Fraudster sentenced to jail

[MNW67]

It was embezzlement and running a scam which fraudulently obtained millions of pounds of euro funding. Do you think the courts just made up the charges, or they didn't but she just deserved a slap on the wrist?

I did read in the Guardian that this type of fraud is endemic but it is usually only those on the far right who get prosecuted. If true, that is worrying.

 

[denso13]

I did read in the Guardian that this type of fraud is endemic but it is usually only those on the far right who get prosecuted. If true, that is worrying.

Plenty of cases on Yahoo where jail sentences are handed out to ordinary people for much less. If she did it then she perhaps got off lightly.

 

[fillyboy]

It was embezzlement and running a scam which fraudulently obtained millions of pounds of euro funding. Do you think the courts just made up the charges, or they didn't but she just deserved a slap on the wrist?

Marine Le Pen’s conviction caused a political firestorm. Here’s what actually happened.

The French far-right leader’s allies at home and abroad slammed the guilty verdict as antidemocratic.

www.politico.eu

She's guilty for sure, but being disallowed from standing in future without appeal was considered unusual.

 

[fillyboy]

What do you think about a third term?

Bending the rules sounds like a slippery slope to me.

Of course he won't stand again, he does like a wind up though.

I did read in the Guardian that this type of fraud is endemic but it is usually only those on the far right who get prosecuted. If true, that is worrying.

It is only those on the right and it is worrying.

 

[denso13]

was considered unusual.

She's got some unbiased supporters,

"Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, the Kremlin, U.S. President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk have all weighed in — the latter going as far as describing the verdict as an act of the “radical left.”"

 

[blup]

I did read in the Guardian that this type of fraud is endemic but it is usually only those on the far right who get prosecuted. If true, that is worrying.

There is a European gravy train, Faridge was a great consumer of it amongst many others, but why not prosecute someone who is dedicated to overthrowing representative democracy? It is banning her from standing from office that is the political act, and good for the French. The US could learn a thing or to from the episode.

 

[Odds]

What do you think about a third term?

Bending the rules sounds like a slippery slope to me.

It won't get past the SC - the 22nd amendment will put paid to that mad motion.
In a nutshell; he'd have to run again as VP on the Vance ticket, then Vance resigns, if he's elected, then Trump steps into office again.

 

[fillyboy]

It won't get past the SC - the 22nd amendment will put paid to that mad motion.
In a nutshell; he'd have to run again as VP on the Vance ticket, then Vance resigns, if he's elected, then Trump steps into office again.

Won't happen, Vance will will be the next president, Trump will do well to see out this term for a number of reasons.

 

[Vinty]

Didn't FD Roosevelt serve 4 terms as President.

 

[IT Minion]

Didn't FD Roosevelt serve 4 terms as President.

Before the 22nd amendment, literally just before it. I think it was passed because of him being the first president to serve more than two.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Marine Le Pen’s conviction caused a political firestorm. Here’s what actually happened.

The French far-right leader’s allies at home and abroad slammed the guilty verdict as antidemocratic.

www.politico.eu

She's guilty for sure, but being disallowed from standing in future without appeal was considered unusual.

That is all that matters.

What party, what punishment, what happens afterwards are all ifs buts and maybes.

Guilty is guilty, laws are are laws.