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Eugene

(62,627 posts)
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 06:38 PM Jan 2018

Netanyahu son bragged about gas deal outside strip club, tape reveals

Source: The Guardian

Netanyahu son bragged about gas deal outside strip club, tape reveals

While on tour of clubs with minder in tow, Yair Netanyahu is heard telling friend: ‘My dad made an awesome deal for your dad’

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Mon 8 Jan ‘18 19.51 GMT

Lawyers for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanayhu, tried to stop the broadcast of an embarrassing audiotape in which Netanyahu’s son Yair suggested his father helped push through a $20bn deal to the benefit of a gas tycoon.

The recording of the conversation, which took place outside a strip club, is the latest revelation to cast light on the Netanyahu family’s relationships with wealthy tycoons, which have so far spawned two corruption investigations into the prime minister’s activities.

According to the Israel Television Channel, the tape features the voices of Yair Netanyahu and Ori Maimon, a son of the gas tycoon Kobi Maimon. Maimon Sr is a shareholder in Isramco, which owns the Tamar gas fields.

According to the reports, Yair and friends, with his government-provided security guard and driver in tow, were going from one strip club to another.

He and Maimon can apparently be heard arguing about 400 shekels ($116) as they leave the club, with Yair reportedly telling his companion: “Bro, you got to spot me. My dad made an awesome deal for your dad, bro, he fought, fought in the Knesset for this, bro.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/netanyahu-son-bragged-about-gas-deal-outside-strip-club-tape-reveals
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Netanyahu son bragged about gas deal outside strip club, tape reveals (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2018 OP
Corrupt and a war criminal! Chasstev365 Jan 2018 #1
Trust fund brats the same world world over C_U_L8R Jan 2018 #2
Don't Worry, They'll Spin This By Tomorrow SoCalMusicLover Jan 2018 #3
Like father. Like son. Raster Jan 2018 #4
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
3. Don't Worry, They'll Spin This By Tomorrow
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 07:00 PM
Jan 2018

He's like all the other dictators, Berlusconi, Drumpf, Bush Jr, so nothing will come of this story.

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