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A former French defense minister and an official in President Jacques Chirac’s governing party were convicted of illegal party funding and money laundering on Monday.
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A court in Paris found the former defense minister, François Léotard, guilty of using a fake bank scheme in 1995 to inject money into his now-defunct Republican Party. He was given a 10-month suspended jail sentence.
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Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, spokesman for Chirac’s Union for a Popular Movement party, was fined E15,000, or about $19,000, for helping disguise the operation while he was Léotard’s cabinet director.

Wow, their wrists must sting.