Chirac pays out huge sum of money

[blu]

Makes me wonder how much money he has!

www.france24.com/en/20100825-jacques-chirac-pays-half-million-euros-settle-graft-case-france-trial-corruption

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He married well - Bernadette Chirac is a seriously rich woman; he also has lots of friends & supporters who will quite probably chuck a few shekels into the pot.

The man I feel sorry for is Alain Juppé, who carried the can for Chirac and went into political exile - he's one of the few of that crowd that didn't have sticky fingers, just an extreme sense of loyalty and personal honour. Perhaps, in recent years, the best president France didn't have...