergency meeting with Walla chief executive editor Aviram Elad and news director Michael Kline.
Both are due to testify after Yeshua testifies and is cross-examined, probably around the end of the summer or early fall.
He said he told them to cease any special favoritism for Netanyahu.
The two were skeptical that Yeshua would stick to such an independent line after four years of tilted coverage for Netanyahu and promises that things would "return to normal soon," he said, adding that he convinced them that this time he was serious.
Throughout the day, Yeshua testified that Netanyahu's top aide, Nir Hefetz, repeatedly called him and texted him, but Yeshua went out of his way to ignore and avoid him.
Further, in multiple later meetings, Elovitch asked him if he had deleted the text messages that could be used as proof of the media scheme, Yeshua told the court.
He said he lied to Elovitch and told him he had deleted them to get him off his back.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/netanyahu-trial-witness-was-asked-to-destroy-all-text-messages-on-scheme-664279
#12860878 at 2021-02-08 17:23:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16417: The Biden Administration Is A Meme Edition
Amid protests & ahead of upcoming election, Israeli PM Netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption charges
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust on Monday. His trial resumed six weeks before the country is due to hold a parliamentary election.
During his second appearance in court since May, and just over a month before the 2021 Israeli legislative election, Netanyahu confirmed his written plea of 'not guilty' for charges that include passing regulatory favors for a company in exchange for positive news coverage.
Last year, Netanyahu claimed that the purpose of the corruption trial was to "depose a strong, right-wing prime minister, and thus remove the nationalist camp from the leadership of the country for many years," though many Israelis argue that the leader is no longer fit for office.
Protesters flocked to Netanyahu's official residence on Saturday to protest the prime minister, calling for him to resign over the corruption charges and his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Similar rallies have been held in Israel for months now. Netanyahu has called the protesters "anarchists," and his son Yair mocked them as "aliens" back in August.
Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust for allegedly receiving frequent gifts, including expensive champagne and cigars, from billionaire Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer - who previously had business and personal connections to the Church of Scientology. Despite accepting the gifts, Netanyahu is alleged to have "acted for the benefit of Mr. Milchan as part of his official roles" for several years.
The Israeli PM is also charged with fraud and breach of trust for a series of meetings he had with newspaper publisher Arnon Mozes, during which he allegedly spoke about interfering against Mozes' media rivals in exchange for positive news coverage; and is charged with fraud, bribery, and breach of trust for allegedly using his position to help businessman Shaul Elovitch - also in exchange for positive news coverage.
https://www.rt.com/news/514899-netanyahu-pleads-not-guilty/
#12312610 at 2021-01-04 19:23:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15717: We Will Have Our Day In Congress Edition
Israeli Prosecutors Amend Charges Against Netanyahu
Prosecutors in Jerusalem on Sunday amended charges against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, revealing more details about one of the corruption cases against the controversial politician.
Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faces amended accusations. (Photo: U.S. Department of State)In what is known as Case 4000, prosecutors of the Jerusalem District Court accused Netanyahu of assisting businessman Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in telecom giant Bezeq, with US$280 million and listed more than 300 incidents in which the Prime Minister had allegedly pushed for regulatory decisions in favor of the media mogul in exchange for positive coverage by one of Elovitch's news websites called Walla.
Responding to Netanyahu's lawyers, who asked for more details, prosecutors said that there had been 315 cases in which Walla was allegedly asked to be gentle to Netanyahu and his family in its reports.
The Prime Minister, according to the prosecutors, was allegedly personally involved in about 150 of those urgings.
In some cases Netanyahu asked the news outlet to positively promote his wife Sara and hide her and family's spendings and in other cases he asked for unfavorable reports to be made about families of his political rivals, according to prosecutors.
Netanyahu described the prosecution's allegations as propaganda, noting that they made the "Case 4000 balloon burst."
He wrote on his Facebook wall that it was obvious the prosecutors only wanted to "sew a case for a strong right-wing prime minister."
Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu in November 2019 with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The charges were based on police allegations that he granted state favors worth hundreds of millions of dollars to an Israeli media mogul in return for gifts and favorable coverage.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13576-israeli-prosecutors-amend-charges-against-netanyahu
#12147620 at 2020-12-23 18:30:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15510: One Man With Courage Makes A Majority Edition
Lead Netanyahu trial judge infected with coronavirus
It is unclear whether her condition will impact the January 13 hearing.
Jerusalem District Court Judge Rivkah Friedman-Feldman, the lead on the panel handling the public corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been infected with the coronavirus.
A statement from the court spokesperson's office said on Wednesday that she would need to quarantine at minimum until January 1.
The statement added that at the present time, Friedman-Feldman was having a light case in terms of symptoms.
In addition, the spokesperson said that an epidemiological probe was being performed, but it was unclear at press time whether her infection would impact other judges on the Netanyahu panel which had not held a public hearing since early December.
It was also unclear whether her condition would impact the January 13 hearing which is supposed to be the final pretrial date leading into calling witnesses set for February.
Earlier Wednesday, the state prosecution issued a range of indictments in the Bezeq case before the Tel Aviv District Court which is parallel to Case 4000 against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the Jerusalem District Court.
Wednesday's decision confirmed the September 2019 announcement by the Tel Aviv Economic Crimes Division that it intended to indict former Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch, his son Or and a range of other top Bezeq and YES company officials for a range of fraud, insider trading, illegal reporting and obstruction of justice issues.
In addition, the prosecution decided to indict Walla in Case 4000 and Yediot Ahronot in Case 2000.
Originally, the Bezeq case in Tel Aviv was a story about an illegal merger between Bezeq and YES, being that Shaul Elovitch had powerful interests in both and that he allegedly used illegal messengers to infiltrate the merger talks which he was supposed to be kept away from to avoid a conflict of interest.
The prosecution also indicted Amikam Shorer, YES CEO Ron Ayalon, Linor Yochelman, Miki Neuman and various sub-entities of Eurocom which were under Shaul Elovitch's control.
Yochelman was tasked with ensuring that Elovitch did not receive information relating to the merger talks and to make sure he could not influence them, due to his ownership interests in both companies.
Instead, Yochelman allegedly leaked just about everything that Elovitch needed to manipulate the outcome of the negotiations to his benefit.
Elovitch eventually benefited to the tune of around NIS 968 million.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/lead-netanyahu-trial-judge-infected-with-coronavirus-652984
#12023715 at 2020-12-14 18:40:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15349: Electoral College Edition
Court orders prosecutors to amend indictment against Netanyahu
Judges say 'quite a few details are missing' from charge sheet in 1 of 3 cases, but reject PM's request for indictment to be thrown out
The Jerusalem District Court on Monday rejected a demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorneys to cancel the criminal charges against him due to issues with the filing process, but ordered prosecutors to amend the indictment in one of three cases the premier was charged in.
The judges said "quite a few details are missing" from the indictment in Case 4000, which they said are "material and relevant to the defendants' defense."
The case involves suspicions that Netanyahu granted regulatory favors benefitting Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Bezeq telecoms, in exchange for positive coverage of the prime minister and his family from the Bezeq-owned Walla news site.
In their ruling, the judges instructed prosecutors to significantly amend the indictment to clearly distinguish Netanyahu from his family members, as well as Elovitch from his wife, Iris.
Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)
Netanyahu's lawyers have complained that the premier in many cases was grouped with his family in supposed demands from Elovitch to make various changes in Walla's coverage. They said it was not clear why Netanyahu must answer for demands allegedly made by his wife or son.
The court said prosecutors must make clear who made the demands in every case and whether the prime minister was allegedly aware of the requests or involved in them.
It also told prosecutors to provide detailed information about the alleged contacts between Netanyahu and the Elovitches and the benefits they gave him. The premier's lawyers had asserted that the information provided was not detailed enough.
"There is no place for generalizations or lack of details," the judges wrote.
In total, judges told prosecutors to amend 21 clauses in the indictment due to insufficient details.
They also rejected a demand by Netanyahu's lawyers to amend the charges in another affair, dubbed Case 1000.
