<p style="text-align:start;" size="1" _root="[object Object]" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="color:#000000">Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty of spending almost twice the maximum legal amount of €22.5 million ($26 million) on his 2012 re-election bid—which he eventually lost to Francois Hollande.</span></p>
