Somehow I had forgotten that a decade ago, « Christine Lagarde has been found guilty of negligence in approving a massive payout of taxpayers’ money to controversial French businessman Bernard Tapie ».
A 403 million € deal went to a rich donor thanks to her arbitration, but the court "declined to impose either a fine or a custodial penalty" due to "her good reputation and her international status", despite finding her guilty.
I wouldn't be able to get another job in finance ever again if I was caught in such an affair, she got to be head of the IMF for a decade and has been head of the EU's central bank for the past 7 years.
Vulgar display of bourgeois class solidarity.