Concerning Netanyahu's demand to throw out the indictment because it was allegedly filed in contravention of a law allowing Knesset members to request parliamentary immunity, the court said there were no grounds to cancel the charges since they were filed after the prime minister had withdrawn a request for the Knesset to grant him immunity.
Netanyahu cheered the ruling.
"A tough blow for the prosecutors," he said in a statement. "It's again been proved that they didn't search for a crime but rather invented a crime."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/court-orders-prosecutors-to-amend-indictment-against-netanyahu/
#11925680 at 2020-12-06 18:38:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15222: Who Told Those States to Stop Counting on Election Night? Edition
Netanyahu trial may face fresh delay as judges hint indictment must be revised
Court seems set to tell prosecutors to detail gifts allegedly given to PM, his specific requests for better news coverage; defense says investigators' actions 'extremely improper'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial resumed on Sunday, with his lawyers asking the Jerusalem District Court to dismiss the charges against him due to alleged impropriety by police investigators probing the premier, and the judges indicating they intended to order prosecutors to explain why some parts of the indictment were not sufficiently detailed.
Such a decision would likely require prosecutors to correct the indictment, resulting in another significant delay in the schedule of the trial. The start of the evidentiary stage has already been pushed off by a month.
Netanyahu's trial on charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes opened in May. Though the prime minister attended the first hearing, he was granted an exemption from appearing at later, largely procedural stages of the trial, including Sunday's hearing.
Sunday's hearing began with procedures relating to Case 4000 - the most serious of the three cases against Netanyahu and the only one carrying a bribery charge - in which the premier is accused of approving regulatory moves benefiting Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of the Bezeq telecommunications group, in return for positive news coverage from the Elovitch-owned Walla news site.
It also discussed Case 1000, in which Netanyahu is accused of accepting some $200,000 in gifts such as cigars and champagne from two billionaires - Hollywood-based Israeli movie mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian magnate James Packer.
Due to coronavirus limitations, only three attorneys per defendant were allowed in the courtroom Sunday. Journalists were kept out of the room but were given access to a media screening in an adjacent courtroom.
An expanded courtroom is reportedly being constructed to accommodate more people for the coming stages of the trial. The trial marks the first time a prime minister has been indicted while in office, and a large audience is expected when the evidentiary stage begins in February.
Netanyahu denies any wrongdoing and has railed against the courts, prosecution, and media for what he terms a "witch hunt."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-trial-may-face-further-delay-as-judges-hint-indictment-must-be-revised/
#9981836 at 2020-07-16 23:15:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12773: DS (You) Will Remember 8kun For Centuries Edition
Netanyahu trial's second hearing set for Sunday
Bribery case against sitting PM continues in shadow of coronavirus
Absent a last-minute coronavirus-related delay, on Sunday morning the country will once again witness a hearing against its sitting prime minister in the bribery case against Benjamin Netanyahu.
Just as the indictment against Netanyahu- represented by Amit Hadad and recently added Yossi Segev - was a major cause of the 18-month election deadlock, the trial will hover as a cloud over virtually all major government decisions for the foreseeable future.
Picking up from the opening hearing on May 24, this hearing is supposed to be decisive in setting the schedule for when the Jerusalem District Court will start hearing witnesses.
The trial schedule could have a huge impact on Netanyahu's transfer of power to Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz in November 2021, as well as what Netanyahu's status will be after that transfer.
The other defendants are Bezeq and Walla owner Shaul Elovitch and his wife, Iris, (represented by Jacques Chen), as well as Yediot Aharonot owner Arnon "Noni" Mozes (represented by Navit Negev.)
Netanyahu himself physically attended the May 24 hearing to respond to the indictment, but is not required to attend the hearing, which is more about scheduling and resolving legal disputes between the lawyers over evidence.
There is still a question mark about whether lawyer Boaz Ben Tzur will join Netanyahu's defense team, since he has been representing a key witness in Case 1000 for the prosecution until now.
The lead judge for the case - who will run Sunday's hearing - is Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman.
The remaining judges for the trial are Moshe Bar-Am and Oded Shaham.
Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben Ari, Tel Aviv Economic Crimes Division Deputy Chief Yonatan Tadmor and Securities Crimes Chief Yehudit Tirosh represent the prosecution, while at least one defense lawyer for each additional defendant besides Netanyahu will also be present.
Due to social distancing rules, there is limited space in the main courtroom, so there will be additional defense lawyers for the defendants, media and other related professionals involved in adjacent rooms with closed-circuit TV.
Netanyahu's legal team has not formally announced whether Hadad or Segev will take the lead at the hearing, but until now Hadad has been the junior lawyer on the team.
In May, Micha Fettman argued on Netanyahu's behalf.
However, Fettman, like a long list of prior Netanyahu lawyers, quit the team last week over conflicts regarding payment.
The payment controversy blew up after Netanyahu's request to receive NIS 10 million in donations from tycoon ally Spencer Partrich was rejected by the State Comptroller Committee in charge of vetting gifts to public servants.
Hadad has been with Netanyahu since the start of the case back when the lead lawyer was Hadad's then-boss, Jacob Weinroth, but many other lawyers have been on and off of the team since Weinroth died in 2018.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/netanyahu-trials-second-hearing-set-for-sunday-635354
#8114682 at 2020-02-12 18:26:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10387: The Evergreen . Non-standard Defintion Edition
Three-judge panel appointed to determine Netanyahu's fate
The Jerusalem District Court judges will be: Rivkah Friedman-Feldman, Moshe Bar-Am and Oded Shaham.
A three judge panel for the public corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set on Wednesday.
The Jerusalem District Court judges will be: Rivkah Friedman-Feldman, Moshe Bar-Am and Oded Shaham.
A decision on the panel had been stalled since the indictment against Netanyahu was filed on January 28. A trial date has still not been set.
Although there was initially greater potential for the trial to open before the March 2 elections, at this point the most likely scenario is a post-election opening for the trial.
Netanyahu officially became the first sitting prime minister in Israel's history to be indicted two weeks ago when Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit filed an indictment with the Jerusalem District Court against him for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, just hours after Netanyahu withdrew his immunity request.
Mandelblit announced his final indictment on November 21, but could not file it with the courts until the immunity request process was concluded.
The two-month delay in filing the indictment came from Netanyahu's unusual request for immunity (which most ministers have not requested) and the fact that the Knesset has been out of session for an extended period.
Hours after announcing the indictment on November 21, Mandelblit gave a speech in which he said that it was personally sad for him to indict Netanyahu, who he personally greatly admired in terms of talents, but that he was obligated by the law to do so.
The attorney-general ultimately indicted Netanyahu for bribery in Case 4000, the "Bezeq-Walla! Affair," for breach of public trust in Case 1000, the "Illegal Gifts Affair" and for breach of public trust in Case 2000, the "Yediot Ahronot-Yisrael Hayom Affair."
In Case 4000, Netanyahu is accused of involvement in a media bribery scheme in which Walla! owner Shaul Elovitch allegedly gave him positive coverage in exchange for Netanyahu making government policies favoring Elovitch's Bezeq company to the tune of around NIS 1.8 billion.
This is the hardest case for Netanyahu, since he faces accusations by two close former aides turned state witnesses, Shlomo Filber and Nir Hefetz.
In Case 1000, Netanyahu is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in gifts from rich tycoons, mostly from Arnon Milchin, in exchange for a variety of help with business and personal-legal initiatives. The charge itself is for acting in situations in which the prime minister had a conflict of interest, since no actual quid pro quo can be proven.
In Case 2000, Netanyahu was accused of working with Yediot and Yisrael Hayom to reduce the latter's competition with Yediot in exchange for positive coverage for Netanyahu in Yediot. The deal never went through, but the law has crimes of attempted bribery and breach of trust which can apply even if a deal does not go through. Mandelblit was never a fan of Case 2000 but decided he needed to charge Netanyahu with something once they indicted Yediot owner Arnon Nuni Mozes with bribery.
