In fresh leaks, PM's wife Sara Netanyahu told investigators her chef was a 'shitty cook'

The steady leak of transcripts from the testimony of Prime Minister Netanyahu's wife, Sara, continued Sunday, with local media quoting her as telling police that one of the people leveling accusations against her was "a shitty cook." Netanyahu repeatedly denied the allegations that led to her indictment for misappropriation of around $100,000 in state funds to buy gourmet food, calling the witnesses against her "liars." The prime minister's wife was indicted last week along with Ezra Saidoff, a former deputy director general of the Prime Minister's Office, on charges of fraud and breach of trust. The two are accused of fraudulently charging some $100,000 in gourmet meals to the state's expense between 2010 and 2013. In further transcripts of Sara Netanyahu's testimony to Israel police during questioning, broadcast by Channel 10 news on Sunday, she told investigators that the probe was a disgrace, and that all the investigators are interested in is food, "what the prime minister ate." The transcripts added to those published Friday, in which she claimed that she was running an "austerity regime." When presented with testimony of witnesses, Netanyahu's response to almost every question was, "That is a lie." The investigator told her that witnesses had told police that she expected them to fulfill her every command no matter what. "That is completely false," she said. "Most of my requests they refused completely. They didn't do anything I asked." She insisted that she was more cautious about state funding than any other prime minister of Israel, and blamed Menny Naftali - the former Prime Minister's Residence manager, who last year successfully sued her for verbal and emotional abuse - for "wasting money like crazy." "Etti Haim (one of the cooks) told us that she was told that you wanted to conceal the fact that she was cooking," the investigator told Sara Netanyahu. "She is a liar and gross member of Manny Naftali's garbage group," Netanyahu said. "She circulated false stories about me. Everything she said about me was a lie. She's a shitty cook. She also claimed once that the prime minister loved her food and that is a lie." In the indictment, she and Saidoff are accused of violating laws that ban the ordering of prepared food from outside when a chef is already employed at the Prime Minister's Residence. Photos: The Netanyahus meeting Prince William last week, and the Netanyahus hosting Japan prime minister and his wife

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