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February 12, 2009
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ALLISON HOFFMAN, Jerusalem Post correspondent
Jerusalem Post
02-12-2009
Headline: Talansky acquitted in NY assault case
Byline: ALLISON HOFFMAN, Jerusalem Post correspondent
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 08

Thursday, February 12, 2009 -- NEW YORK - Morris Talansky, the American financier at the center of one of the corruption probes against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was cleared Tuesday of misdemeanor assault charges in a Long Island court.

Talansky, an Orthodox Jew, had faced up to a year in prison if convicted of attacking his longtime dentist, Leonard Barashick, 85, during an argument about missing payments in 2007.

Supervising Judge William O'Brien dismissed the case after a two-day ...

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