FRANCE SLANDER TRIAL

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FRANCE SLANDER TRIAL
Imad Lahoud, alleged to be the man who falsified lists purporting to show clients, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who held secret foreign accounts to hold bribe money, leaves after the verdict of a slander trial against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin at the Paris courthouse Thursday Jan. 28, 2010. The court acquitted de Villepin on charges related to his alleged role in a smear campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy. Lahoud was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months of that suspended and fined him 40,000 euros for his role in the falsification and other charges. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)