Did the corrupt French Minster of Finance divert funds for y2k remediation of the central government to other uses?

http://www.marketweb.com/commentary/trend1129.pdf

Please follow up with any details/url as this appears to be a "developing" story.

-- Ooo La La (fearoffrance@nowhere.com), November 29, 1999

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"An another concern may give the Euro the last blow. Some may fear that the corrupt French Minister of Finance, Dominique Strauss Kahn, may have diverted the monies needed to make the omnipotent French administration Y2k compliant to others, more gratifying uses.

Because France is a highly centralized country it could come to a halt. Civil servants (the highest concentration in the world) wages, pensions and Social Security benefits would be paid with huge delays if at all, while taxes would be hard to collect."
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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 29, 1999.

mon dieu! I expect we will see more of that before we are through.

-- Nancy (wellsnl@hotmail.com), November 29, 1999.

France. Ahhh. France. Mmmmm. Yes. France. I think that says it all. ;)

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 30, 1999.

Thanks for an interesting post.

Why does it not surprise me?

I couldn't find anything about this in the regular news sources.

That doesn't surprise me much either. Getting information like this out of France is going to be like pulling teeth.

Anyway, we definitely need follow-ups if they become available.

-- Rick (rick7@postmark.net), November 30, 1999.