New Attorney General to Decide Sharon’s Fate
Israel’s Cabinet has approved a new attorney general who will decide whether Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should be indicted on charges of accepting bribes.
Menachem Mazuz, who has served as a deputy attorney general for the past decade, has given no indication of which way he will lean in the case.
Israel’s state prosecutor last week charged developer David Appel with seeking to bribe Sharon in the late ‘90s to use his influence to help win approval for a land deal in Greece. Sharon was foreign minister at the time.
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