“Investigators calculate that she and other family members accumulated about $24 million, mostly from shady land deals during Spain’s boom years. Searching her property, the police had to borrow a bill-counting machine from a local bank to help total up all the cash: $485,000.  At a time when Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal are imposing deficit-cutting austerity plans on their hard-pressed citizens, these revelations of widespread political corruption are stoking bitter resentment, destabilizing governments and undermining the credibility of the political class as a whole.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/world/europe/in-lean-years-after-boom-spains-graft-laid-bare.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130505&_r=1&&pagewanted=all

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