Donald Trump has become the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges after a grand jury in New York voted to indict him over an alleged hush money payment. Adult film star Stormy Daniels claims she was paid $130,000 by Trump during the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair that took place a decade earlier.
but this time for illegally funding his 2012 election campaign. He was handed down his second one-year sentence, but the court ruled he was allowed to serve his jail time at home.
In neighboring Italy, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud in 2013 which led to his expulsion from Parliament by the Senate. This was only temporary as he won a seat in the Senate in 2022. Berlusconi is better known for thetied to his infamous"bunga bunga" parties that he held while in office. Some of the egregious crimes he was accused of included the rape of an underage girl. He was acquitted of all charges.
On the other side of the world, South Korea has seen two former presidents convicted of various crimes including bribery and corruption. A third, Roh Moo-hyun, took his own life before his corruption case was brought to court. He had denied the $6 million payments given to his relatives while in office were bribes.
In Israel, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former President Moshe Katsav were both handed down prison sentences between 2011 and 2014. Meanwhile, current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on trial for corruption. Netanyahu's government recently pushed ahead with plans that would see the country's judicial system weakened. As a result, 700,000 Israelis took to the streets in protest.
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