Binyamin Netanyahu facing damning expenses accusations ahead of elections

[n2doc]

A damning official report into spending by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at his official residence in Jerusalem and private seaside home has accused him of excessive and improper use of public funds, including spending huge amounts on takeaway food, hairdressing and cleaning..

Prepared by Israel’s state comptroller, Yosef Shapira – and passed to the country’s attorney general to consider whether any laws have been broken – the report is potentially highly damaging to Netanyahu coming only a month before Israel’s elections.

The government auditor’s report appears to confirm allegations that have been rumbling for several years alleging excessive spending by Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, and a lack of proper management of the costs in the prime minister’s official home.

It has come on top of lurid allegations, detailed in a civil court case, of the high-handed and abusive treatment of staff in the official residence by Sara Netanyahu – claims denied strongly by the Netanyahus.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/17/binyamin-netanyahu-spending-report

[Mosby]

1. glad to see the guardian is on top of this pressing issue

I mean, 18K for take out? That's crazy.



http://nypost.com/2014/12/16/new-yorkers-addicted-to-delivery-food/

[libdem4life]

2. "rumbling for several years" ... Funny how flaunting oneself to the world activates and

empowers fact-finding and lends credibility where deniability might have been effective before. Kind of like with Christie...once that door is opened, who knows what oozes out and you can't get it back in.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Somebody is paying for Bibi's global grandstanding

and it sure ain't Bibi.

[peacebird]

4. Cleaning costs for his two homes doubled from the already outrageous $138k per year in 2009???