The Nfc website run by journalist Yoav Yitzchak ran an article Thursday on the benefits that United States businessman Moshe (Morris) Talansky received from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Yitzchak, who has pursued criminal suspicions against Olmert for years, said police have been looking in the wrong places.

Police have looked for concrete things that Talansky may have received from Olmert in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. However, according to Yitzchak, the most important thing Talansky received was a boost in status that allowed him to collect huge sums from US donors.

As someone who was known to be close to Jerusalem’s mayor and who was trusted to work on behalf of development projects in the city, Talansky was able to gather much more money than he could have otherwise, Yitzchak said. In order to figure out what benefit Talansky got from his deals with Olmert, he said, police must determine how much money Talansky gathered and from whom, how much money he kept for himself, and how much was passed on to Olmert.