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Talansky 'emphatically denies' claims that he bribed Olmert
Morris Talansky, the central figure in the new investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "emphatically denies" that he bribed Olmert.
"That was a bribe? More like a tip! Who knew he came so cheap?"
In an interview to Channel 10 news on Sunday, the 75-year-old businessman from Woodmere, New York, said he "never thought in any way that the money that I gave him - it was for the purpose of his becoming mayor or electioneering - was in any way illegal or wrong. He was not the only one who came to America to ask for money for the election campaign, and so I thought it was legal."

Confronted with allegations that he had bribed the prime minister, the Long Island financier said: "I emphatically deny that I had in my mind any business in Israel. It never crossed my mind to do business here. I don't own any land, I don't own any buildings, I don't own any factories, I never built anything here... never, never was that my purpose. I have one apartment [in Jerusalem], that's all I had." "Check all of the records," he said. "I don't have now and I never had. Nothing, nothing, I don't have [anything] here."

Posted by: Fred 2008-05-12
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