JERUSALEM -- Shula Zaken, former bureau chief for then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was convicted for corruption. Zaken was convicted Sunday by the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on charges of fraud and breach of trust stemming from a case over...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA, JERUSALEM
• Published January 11, 2012
The indictment of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and 17 other Israelis on charges related to one of the largest real estate scandals in Israeli history is the latest shoe to drop in a country where political corruption has come to be seen as an epidemic....
