{"id":39717,"date":"2019-06-13T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39717"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:22:13","slug":"sara-netanyahu-pleads-guilty-as-corruption-probes-loom-over-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39717","title":{"rendered":"Sara Netanyahu pleads guilty as corruption probes loom over husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Jerusalem (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/10\/06\/middleeast\/israel-sara-netanyahu-trial-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Netanyahu<\/a>, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/03\/14\/opinions\/israel-elections-netanyahu-gantz-lapid-miller\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, agreed to a plea deal on Wednesday morning in a case concerning illegally ordered meals at the Prime Minister&#8217;s residence, according to a statement released by Israel&#8217;s Justice Ministry. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Sara Netanyahu, who was initially <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/08\/30\/middleeast\/israel-case-4000-sara-netanyahu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged with fraud one year ago<\/a>, agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of taking unfair advantage of a mistake, the Justice Ministry statement said. She will also pay 55,000 shekels (approximately $15,300) &#8212; 45,000 shekels back to the state, and 10,000 shekels in the form of a fine.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A spokesman for Israel&#8217;s first lady had no comment. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem (CNN)Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to a plea deal on Wednesday morning in a case concerning illegally ordered meals at the Prime Minister&#8217;s residence, according to a statement released by Israel&#8217;s Justice Ministry. Sara Netanyahu, who was initially charged with fraud one year ago, agreed to plead guilty&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}