ERIC HALPHEN

(Éric Halphen)


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Eric Halphen

People who make off with large sums of money escape justice or get insignificant sentences, while the thief who steals a handbag … gets six years…. In the United States, Nixon quit for far less.
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He was the lead investigator of President Jacques Chiraq who had admitted being present, when mayor of Paris, at major payoffs of kickbacks to his party associates for awarding of public contracts. However, the French authorities gave the President immunity and ordered the investigation halted.

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Eric Halphen
  • Born: October 5, 1959
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Magistrate
Biography

Éric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.