Israel’s attorney general said trying Ariel Sharon’s son on corruption charges would be a lesson in political ethics. Menachem Mazuz indicted Omri Sharon last week on charges including fraud, breach of trust and perjury for his role in funding his father’s race for the Likud Party leadership in 1999.
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