5/11/2003

FRENCH CORRUPTION SCANDAL Like so many massive business and government frauds this one has so many players even a program won't help. A juicy tid bit quoted by UPI in their story: " Asked to explain some $100,000 spent to equip Le Floch-Prigent's kitchen, his former wife Fatima Belaid shrugged. "My ex-husband loved cooking.," This reveals another world of such massive corruption that $100,000 for a kitchen means zero. The Guardian is doing a job but I don't trust their bias. Best stuff is HERE. But there are so many people involved and the tales are so complex that many suspect the trial is in itself a cover up. Nobody can follow so many people, so many government officials, so many complicated names from so many different countries. There is suspicion the French wish the whole story to vanish and they have chosen this type of prosecution so everyone will be confused. Bottom line: whenever there's free money plenty of people will go for it, no matter what it takes to get it.

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