Hadashot information on Saturday aired the contents of a letter allegedly written by an employee on the Prime Minister’s official residence which associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spouse Sara inform the TV station refute the allegations against her.
On Thursday, Sara Netanyahu was indicted together with Ezra Saidoff, a former deputy director common of the Prime Minister’s Office, with fraud together with breach of belief. The two are accused of fraudulently charging some NIS 359,000 ($100,000) in connoisseur meals on the state’s expense between 2010 and 2013, violating legal guidelines that ban the ordering of ready meals when a chef is already employed on the official residence.
Hadashot information reported that the letter was written by an employee within the family who, in response to the Netanyahus, carried out a variety of duties, together with making ready and serving meals, emphasizing that the employee was not a cook dinner or a chef. In the letter addressed to Mrs. Netanyahu, the employee apologized for an incident which concerned lasagna allegedly served with bits of glass from a damaged jar of tomato sauce.
In the letter, the unidentified employee apologizes profusely for the incident, asking forgiveness and taking duty for the “terrible mistake.”
The letter is supposed to strengthen Netanyahu’s declare that there was no skilled cook dinner on the time within the Jerusalem house to be able to justify buying meals from eating places. The indictment says 4 totally different cooks labored on the residence in shifts.
On Friday, the TV station revealed particulars from the testimony of a former media adviser to the Netanyahu household on Sara Netanyahu’s alleged misappropriation of public funds on the household’s residences.
Nir Hefetz, who in March grew to become a state’s witness against the prime minister, gave full particulars on his information of the case to police as a part of his deal.
Hefetz stated he was typically aware of Sara Netanyahu’s arguments with the Prime Minister’s Office’s authorized counsel and accountant, as they pushed again on her recurring efforts to have the state cowl the houses’ bills.
“Sarah sometimes used me too in order to [have me] convince them to approve expenses,” he reportedly stated. “I’m talking about dozens of cases… It was a Sisyphean struggle.”
Former media adviser to the prime minister Nir Hefetz arrives for a remand listening to in Case 4000 on the Tel Aviv District Court, February 22, 2018. (Flash90)
One element — if true — appeared notably petty, with the premier’s spouse allegedly demanding “that the state pay NIS 10 ($2.80) for the ‘Big Brother’ [24/7 live feed] channel” in son Yair’s room on the household’s non-public house in Caesarea.
“She wanted to replace all the windows at the Caesarea home, because someone might shoot the prime minister,” Hefetz stated. “She wished to exchange all of the plaster on the villa, asserting that a piece of plaster may fall on the prime minister’s head.
“There are many more examples, there was a wealth of incidents that exhausted the system,” Hefetz stated, in response to Hadashot.