Eva Joly, a former anti-corruption magistrate who is a Greens candidate in this year's French presidential elections, called it a shocking salary in light of the economic crises in the euro zone.
He lashed out at the barbaric practices of his day: the use of torture and secret proceedings, the caprice and corruption of magistrates, brutal and degrading punishments.
Eva Joly, the former anti-corruption investigative magistrate and potential green party presidential candidate, said Lagarde might have received "instructions" directly from the Elysée.
The fire hazard posed when the top jetties all but met across the narrow alleys was well perceived—"as it does facilitate a conflagration, so does it also hinder the remedy", wrote one observer —but "the covetousness of the citizens and connivancy [that is, the corruption] of Magistrates" worked in favour of jetties.
In a remarkable interview on Icelandic television last week, Eva Joly, the famous French-Norwegian investigative magistrate and corruption fighter, stated that an investigation of the financial crimes that resulted in Iceland's financial catastrophe (the kreppa) was necessary "for the social contract, for having the feeling of being at nation and living together".
Italian media reported Thursday that magistrates investigating corruption interviewed several women who said they had been paid to accompany Mr. Berlusconi to dinner parties.
On Monday, the Vatican also issued an unusually detailed defense of the finances of its Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which has vast real estate holdings in Rome and whose former director, the current archbishop of Naples, has been a target in a broad corruption investigation by Italian magistrates.
France's new breed of hard-driving, corruption-busting investigating magistrates suffered an embarrassing setback today when a court acquitted a former finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in his forgery trial.
This example shows that there can be corruption of a person (the magistrate(s)) without a corruptor (assume the government and other officials are unaware of the problem of training and resourcing the magistracy).
His father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a local chief and councillor to the monarch; he had been appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a governing white magistrate.
The investigating magistrates heading the corruption inquiry decided there was enough evidence to put him under official investigation.
