Feiglin Served NO Prison Time, Rather Community Service …

This report follows-up on the previous report concerning Bibi’s attempt to oust Moshe Feiglin from Likud.

Netanyahu Bid: Push Off Primaries to Get Feiglin Out

Excerpts;

“Netanyahu has met with Tzvi Cohen, the Likud’s Election Committee chairman, who approved the initiative. It involves a change to the party’s constitution that would ban anyone with a criminal record and a jail sentence of at least three months from running for Knesset. ”

“In Nov. 1997, Feiglin – as leader of the anti-Oslo Zo Artzeinu (This is Our Land) organization – was sentenced to six months in prison, which he was permitted to convert to six months of public service. He had been convicted two months earlier of ‘sedition’ for organizing massive road blockades in the framework of anti-Oslo protests in 1994.”

“… the judges said that the government should learn from this affair to be more attuned to the opinions of large sectors of the society. They said that the defendants carried out a ‘sincere protest’ in pure faith, and that they represented the opinion of many who felt that the government was purposely ignoring them.”

“Another potential candidate who would be affected by Netanyahu’s bid is Shlomi Oz, a supporter of Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Kadima MK Omri Sharon, the Prime Minister’s son. Oz was sent to prison in 1989 for 14 months on charges related to counterfeiting, debt collection and the like.”

And lookie, lookie who Shlomi Oz’s friend is; The Octopus’ And His Friends

Excerpts:

“Oz ran the debt-collection company owned by the Alperons, which allegedly used strong-arm tactics to collect bad debts. Oz denies it. He tries to minimize the weight of the crimes he was charged with. ‘I never hurt anyone. I never touched anyone, and never hurt anyone. As far as I saw things at the time, the crimes I committed did not appear to me to be crimes against society.‘ The gang was sent to jail. Oz spent six months in Kfar Yona, and then was sent to Damoun prison. ‘I ended up at the worst jail of all. It was freezing cold and the prison population was drug addicts.'”

“The hearings went on day after day. Because of the large amount of material collected by the police, the lawyers wanted a lot of money. Oz decided to defend himself. ‘Even if I could have afforded a lawyer, I couldn’t ignore the fact that there were 17 other accused who didn’t have any money.’ The trial and his defense distracted him from the difficult conditions at Damoun Prison. He studied the two-volume legal reference book, ‘Criminal Proceedings,’ by Ya’acov Kedmi. Summing up her case, the district judge in the case, Edna Arbel, said that she wished other lawyers were able to present their arguments the way Oz had managed. In 1990 he was freed after spending 14 months in prison. What have you done to make a living since you were let out of jail? ‘If I detail my business dealings, it would destroy me. Everywhere, the minute they heard I have a criminal record, they were all over me.'”

And another Report;

Omri Sharon’s Pal is Mussa Alperon

Excerpts:

“One of the protagonists in the takeover of the Likud branch in the city is Shlomi Oz. Along with his wife Ofra and his brother Ofer, Oz was elected by the party’s branch to go to the convention as delegates. Now Ofra Oz is the lone candidate to become chairman of the party branch.”

“He was one of the managers in a debt collection company the brothers ran. Together with the Alperons and others, Oz was also involved in plotting the counterfeiting of $2 million. He was convicted in court for conspiracy to commit a crime and extortion through threats. He was sent to jail for 32 months.”

Commentary:

Whereas Bibi first was talking about anyone who served jail time, now he’s talking about
having been convicted. Feiglin has already served a 7 year limitation, having be sentenced 7 years ago. Now the “Old Boys” are looking for a way to oust Feiglin completely. We have now established that there is at least one Likud MK with a criminal record, maybe there are more. Look deep enough and we will see how flawed, selective and discriminatory Bibi and the “Old Boys” are regarding Moshe Feiglin. MB