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He is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption and related counts. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning 2007 campaign. The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing. After becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gadhafi to France with high honors later that year. In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid.
Persons: Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, , Moammar Gadhafi, Ziad Takieddine, Takieddine, Gadhafi, Gadhafi’s Organizations: PARIS, Sarkozy, NATO Locations: Libya, Lebanese, France
Derna, Libya CNN —Driving into Derna in the early hours was like arriving in a ghost town. One official told CNN he doesn’t believe the search for survivors is over. Libyan officials say bodies are still washing back up on the shores of Derna, days after the wall of water swept through the city. However, some Libyans told CNN how they felt this tragedy has brought a divided country together, at least for now. But some told CNN they were not equipped to deal with this kind of situation.
Persons: Moammar, doesn’t, Storm, Abdullah Doma, Mohammad Shteiwi, Derna, “ Divers, , ” Shteiwi Organizations: Libya CNN, Libyan National Army, CNN, International Organization for Migration, Getty, Volunteers, Security Locations: Derna, Libya, , AFP, Benghazi, Tripoli, Misrata, Turkish,
“You have a historical memory to call upon and you see the trust of American foreign policy and other foreign policy,” he said. “Anything that hurts America’s credibility, hurts America.”New York Times columnist William Safire praised the resignation. “In his final official act, Bernard Kalb rose above ‘State Department spokesman’ to become the spokesman for all Americans who respect and demand the truth,” Safire wrote. At CBS Marvin and Bernard were known as “The Kalbs,” but Bernard lived somewhat in the shadow of his younger brother. One widely circulated, but apocryphal, story had their mother calling the CBS foreign desk in New York and saying: “Hello, this is Marvin Kalb’s mother.
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