Former Mayor Of Second Largest Greek City Sentenced To Life For Embezzling €17 Million
Now here is a headline one will never find in the US: "Former mayor, local officials sentenced to life for embezzlement."
This headline comes from Greece, which due to the country's insolvency, is finally back to the anachronistic practice of holding elected officials in positions of power accountable for their actions because the people are understandably angry and seek justice. Other "developed" countries have the luxury of distracting the public with such trivial sideshows as the Criss Angel school of levitating wealth effects and other illusions which have managed to delay the day of comparable reckoning for now. Hopefully Bernanke can continue his wholesale assault against savers for years and years, or else one may just get the US mainstream media reporting of such atrocities against the status quo in the US.
From AP:
A court in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has convicted three of the city's former top officials, including a former mayor, and sentenced them to life imprisonment for embezzling more than €17 million from the municipality.
Former mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, who was also previously a junior government minister, insisted he had not been involved in any embezzlement. The municipality's former general secretary, Mihalis Lemousias, and former treasurer Panagiotis Saxonis were also given life sentences.
All three are to be jailed later Wednesday.
Two former financial directors were sentenced to 10 and 15 years each, and were released pending their appeal.
And the man with the lots of letters in his name himself who wishes he was in Zihuatanejo:
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Hang the fuckers.
In the US, it would result in a $1000 fine and no admission of wrongdoing.
or they would look the other way as is currently happening in most cities.
Accountable?
Accountability?
I don't get it. It's all Greek to me.
In the US, he'd get sentenced to a third term in office.
Is that Atlantic Shitty job taken? He'd be perfect!
shouldnt they just send them to armandhammermendagja in iran....he seems to know how handle these situations
Where's Corzine??
Union leadership ... Corzine style :
« The head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union has been arrested ... Elba Esther Gordillo, who has led the 1.5 million-member National Union of Education Worker for 23 years, was detained in Toluca on Tuesday on charges that she embezzled about $160 million from union funds ... »
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/201322724427206838.html
In the US, politicians only get severe prison sentences if they talk smack about a bank.
Give them asylum in US and citizenship, they are very qualified.
Someone forgot that even the pols need to make campaign contributions
Here's Johnny.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79201873@N08/8514257852/in/photostream
Seriously, I would have thought "sentenced to life in exile" might be closer to the truth.
I thot they got a hefty bonus for that kind of behavior in the US.
>In the US, it would result in a $1000 fine and no admission of wrongdoing.<
And then Goldman Sucks would hire them and give them a bonus.
And a contract like turbo tax cheat Timmy's to write a tell all book, and sell the movie rights.
Get a rope, it'll save the Greek taxpayers a lot of money.
Exactly, there is no tax monies to support him in prison anyway. Show the world some real consequences and only then will these fuckers change their bad behavior (if only for a little while).
He only stole $17 million.
Bernanke is rolling over laughing at such an amateur.
PUBLIC HANGINGS!!
What a dumb-ass. Either you embezzle 17 million or you stay in the country. You do not do both.
Cute.
Go -Ice-land or BUST!!
Olala, pardon me, I forgot it's a beautiful-beautiful Spring in the Mediterranean -- oh well, back to getting a tan for the 99% of the population.
A tan and a nice round of anal for everyone.
Opa! No really, my first +100 green arrow comment, on the Dimon thread this morning!
Today, I am King! Cheetos and handjobs, for all my men!
Mind-Freak economy!
Wont do a damned thing unless they arrest and jail the bankers who gave him 17 million.
If you dont arrest the bankers, they will just keep buying your politicians.
It's the corrupt Greek government's way of throwing a bone to the masses before the next wave of new cuts get announced in June.
Move along, nothing to see here.
You won't see that type of justice in the US because our bankers are working on putting their heads in one of those FEMA camp guillotines.
They should go after anyone Goldman to get the truth flowing.
Europe needs to learn from the US. We have the best criminal minds in the world. Hank Paulson and Corzine make these people look like punks.
Never mind life.
Peel, or boil this fucker alive from cold.
You dont authorities, I can give you a cast iron guarantee, we will. We are fucking sick to the back teeth of the shit these grifting fucking parasites are getting away with.
Either you stop it. Or we will, and if we, meaning people like me do it, you go with them.
You fucking "Looking the other way while crime is being commited boys, we get a bonus in our pay check", you lot go with them.
Cunts
With ur slingshot?
+10 for enthusiasm.
Trust me mate,
Unless I meet you in America where I can get my hands on a gun, if you meet me here in Englishtan at 50 feet or less, you are dead.
All in good jest of course, keep up the good work friend. I have no fucking doubt the good will prevail.
We always do.
This place ZH gives me heart. There are many good minded, thoroughly nice chaps and women on here it makes me smile knowing that when the game comes down, there really are some genuine folk out there in the wilderness.
We will be alright in the end. We will see to this, its only a flesh wound.....
Inthemix96 said:
I have no doubt whatsoever about your determination, not to mention your proficiency with a catapult (slingshot).
What many people forget is that all it takes to obtain a firearm, even in Royal Windsorstan, is to incapacitate someone who is already carrying one.
Slingshots, arrows, and other far less conventional items are capable of this.
Agreed. And you're certainly not alone over there. For some reason the page below reminds me of your "screw the bastards" attitude. Some blighter took the original page down, but this archive still exists:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121021071044/http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gats...
