Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan — former Israeli spy and current head of New Regency films — gave illicit bribes accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli police declared Tuesday night in a shock announcement.
They will recommend both men, as well as an Israeli publishing tycoon, be officially charged with bribery.Tuesday’s announcement offered the latest twist in a multi-year scandal that has plagued Israel’s right-wing prime minister.
Its plot reads like one of Milchan’s own films, centering around hush-hush gifts of expensive pink champagne, thousand-dollar cigars and face time with Hollywood elite in exchange for tax breaks worth billions of shekels.
At the heart of the so-called Case 1000 was the question of whether a high-placed Hollywood executive — later revealed to be Milchan — lavished Netanyahu and his wife Sara with expensive gifts and A-list access in exchange for political favors.On Tuesday night, police answered that question, potentially signaling the end of Netanyahu’s decades
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