DISHONEST
LEADERS OF VARIOUS NATIONS
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It
is beyond me as to me why so many world leaders are so dishonest. Their
salaries should be suffice for their income. Here are the names of some of these
dishonest leaders.
Putin
This dishonest
Russian has
used his last decade of absolute power and wholehearted corruption to stash
away a vast personal fortune estimated at more than $70
billion. A fortune that simply does not jibe with the humble,
man-of-the-people, portrait Putin paints of himself. Does he pay yay taxes on
that money? Give me a break.
vLadimir Putin is currently serving his second term as the
President of Russia. His first Presidential term lasted from 2000 – 2008. Putin
was also Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 – 2000 and again from 2008 – 2012.
In last April's financial disclosure, Putin listed his "official"
Presidential salary at $187,000 (5.8
million rubles.). And his salary has gone up more than 50% since last year. where
did he get all that other money?
Sergei Kolesnikov said that he worked for the Kremlin to collect money
from the super-rich, which they believed was to be spent on healthcare, but
which was ultimately used “to help build a $1 billion palace for Putin on the
Black Sea coast, The BBC said it had seen documents from one
of the offshore companies that diverted millions of dollars to the palace,
which was constructed during Putin’s first term as president. Mr. Kolesnikov was also allegedly filmed
discussing Mr. Putin’s secret fortune – investments of up to $440 million,
Where did he get all that money?
This
man is the Prime minister of Israel. He has become the
first serving Israeli prime minister to
face criminal charges as he went on
trial over corruption allegations on the
24th of May, 2020. He
lambasted Israel's justice system for bringing "fabricated and
ludicrous" charges against him as he became the first serving Israeli
prime minister to face criminal prosecution.
Israel's
attorney general recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with
bribery, fraud and breach of trust on in a series of corruption scandals that
have dogged his recent years in office and overshadowed his current re-election
campaign.
The scandals
have engulfed Netanyahu's family and his inner circle, with at least three
former close confidants turning state's evidence and testifying as a witness
against him. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit says he has sufficient
evidence to press charges against Netanyahu in three separate cases, pending a
pre-indictment hearing where Netanyahu will be given the opportunity to defend
himself. His political opponents, and indeed the entire country, have been
eagerly awaiting the decision of Mandelblit — a Netanyahu appointee.
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, have long been
saddled with a penchant for expensive tastes and questionable use of public
funds. Mrs. Netanyahu has been indicted for graft, fraud and breach of trust
for allegedly overspending more than $100,000 in public funds on private meals
at their official residence.
The most damaging case involves
an influence-peddling scandal in which two of Netanyahu's closest aides are
testifying against him on suspicion of promoting regulation worth hundreds of
millions of dollars to Israel's Bezeq telecom company. In return, Bezeq's popular
news site, Walla, allegedly provided
favorable coverage of Netanyahu and his family. Nir Hefetz, a former Netanyahu
family spokesman, and Shlomo Filber, the former director of the Communications
Ministry under Netanyahu, cut deals with prosecutors after they were arrested
along with Bezeq's controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch, his wife, son and
other top Bezeq executives. Former journalists at the Walla news site have attested to being pressured to refrain from
negative reporting of Netanyahu. Mandelblit said he recommends charging
Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
Police recommended indicting
Netanyahu over accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon
Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. Police say that in return for
lavish gifts that included jewelry, expensive cigars and champagne, Netanyahu
had operated on Milchan's behalf on U.S. visa matters, tried to legislate a
generous tax break for him and sought to promote his interests in the Israeli
media market. Police have not commented on what Packer, who reportedly sought
Israeli residency status for tax purposes, may have received, and Netanyahu has
said everything he received were gifts from friends. Long-time aide Ari Harow
who is a state witness in this case.
Mandelblit recommends charging Netanyahu with fraud and breach of trust.
Police have also recommended
indicting Netanyahu for supposedly offering a newspaper publisher legislation
that would weaken his paper's main rival in return for more favorable coverage.
Netanyahu reportedly was recorded asking Arnon Mozes, the publisher of the
Yediot Ahronot daily, for positive coverage in exchange for helping to weaken
Israel Hayom, a free pro-Netanyahu newspaper that had cut into Yediot's
business.
Israel Hayom is financed by
Netanyahu's American billionaire friend Sheldon Adelson and largely serves as
the prime minister's mouthpiece. Netanyahu has noted that a proposed law to
weaken Israel Hayom never passed and that he had even dissolved his coalition and
called a new election in 2015 because of his opposition to the proposal. Harow
is a state witness in this case, too. Mandelblit recommends charging Netanyahu
with fraud and breach of trust.
