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Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement, Banned From Running for Office

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement of public funds and has been deemed ineligible to run for public office, a ruling that could derail her 2027 campaign to succeed Emmanuel Macron as French President.The ruling, announced in Paris on Monday, found that from 2004 to 2017, Le Pen, eight members of the European Parliament and 12 assistants from her Rassemblement National (RN) party, then called the Front National (FN), illegally siphoned off European Union funding to bankroll RN activities within France. The court estimated the damages at just over $3 million (2.9 million euro). The case concerned EU funds allotted to Le Pen and her party when she was a member of the European Parliament. The fraud came mainly in the form of no-shows: Staff hired with money from Brussels were, in reality, working for her party inside France. Le Pen had denied any wrongdoing.Related StoriesTV’Adolescence’ Co-Creator Responds to Theory About Show Being “Anti-White Pro…