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Three-judge-panel-for-Netanyahu-trial-set-617354
#7271934 at 2019-07-31 05:32:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9304: POTUS Ridin Rough, Never Dirty!Edition
First suspect in Netanyahu corruption probe up for pre-indictment hearing
Ze'ev Rubinstein to face prosecutors over accessory to bribery allegations in Bezeq case; PM scheduled for own hearing in October
State prosecutors on Wednesday were set to hold a pre-indictment hearing for the first suspect in the Bezeq corruption probe, a sprawling case in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to face charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust later this year.
Businessman Ze'ev Rubinstein will plead his case to prosecutors on Wednesday in Tel Aviv before a decision is made on whether to charge him as an accessory to bribery.
Netanyahu is scheduled to attend his own pre-indictment hearing in the case on October 2-3, which will also cover two other corruption probes against him in which the prime minister faces additional fraud and breach of trust charges. The other suspects in the Bezeq case, Shaul and Iris Elovitch, were summoned for their respective hearings on August 15, while Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes will also be granted a last-ditch effort to fend off criminal charges in Case 2000, though a date has not yet been announced.
The attorney general will only be present at Netanyahu's hearing.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's lengthy description of Netanyahu's alleged illicit dealings with Shaul Elovitch - the majority shareholder in Israel's biggest telecom firm Bezeq, and the owner of the Walla website - took up the majority of the 57-page document released in February in which Mandelblit set out the allegations that prompted him to announce a criminal indictment against the prime minister, pending a hearing.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-suspect-in-netanyahu-corruption-probe-up-for-pre-indictment-hearing/
#6594940 at 2019-05-26 19:51:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8432: Japan knows Q Edition
'I am in no rush to eulogize our democracy. But I'm worried'
Ex-justice, AG: If Netanyahu is above the law, Israel is not a civilized country
Elyakim Rubinstein warns against anti-court laws, advanced to keep the PM from going on trial, destroying the 'checks and balances' that protect minorities and the weak
Fifteen months ago, with the investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's alleged criminal misdeeds in full swing, I interviewed the former Netanyahu-era attorney general Elyakim Rubinstein across a desk overloaded with paperwork in his office at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem.
The focus of the conversation that day was on one of his successors, the incumbent Attorney General Avichai Mandeblit, and especially, although I didn't put my questions this bluntly, whether Mandelblit would have the guts and integrity to press charges against the prime minister if necessary. Rubinstein, for his part, would never have answered questions posed that personally and crudely, but he did make clear his confidence in Mandelblit and his certainty that the man in the hottest of legal hot seats would follow the evidence wherever it led and act upon that evidence as appropriate.
A year later, on February 28, 2019, that evidence led Mandelblit to issue a highly detailed draft charge sheet against our prime minister of the past decade, accusing Netanyahu of grossly abusing his office to advance his personal interests and undermine those of the state, and warning Netanyahu that he would be charging him with fraud and breach of trust in three cases and bribery in one of them, unless the prime minister could persuade him of his innocence in a hearing that was recently scheduled for early October. (In the bribery case, Case 4000, it is alleged that Netanyahu sweetened business conditions - and stalled the vital upgrade of Israel's internet infrastructure - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for telecom tycoon Shaul Elovitch, in return for Elovitch effectively enabling Netanyahu to serve as editor in chief of the Walla website, Israel's second largest online news outlet, and shape its coverage to his liking.)
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-justice-ag-if-netanyahu-is-above-the-law-israel-is-not-a-civilized-country/
#6560240 at 2019-05-22 19:30:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8388: Eyes On The UK Edition
Not just Netanyahu: The other 4 lawmakers who may need immunity from prosecution
Gambit to save PM could also help prevent corruption charges against Shas leader Deri, Likud's Haim Katz and David Bitan; UTJ chief Litzman accused of aiding alleged pedophiles
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reported plan to advance legislation to render himself immune from prosecution in three criminal cases, and also to prevent the Supreme Court from intervening in this effort, may benefit other lawmakers as well.
In addition to Netanyahu, four other lawmakers - both MKs and ministers - are facing their own legal troubles, to different degrees, and the gambit for automatic immunity could benefit them just as much.
Netanyahu is a suspect in three criminal probes, dubbed by police cases 1000, 2000 and 4000, in which investigators have recommended graft indictments. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced in February that he intended to indict Netanyahu in all three cases, pending a hearing, which is expected to take place in October.
