Israel’s state comptroller cleared Ehud Olmert in a real-estate probe. Micha Lindenstrauss said in a report published Wednesday that he could find nothing suspicious in Olmert’s sale of his Jerusalem villa to a Jewish American philanthropist for $2.69 million.
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