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hud Barak didn't need this.
Nevertheless he's got it — a
full-scale police investigation
into the financing of his
campaign last year, which has already
gained his political party an unprece-
dented multi-million dollar fine.
This, after State Comptroller
Eliezer Goldberg, whose office strikes
fear in the hearts of politicians, deter-
mined that Barak's party, One Israel,
had "grossly trampled the law."
Goldberg fined the party about $3.4
million. Most damaging, Goldberg
wrote that while he had no evidence
that Barak knew of the illegal funding
scheme, the operation was so wide-
spread and lucrative that it "should
have lit a red warning light" for the
candidate.
Barak immediately went into emer-

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gency damage-control mode. He flew
to Cairo to talk peace process with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,
but in the news conference afterward,
found himself denying Israeli
reporters' claims that the meeting's
true purpose was to divert attention at
home from the investigation.
Barak's line of defense is that he
didn't know about the illegal financ-
ing scheme, and couldn't have been
expected to know because he was so
busy trying to win the election.
To charges from Likud opponents
that he had "bought the election," he
argued that the allegedly illegal funds,
which came to about $750,000,
amounted to less than 10 percent of
his campaign war chest. Besides, Barak
said, he won the election by such a
gaping margin — 12 percent — that a
few hundred thousand dollars couldn't
have made a decisive difference.

