Political accountability. What’s that you may ask? Not too familiar but the French are giving it a shot. This week former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, otherwise known as Mr Carla Bruni, received a three year jail sentence (two years suspended) for corruption and influence peddling.
Something to do with offering a senior judge a cushy number in Monaco in return for classified info on another case against him, since dropped.
The cushy number never materialised either. Doesn’t matter apparently. The conversation was enough to do him in. A conversation that was wiretapped and all.
Some 3,700 private conversations on secret phone lines were tapped to produce evidence for the trial. Yikes. Certain New York Times readers took the news as
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