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05.24.05
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Labor Party forgeries "colossal"
By: Israel Insider staff and partners   
Published: May 24, 2005   
 
While everyone in the Labor Party is shouting to high heaven about the importance of keeping the headquarters clean of corruption, private investigator Meir Palevsky has raised serious concerns about widespread forgery involving party membership forms.

Palevsky, who is responsible for checking the forms, wrote Monday to party official Nimrod Eshkol, warning him that previous examinations were superficial and influenced by partisan interests.

"A superficial and incidental check found that almost 50 percent of the forms were problematic or suspected of forgeries and were cast aside," Palevsky writes. "There's a respectable amount of people who tried to disguise their signatures on the forms, or in simple Hebrew: A single person signed for many."

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Labor Party drowning in forgeries  - (Ynetnews)  05.24.2005
 
 

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