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December 20, 2016

IMF Head Christine Lagarde Convicted of Negligence
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The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has been
convicted in absentia by a French court of "negligence by a person in
position of public authority." The case stems from a case in which she
approved the misuse of hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds
in 2008, while she was French finance minister. The French court did not
sentence Lagarde to any punishment, and she will not have a criminal
record.


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