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| Talansky: I can't remember details of cash transfers to Olmert |
| 2008-07-21 |
| U.S. businessman Morris Talansky lashed out at the prime minister's lawyer during his third day of cross-examination in a corruption case Sunday, as Ehud Olmert's defense team tried to tear holes in Talansky's testimony and portray him as an unreliable witness. In the latest court session, Olmert's attorneys played video clips from police interrogations that showed Talansky changing his account of sums he said he had given Olmert. Asked to explain the discrepancies, Talansky said they stemmed from "a state of confusion and fear" during police questioning - and he insisted figures he had given originally had been accurate. "I'd appreciate if you didn't call me a liar," Talansky told Olmert attorney Eli Zohar after the lawyer asked whether his testimony "is a truth or a lie." Talansky previously told police he gave Olmert $150,000, much of it in cash-filled envelopes, before Olmert became prime minister in 2006. Both Olmert and Talansky have denied any wrongdoing. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Maybe they're queer for each other. How's that for a defense? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-21 07:59 |