Reply to: IMF led by convicted criminal.

[vetran]

I heard that she didn't inhale.

Yet blaster expects us to swallow that codswallop!

[PurpleGorilla]

I heard that she didn't inhale.

[Flashman]

George Osborne, Christine Largarde, Hilary Clinton all part of the same rotten crew who'd try and run the planet if we let them.

[Flashman]

Lets be honest most people posting here have probably been convicted at some point of a minor traffic offence, handled by the criminal courts. You had point on your licence then you have had a conviction.

We have a winner. The Post of 2016 !

[NotAllThere]

OK. Well please feel free to remove the word 'criminal' from the thread title if it isn't correct.

Nope. I'm not covering up your basic inability to apprehend facts (and, apparently, read).

[shaunbhoy]

She was convicted of negligence by a French court.

What does that make her in France?

Fit for High Office?

[GB9]

Lets be honest most people posting here have probably been convicted at some point of a minor traffic offence, handled by the criminal courts. You had point on your licence then you have had a conviction.

That's a bit different to misuse of £340m isn't it?

[vetran]

Lets be honest most people posting here have probably been convicted at some point of a minor traffic offence, handled by the criminal courts. You had point on your licence then you have had a conviction.

She has half a million points on her license.

[vetran]

Allowing the misuse of public funds is not like parking badly.

It is in the EUSSRR Comerade!

[BlasterBates]

Lets be honest most people posting here have probably been convicted at some point of a minor traffic offence, handled by the criminal courts. You had point on your licence then you have had a conviction.

[GB9]

No, when the judge decides, under French law, that it was not a criminal act.

Guilty of negligence, but not a criminal.

Accused of allowing the misuse of public funds, rather than actual corruption, she could potentially have been sentenced to a year in prison and a fine of €15,000 but escaped a sentence and emerges from the trial without a criminal record.

You see, different countries have different laws, which allow things to be a bit a different from how they are in England and Wales. For example, in Scotland, there is a verdict of "not proven", as opposed to the binary Guilty/Not Guilty.

OK. Well please feel free to remove the word 'criminal' from the thread title if it isn't correct.

[BlasterBates]

A French court has found International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence

Maybe Darren Upton should appeal and say he is guilty only of bad parking.

Probably more similar to careless driving and causing damage to some expensive property,

[NotAllThere]

so when is a conviction not criminal when prosecuted by the state?

No, when the judge decides, under French law, that it was not a criminal act.

She was convicted of negligence by a French court.

What does that make her in France?

Guilty of negligence, but not a criminal.

Accused of allowing the misuse of public funds, rather than actual corruption, she could potentially have been sentenced to a year in prison and a fine of €15,000 but escaped a sentence and emerges from the trial without a criminal record.

You see, different countries have different laws, which allow things to be a bit a different from how they are in England and Wales. For example, in Scotland, there is a verdict of "not proven", as opposed to the binary Guilty/Not Guilty.

[BrilloPad]

I''ll give you a hint:

Criminal Records and the CRB - InBrief.co.uk



Her conviction is not on the criminal record in the same way that a motoring offence isn't.

Allowing the misuse of public funds is not like parking badly.

[BrilloPad]

Just want to point out she's not actually a convicted criminal, no more than someone with a parking fine is.

Still if keeps the Daily Mail readers happy in their fantasy world.

A French court has found International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence

Maybe Darren Upton should appeal and say he is guilty only of bad parking.