Ariel Sharon’s son apologized for illicitly funding his father’s 1999 run to head the Likud Party. “I made mistakes, serious mistakes, and I’m sorry for it,” Omri Sharon told Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in closing arguments before he is sentenced as part of a plea bargain. Sharon pleaded guilty last year to fraud and bribery in connection with the Likud primary in 1999, saying he illegally solicited foreign funding without his father’s knowledge. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been cleared in the funding case.
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