Latest Breaking News

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:22 PM Nov 2013

Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi

Source: BBC News

The Italian Senate has voted to expel ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament with immediate effect over his conviction for tax fraud.

Berlusconi, who has dominated politics for 20 years, could now face arrest over other criminal cases as he has lost his immunity from prosecution.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25128115

18 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi (Original Post) dipsydoodle Nov 2013 OP

About bloody time (nt) muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #1

It would be great Helen Borg Nov 2013 #6

I'd pay money to see that. 47of74 Nov 2013 #12

good! hrmjustin Nov 2013 #2

So, that will delay his re-election, what? Kelvin Mace Nov 2013 #3

He can't run for 6 Years PeoViejo Nov 2013 #5

Oh, come on... Kelvin Mace Nov 2013 #8

No wonder Shrub liked that SOB. 47of74 Nov 2013 #10

Sic semper fascisti Jack Rabbit Nov 2013 #4

Finalmente! Golden Raisin Nov 2013 #7

Unexpected appearance of sanity. Thank goodness. n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2013 #9

Everyone I came across in my travels to Italy could not stand that SOB. 47of74 Nov 2013 #11

Good-bye and good riddance Mr. Bunga bunga davidpdx Nov 2013 #13

Silvio Berlusconi's girlfriend calls on Pope Francis to help clear his name muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #14

Can't see the Pope approving of his dreadful antics. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #15

Last pope maybe. Pope Francis will not do anything for this scumbag. Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #18

Silvio Berlusconi paid off witnesses, says Italian court. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #16

About damn time suffragette Nov 2013 #17

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

1. About bloody time (nt)

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:23 PM

Nov 2013

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)

6. It would be great

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 02:57 PM

Nov 2013

to see this pig behind bars!

47of74

(18,470 posts)

12. I'd pay money to see that.

Reply to Helen Borg (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 07:00 PM

Nov 2013

The Italian people have a special place in my heart so it pains me to see what he and his ilk put Italy through.

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. good!

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:59 PM

Nov 2013

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

3. So, that will delay his re-election, what?

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 02:00 PM

Nov 2013

Six months?

PeoViejo

(2,178 posts)

5. He can't run for 6 Years

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 02:52 PM

Nov 2013

Good Riddance.

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

8. Oh, come on...

Reply to PeoViejo (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 04:51 PM

Nov 2013

Laws of for OTHER people. People not named Silvio Berlusconi.

Jeebus but this man is such a pervy little creep!

47of74

(18,470 posts)

10. No wonder Shrub liked that SOB.

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 06:53 PM

Nov 2013

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)

4. Sic semper fascisti

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 02:51 PM

Nov 2013

Now, forward to true democracy.

Golden Raisin

(4,609 posts)

7. Finalmente!

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 04:02 PM

Nov 2013

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

9. Unexpected appearance of sanity. Thank goodness. n/t

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 05:22 PM

Nov 2013

47of74

(18,470 posts)

11. Everyone I came across in my travels to Italy could not stand that SOB.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 06:59 PM

Nov 2013

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

13. Good-bye and good riddance Mr. Bunga bunga

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 09:24 PM

Nov 2013

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

14. Silvio Berlusconi's girlfriend calls on Pope Francis to help clear his name

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 03:27 PM

Nov 2013

The 28-year-old girlfriend of Silvio Berlusconi has called on Pope Francis to grant her an audience so she can fight to clear the expelled senator's name.

In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".

"I am appealing to Pope Francis. An appeal for him to receive me and hear Berlusconi's story," she was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
...
Her declaration is not the first time the Vatican has surfaced as a perhaps unlikely source of salvation for a man who is, among other things, appealing against a conviction of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and then abusing his office to cover it up.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/28/silvio-berlusconi-pope-francis-vatican-italy

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

15. Can't see the Pope approving of his dreadful antics.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #14)

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 04:04 PM

Nov 2013

Probably tell him to fuck off.

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)

18. Last pope maybe. Pope Francis will not do anything for this scumbag.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #14)

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 03:46 PM

Nov 2013

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

16. Silvio Berlusconi paid off witnesses, says Italian court.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 11:24 AM

Nov 2013

An Italian court has accused former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his lawyers of tampering with evidence by paying off witnesses in a trial related to his notorious "bunga bunga" parties.

Citing testimony and telephone wiretaps, the Milan court said Berlusconi convened about a dozen young women at his Milan mansion on 15 January 2011 to meet his lawyers after the women's homes were searched as part of a police investigation into the parties.

From then on, the judges wrote, the women each received €2,500 (£2,000) every month from Berlusconi and subsequently offered unusually identical testimony in court, denying the parties had sexual overtones.

The court made the accusation in explaining its decision to convict three of Berlusconi's former associates of procuring girls to prostitute themselves at the parties.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/silvio-berlusconi-paid-witnesses-says-court

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

17. About damn time

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 01:23 PM

Nov 2013

K&R

Reply to this discussion