In a 55-page draft indictment, Mandelblit, who has overseen the criminal investigation of the prime minister, said he intends to charge Netanyahu with fraud and breach of trust in all three cases, and with bribery in one of them. Case 1000 involves accusations that Netanyahu received gifts and benefits from billionaire benefactors including Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan in exchange for favors; Case 2000 involves accusations that Netanyahu agreed with Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper publisher Arnon Mozes to weaken a rival daily in return for more favorable coverage from Yedioth; and Case 4000, widely seen as the most serious against the premier, involves accusations that Netanyahu advanced regulatory decisions that benefited Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in the Bezeq telecom giant, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, in exchange for positive coverage from its Walla news site.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/not-just-netanyahu-the-other-4-lawmakers-who-may-need-immunity-from-prosecution/
#5435066 at 2019-02-28 17:34:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6948: Prayers For Safe Travels Edition
Baker missed NOTABLE about Netanyahu to be indicted:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on bribe and fraud charges
An indictment would mark the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime.
Israel's attorney general announced Thursday that his office plans to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges after a two-year investigation.
The prime minister faces one count of bribery and two counts of fraud and breach of trust.
Police have previously recommended indicting Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different cases.
The most serious allegations against Netanyahu involve his relationship with Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Israel's telecom giant Bezeq. Police recommended an indictment in the case based on evidence collected that confidants of Netanyahu promoted regulatory changes worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Bezeq. In exchange, they believe Netanyahu used his connections with Elovitch to receive positive press coverage on Bezeq's popular subsidiary news site, Walla. Police have said their investigation concluded that Netanyahu and Elovitch engaged in a "bribe-based relationship."
Police also recommended charges be brought against Elovitch, members of his family and members of his Bezeq management team.
Plus more…..
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-bribe-fraud-charges-n977571
#5434923 at 2019-02-28 17:21:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6947: Team Q Edition
BREAKING NEWS just now:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on bribe and fraud charges
An indictment would mark the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime.
Israel's attorney general announced Thursday that his office plans to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges after a two-year investigation.
The prime minister faces one count of bribery and two counts of fraud and breach of trust.
Police have previously recommended indicting Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different cases.
The most serious allegations against Netanyahu involve his relationship with Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Israel's telecom giant Bezeq. Police recommended an indictment in the case based on evidence collected that confidants of Netanyahu promoted regulatory changes worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Bezeq. In exchange, they believe Netanyahu used his connections with Elovitch to receive positive press coverage on Bezeq's popular subsidiary news site, Walla. Police have said their investigation concluded that Netanyahu and Elovitch engaged in a "bribe-based relationship."
Police also recommended charges be brought against Elovitch, members of his family and members of his Bezeq management team.
Plus more…………
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-bribe-fraud-charges-n977571
#5420491 at 2019-02-27 20:36:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6929: Wednesday Winning Edition
Israeli AG Preparing to Indict Netanyahu On Bribery Charge This Week - Reports
The Israeli prime minister reportedly shortened his visit to Russia and will return to Israel tonight because of the reports of an indictment, per the Times of Israel.
The bribery scandal that's surrounded Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may finally reach a head, as Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is poised to recommend bribery charges, according to Israeli media reports.
Citing Israel's Army Radio, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday that the attorney general is getting ready to file charges on Case 4000, which alleges that Netanyahu took regulatory steps to help Shaul Elovitch in exchange for the telecommunication mogul's news site, Walla, covering Netanyahu in a more favorable light.
Another scandal that's surrounded the prime minister is known as Case 1000, per Times of Israel; it's reportedly a more typical bribery case in which Netanyahu is alleged to have helped out billionaires politically as part of illicit quid pro quo deals for gifts worth about $282,000. In both of these investigations, Mandelblit is expected to urge the filing of an indictment of the prime minister.
However, it is unclear whether the attorney general will recommend any legal action with regard to Case 2000, which allegedly involved Netanyahu colluding with news site Yedioth Ahronoth to cripple a competing news publication, Israel Hayom, in order to extract more positive coverage from Yedioth. Haaretz has reported that US casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson poured at least $50 million into Israel Hayom, but that the company's financial documents are a "closely guarded secret."