Bair Bolsonaro
This man is currently the president of Brazil. Sao Paulo (CNN) Brazil's highest court has authorized an investigation
into allegations that President sought to interfere with police
investigations. The decision ratchets up pressure on Bolsonaro, who is under
fire over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and a looming economic
crisis.
Some of his cabinet
ministers are likely to resign after being placed under investigation in a massive corruption probe
Donald Trump
It
shouldn’t be a surprise to any9ne that this political freak is dishonest The Washington
Post’s fact-checking operation has now counted 10,000 “false or misleading claims” by Donald Trump during his presidency. It’s hard to convey how big a
deal this is. To begin with, te allegation is real. Anyone can go through the Post’s data and
find plenty to argue with — maybe one
statement isn’t really false, another was just an exaggeration and some
other one was nit-picky. But even if the fact-checkers are wrong an
implausible three out of four times, that’s still 2,500 false or misleading
claims by the president in two-plus years.
But is he dishonest? Ask
the students who paid fees to his so-called University. Trump
University (also
known as the Trump Wealth
Institute and Trump
Entrepreneur Initiative LLC) was an American company that ran a real
estate training program from 2005 until 2010. It was owned and operated
by The Trump Organization. A separate organization, Trump
Institute,
was licensed by Trump University but not owned by The Trump Organization. After
multiple lawsuits, it is now defunct. It was founded by Donald
Trump and
his associates, Michael Sexton and Jonathan Spitalny, in 2004. The company
offered courses in real estate, asset management, entrepreneurship, and wealth
creation. The courses were a sham.
Donald Trump
and his administration did not create the worst biological threat that the
world has experienced in more than 100 years, but the American
president’s incompetence, ignorance, and dishonesty in handling this crisis has been stunning. One
hundred and twenty-seven thousand Americans are dead already, and that number
will continue to rise.
On Decmber. 18th,
2019, Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on two
charges based on attempting to have Ukraine interfere with the U.S.
presidential elections. The first charge—or article of impeachment—was abuse of
power and the second was obstruction of Congress. Ah, the good old days of
common presidential corruption. The Senate didn’t follow suit.
Here were six pr0ven “Articles of Incompetence, Ignorance,
and Dishonesty” that in many ways dwarf the corruption that led to Trump’s
original impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Trump’s lawyers and his Justice Department contended that the
president didn’t have to comply with the subpoenas and could block his
financial advisers from complying to the subpoenas because the requests were
overly intrusive and undermined to the sweep immunity from criminal
investigations any president should enjoy while in office. The Supreme Court ruled otherwise.
The Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is conducting a probe into the Trump
Organization’s efforts to mask hush money paid to two women who said they had
sexual encounters with Trump. The D.A. wants to explore whether, as part of
those maneuvers, Trump’s team falsified business records. Trump’s lawyers
argued that prosecutors like Vance should have to meet a heightened standard
when seeking any president’s personal papers. Chief Justice John Roberts,
writing for the majority, disagreed,
President Trump reminds me of the story of the king who wore
no clothes but believed that he was
fully dressed.
Justin
Trudeau
This man is
currently the Prime Minister of Canada. He is one of the two sons of the late Pierre
Trudeau who was a former prime minister in the latter part of the 1970s and the
earlier part of the 1980s.
Trudeau is already facing serious ethics
problems by blurring the line between the public interest and his personal
profit. Apparently he doesn’t even care what the voters think about his
misdeeds.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being investigated for the
third time by the ethics commissioner.
Mario Dion, the conflict of interest and
ethics commissioner, confirmed recently confirmed that he has accepted a complaint by Tory MP
Michael Barrett and will look into concerns alleging Trudeau broke the Conflict of Interest Act when the government awarded
WE Charity a sole-sourced contract that did not follow the normal contracting process. The Commissioner has launched
his investigation into Justin Trudeau's involvement in awarding the 900million
dollar contract to charity with close ties to his family and the his Liberal Party.
In a ruling posted on the website of the
Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics
Commissioner Mary Dawson said that her investigation
into two complaints about the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking multiple federal ethics rules when he accepted
a ride on the Aga Khan’s private helicopter and stayed on his
private island over the holidays in 2016, The ethics commissioner has ruled.trip
to the found that Trudeau violated the Conflict
of Interest Act when he and his family accepted the trip. But she also
dismissed several of the specific violations brought within those complaints.
Essentially, the ruling boils down to two core issues: whether Trudeau’s
acceptance of the trip put him in a conflict of interest because the Aga Khan
has ongoing business ties with the government, and also whether he broke the
rules around when cabinet officials and members of the House of Commons can
accept rides on private transportation.
This article deals with some of the
current leaders of nations who are dishonest. The next article will be about
the dishonesty of past despots of nations.
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