Publisher Convicted of Witness Intimidation
An Israeli court convicted a former newspaper publisher of breach of trust and intimidating a witness, but in a plea bargain dropped a charge that he tried to arrange the murder of a witness.
Ofer Nimrodi, whose family partially owns the Maariv daily, will be sentenced within a few days.
Nimrodi had been accused of attempting to hire somebody to kill private investigator Yaakov Tsur, a prosecution witness in an earlier wiretapping case that ended in a plea bargain, with the charge dropped.
The wiretapping began around 1994, when Maariv and its main rival, Yediot Aharonot, were involved in a circulation war.
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