Israel's attorney general says he will indict Olmert in cash-stuffed envelopes case

By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press
March 1, 2009

JERUSALEM - Israel's attorney general notified Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday that he plans to indict him on suspicion of illicitly taking cash-stuffed envelopes from a Jewish-American businessman — a sensational case that turned public opinion so sharply against the Israeli leader that he was forced to resign.

Olmert would become the first Israeli prime minister ever indicted.

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