Olmert may have taken ``envelopes full of cash''
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of having taken envelopes full of cash from a US businessman, the chief prosecutor said yesterday in his most graphic public account of a corruption case against Olmert.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of having taken cash from a US businessman, the chief prosecutor said yesterday.State Prosecutor Moshe Lador, speaking at a Supreme Court hearing, said investigators suspected that New York businessman Morris Talansky had given Mr. Olmert ``dollars, in cash and in envelopes, during brief meetings from time to time.''