Theforthstooge-ing,
It will be a glorious day when we all meet up and declare victory over these bastards who are either peodophiles, thieves, and liars.
We WILL be victorious my friend. And it will give me more than a smile when one of her majestys finest comes at me while I put a quarter nay half inch ball bearing through his head, silently, or his heart. We are indefatiguable friend. We are legion. We hold the hard card.
And on top of the lot stooge, they should have left my kids alone. They didnt. And as long as I have a hole in my arse, I will make it my personal endeavour to make sure they will. Not every one is a shy away keyboard warrior. The world is about to find out gloriously who isnt. Godspeed mate. Take care.
Hey tha's my home town here on ZH
Perhaps you could impart those skills to me. I do like the idea of ball bearings for ammo. Went to a gun show last month & didn't want to buy until I had shot it. Nice little Ruger. Can't buy it now as they're nowhere to be had. At least in the heart of Redneckistan.
Willygroper.
Try and source a barnett "Diablo" catapult, absolutley the best bet for a "slingshot". The "Black Widow" what they make is alright but not up to the right out power of a diablo.
I can myself hit a coke can, with up to a half inch ball bearing at at least 50 yards. And trust me on this, these things make no noise, none at all. To top it off, its great fun "getting your eye in" using them. Watch out for riquoche mind, quarter inch is big enough, half inch will kill you.
And try power bands on them, that takes the silent shot nearly 70 yards, in straight line. Its all us Englishers like me use. For rats of course.....
:-)........ Take care mate.
Inthemix96: Something you may be interested in. Convert your catapult into a dual use slingshot / slingbow that also fires arrows quite accurately and silently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSj91PXjal
Here in Canuckistan I used to have all the firearm & hunting licenses back in the 80's but let them lapse due to not using them. I never did like the idea of "registering" guns or "begging" the .gov for a license to hunt (or to cathch a fucking fish for Khrist Sake). These days I just buy various Co2 & pump pellet guns that don't require any license. My latest purchase was a pretty good quality replica Colt Python 357 Co2 with nice holster and 4 - 10 round mags included for a mere $80. Pellet guns ain't the real thing but they still hurt like fuck and can ruin your day if you get shot with one.
Cheers from the colonies mate!
Cheers angus.
Wilco mate, thanks.
He who laughs last, laughs loudest, and all that jazz.
Keep on keeping on mate. I will be alright mate, I know I will, they wont, Cunts.
Take care, I say it a lot but I mean it. :-)
Brother, enough of us are feeling exactly the same. This global circle jerk is gonna get fuckin ugly....
Inthemex96 you bring a pair of real cheap Chicom pliers (Globalisation Irony) I fancy using a good old Oxy-Acetylene touch... real slow. Get Medieval on their arses.
3% is all it will take...
Cunts
Rogue Trooper,
I am right at your side mate.
I personally have had enough. I have two children, 16 and 12. I may have been an ignorant cunt, a bit slow, a bit fucking naive, but the buck stops with me, they should leave me and my kids alone.
They didnt, and if it has anything to with me, they will.
Its going to take people like you and me to bring this game to its final and inevitable conclusion.
And you know what? I fucking cannot wait friend. They started it, us fucking citizens will finish it. Game on mate. Lets give these fuckers war
True mate, many here will have a similar story.
Could be wrong but if you are in the UK... you can still get a bolt action (get a 308), a shot gun or even a .22 rimfire. All good in the right hands. Will be a nightmare with the rules and red tape but it can be done.... then you practice.
Went the SHFT you will be able to pick up some better toys at her Majesties local army base... An L85A2 is not exactly an M1A but hey you cannot be too fussy LOL!
ZH rocks and we come from all over the world. I better put some Iron Maiden on in the car later. Weekend Warrior seems appropriate ;)
Hmmm, thinking about this further.... "Out in the Fields" would be a better tune? ;)
We are inherantley inventive over here rouge.
I have a not rigged up mains tazer running 240 volts with a 50 foot cord. Guns in my opinion (its the way we are here as we cant get them) are to personal. If I want to hurt you, if you hurt me, I want the pain to linger mate.
Us limeys are not soft mate, far from it. I would have bernank screaming for his mother in 5 minutes.
I only have to do this to mark carney or merv the swerve now.
Or people like me will.... Take care mate.
And there I was thinking everyone here in the UK was sound asleep. You Gents give me hope. Not long before the UK ignites now, getting all of my preparations in order:
Whiskey - Check.
2 by 4 - Check.
Rope - Check.
Mass protests in Bulgaria, France, Spain, Greece, Canada. It's coming.....
Having spent just a couple of days once in a Greek jail,I can assure
you that the conditions were terrible.That was back when they had
money for food and facilities.I can barely concieve of what they must be like now.
The life sentence will be short and painfull.Justly deserved to boot.
Do tell. :)
Charged with smuggling.
I was, but not the items in the charge.
Hole in the floor bathroom,moldy food,once a day,and your back needed
to be against the wall at all times.Not called Greek style for nothing.
Was aquitted.
The thought of that made my sphincter hurt. Yikes!
This is a sign that the situation is getting precarious in Greece. Otherwise they'd never shove "one of their own" under the bus.
I was thinking along the same lines that he forgot to pay someone. now he'll pay to stay out