On the eve of her trial for alleged negligence over a $425 million government payout to a French tycoon while serving as France’s finance minister, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde sounded confident that she would be exonerated.
“Negligence is a non-intentional offense,” Lagarde, a lawyer by training, told the national public television channel France 2 on Sunday night. “We’re all negligent at something at one point or another in our lives. I tried to do my work the best I could within the limits of what I knew.”
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