An indictment has been anticipated since Mandelblit announced last December that he was going to be "working quickly" as he decided whether or not to bring charges against Netanyahu, according to a report by the Jerusalem Post.
Still, the attorney general has said that the pending cases against Netanyahu "would not be influenced by anything other than the evidence and the law."
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902271072810382-israel-ag-indict-netanyahu-reports/
#4850513 at 2019-01-21 21:08:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6192: No Coincidences Edition
Leaked: Netanyahu to be Indicted in Bezeq-Walla Affair, According to Reports
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided to file bribery charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla Affair, says a senior legal official, according to Israel's Ulpan Shlishi news program on Friday night.
According to the report, senior officials involved in advanced discussions say the decision has already been made to charge Netanyahu. Mandelblit has accepted the recommendation of the State Attorney's Office, specifically that of the Tel-Aviv Financial and Tax District Office, to indict Netanyahu in Case 4000.
The Bezek-Walla Affair is a case in which Netanyahu allegedly received positive news coverage from website Walla!, which is owned by telecommunications giant Bezek in exchange for preferential regulatory treatment granted to the telecom giant.
Channel 12's Mako news site reported that the prime minister's attorneys responded to the news, saying: "On the eve of a meeting between us and the attorney general, there is no room for leaks aimed at sabotaging the meeting and damaging our right to be fairly heard."
On Thursday, Mandelblit had invited Netanyahu's attorneys on the matter of delaying a decision on whether to charge the prime minister until after the elections, according to the Mako website. The site reported that the letter sent from the attorney general's office said that even elections were no reason to delay cases against public officials or candidates.
On December 3, the Israeli police recommended that Netanyahu be charged with bribery and fraud in Case 4000, together with his wife Sarah, and the controlling shareholder of Bezek at the time, Shaul Elovitch, along with others.
Netanyahu immediately denied the charges. In a speech on December 3, he said "Ask yourselves - what special thing did Elovitch receive from me? Not only didn't he receive a thing during my period, he and Bezek lost massive capital. They say billions. What did I receive? I received terrible coverage in Walla!, particularly hostile on the eve of the elections."
Netanyahu remains defiant in the face of calls from opposition leaders that he resign as a result of the bribery cases. At a press conference in Brazil on December 31, he said, "I don't intend to resign because I believe there's nothing [to the case]. Second, Israel is country of law and according to the law there's no reason to resign before the conclusion of the hearing."
"In a democracy you establish who'll be in power according to the ballots," he said. Netanyahu has said that the cases against him are part of a left-wing effort to influence the elections through the legal system, in effect subverting the democratic process. (WIN)
http://thejewishvoice.com/2019/01/20/leaked-netanyahu-to-be-indicted-in-bezeq-walla-affair-according-to-reports/
#4572141 at 2019-01-03 01:44:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5832: Based Tucker Edition
AG said aiming for February announcement on Netanyahu indictment
Report says Case 1000 likely to produce breach of trust, rather than bribery, charge; officials split on Case 2000
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is likely to announce by February his conclusions on a possible indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three graft cases, Channel 10 news reported Wednesday, citing a legal source familiar with the investigations.
An announcement at that time would come two months before general elections on April 9.
Police have recommended that Netanyahu be indicted for bribery in all three of the probes against him, and it is now up to Mandelblit to decide whether to press charges.
In Case 1000, Netanyahu is suspected of receiving benefits worth about NIS 1 million ($282,000) from billionaire benefactors, including Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, in exchange for assistance on various issues.
Case 2000 involves a suspected illicit quid pro quo deal between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes that would have seen the prime minister hobble Israel Hayom in return for more favorable coverage from Yedioth.
