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Article: Caught between 'Uncle Moish' and Mr. Talansky
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- July 22, 2008
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CALEV BEN-DAVID
Jerusalem Post
07-22-2008
Headline: Caught between 'Uncle Moish' and Mr. Talansky
Byline: CALEV BEN-DAVID
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 03
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 -- A small but telling moment came during the cross- examination of Morris Talansky at the Jerusalem District Court on Monday. It occurred while he was being questioned by Navot Tel-Tzur, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lawyers, about $100,000 that was transferred in 1999 from one of his accounts to that of Uri Messer, the prime minister's former law partner.
Talansky had claimed to the police he had no memory of this transfer, and that it appeared Messer may have overstepped the authority granted him earlier ...