Prosecutor Wants Jail Time for Berlusconi

Kellanved

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Fri Nov-12-04 02:30 PM
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Prosecutor Wants Jail Time for Berlusconi

Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 02:31 PM by Kellanved

A state prosecutor called Friday on a Milan court to impose an eight-year jail sentence on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of bribing judges.

Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini said Berlusconi had kept up regular payments to judges in Rome to help his company Fininvest in a corporate takeover battle stemming from the mid-1980s.

The 68-year-old prime minister was not in court as the prosecutor summed up in what's been called the SME case.

Berlusconi stand's accused of bribing judges to block the takeover of the semi-state food group SME by a

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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1395039,00.html

or:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4007441.stm

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genius

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Fri Nov-12-04 02:46 PM
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1. Now could he get Bush next?

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gWbush is Mabus

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Fri Nov-12-04 02:51 PM
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2. "Big" Dick Cheney did some bribing of his own

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Kellanved

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Fri Nov-12-04 04:50 PM
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3. I doubt it, but seeing Berluscini in jail would be great start

Bush, Blair, Berlusconi: what is wrong with the letter 'B' ?

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