ExFrench President Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison Over Illegal Campaign Financing

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News Summary

  • Sarkozy is the first former French president to be sentenced to actual time behind bars.
  • The court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal association in a plot from 2005 to 2007.
  • It cleared him of three other charges including passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and concealing the embezzlement of public funds.
  • The accusations trace their roots to 2011, when a Libyan news agency and former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi said the Libyan state had secretly funneled millions of euros into Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign.
PARIS (AP) A Paris court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to 5 years in prison and in a major surprise said hell be incarcerated even if he appeals, after finding him guilty Thursday [+7968 chars]

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