Article: Olmert calls Ben-Yair 'wicked'

BATSHEVA TSUR
Jerusalem Post
01-23-1998
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert has charged that former attorney-general Michael Ben-Yair indicted him "because he [Ben-Yair] is a wicked person."

"I am convinced that Ben-Yair had premeditated ulterior motives, because that is the kind of person he is. Everyone who knows Ben-Yair knows that he acted out of evil intent, to settle personal accounts and pave his own way to political options," Olmert was quoted telling the Bar Association's journal, Halishka.

Olmert was acquitted on September 28 by Tel Aviv District Court on charges of campaign finance fraud in connection with the 1988 Knesset election and the 1989 local council elections, when he was the ...

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