In Case 4000, reportedly the most serious of the three, Netanyahu is suspected of having advanced regulatory decisions as communications minister and prime minister from 2015 to 2017 that benefited Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq, the country's largest telecommunications firm, in exchange for positive coverage from Elovitch's Walla news site.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-said-aiming-for-february-announcement-on-netanyahu-indictment/
#4182541 at 2018-12-06 18:21:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5326: Blue Checkmark Twit Shills Edition
Netanyahu allegedly requested news site run negative article on rival's wife
Israeli TV says PM asked Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch to have Walla publish piece on employment of Naftali Bennett's spouse at non-Kosher restaurant
Ombudsman rejects Netanyahu's request for wealthy associates to foot legal bills
The State Comptroller rejects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for permission to have wealthy associates pay his legal fees in a serious of corruption investigations.
"The financing of legal outlays arising from a criminal investigation, which includes a suspicion of criminal acts in connection with various wealthy people, should not be done by wealthy people," the ombudsman's Permits Committee writes in its decision.
Netanyahu had requested that Nathan Milikowsky, his cousin, and American millionaire Spencer Partrich pay his legal fees in three separate criminal probes that involve suspicions he advanced the interests of businessmen in return for gifts and positive media coverage.
Police have recommended Netanyahu be indicted in the investigations, which are known as cases 1000, 2000 and 4000.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-5-2018/
#4112941 at 2018-12-02 13:38:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5236: The French Revolution Edition
Israeli police recommend bribery charges against PM Netanyahu, wife
The Israel police have recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for bribery and other corruption charges in an investigation dubbed Case 4000.
In a statement released on Sunday, the police said that Netanyahu was suspected of taking bribes and of conduct involving "a conflict of interest" when he made decisions that benefited Shaul Elovitch, who controlled Israel's largest telecommunications firm, Bezeq.
The case involved suspicions that Netanyahu intervened with regulators to help Bezeq and in exchange Elovitch ordered the Walla News website to provide favorable coverage of the Israeli premier and his wife.
The police said they had found evidence that "Netanyahu and those close to him blatantly intervened, sometimes on a daily basis, in the content published on the Walla news website, and sought to influence the appointment of senior employees (editors and reporters), while using their ties to Shaul and [his wife] Iris Elovitch."
Investigators said Netanyahu should stand trial on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust and fraudulently accepting benefits.
They also recommended to charge Sara Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and for "disruption of investigative and judicial proceedings."
This is the third such police recommendation against Netanyahu in recent months. Now, the Israeli attorney general should decide whether to bring indictments in the case.
The Israeli prime minister, however, dismissed the accusations against himself and his wife.
"These recommendations were determined and leaked even before the investigations began," he claimed in a statement. "I'm sure that in this case the relevant authorities, after examining the issue, will reach the same conclusion: that there was nothing because there is nothing."
The Israeli police have already recommended charging Netanyahu for bribery and breach of trust in Case 1000 and Case 2000.
Netanyahu is suspected of having received luxury gifts from businessmen overseas in Case 1000.
He is also suspected of negotiating favorable press coverage with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher, Arnon Mozes, in Case 2000.
The Israelis have been holding protests to demand the prime minister's resignation over the corruption scandals, but Netanyahu has described the events as part of efforts meant to topple him "at any cost."
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/12/02/581752/Israel-Benjamin-Netanyahu-bribery
#812847 at 2018-03-27 23:21:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1007: You Gotta Fight For Your Rights Edition
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife, Sara, and son Yair were questioned by the Israel Police and the Israel Securities Authority on Monday as part of the Case 4000 investigation, otherwise known as the "Bezeq affair."
Police reportedly used a monitoring room and simultaneously questioned eight figures involved in the case: Benjamin Netanyahu; Sara Netanyahu; Yair Netanyahu; Bezeq Telecommunications Corp. controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch and his wife, Iris; former Bezeq CEO Stella Handler; former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber; and Netanyahu's former media adviser Nir Hefetz. The latter two recently signed state's-witness deals and were asked to comment on the information that was given by the suspects.
http:// www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Benjamin-Netanyahu/Special-day-of-questioning-in-Bezeq-affair-kicks-off-547109
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#3903 at 2019-09-19 19:53:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9419 Remember Remember the 5th of November Edition
>The most serious allegations
>against Netanyahu involve his relationship with
>Shaul Elovitch,
>the controlling shareholder of
>Israel's telecom giant Bezeq.