Tax evasion in Italy is like eating Pasta - everyone does it.
You want lots of sex, Silvio? You’ll have tons now!!
Sentenced to jail for 4 years.
Must stay out of politics for 3 years.
Gotta love Italians.
Was he directly involved in this plot? Does he actually run the company while he is PM? That is strange, maybe they need blind trusts.
Bunga Bunga parties aren’t going to be as much fun now Silvio.....
Let’s be honest about what this really is: punishment for not allowing the German-European Empire to take over his country on his watch.
Wait for them to do this to a socialist.
This is another example of how judges make politics here in Italy.
Berlusconi was just a rich and successful businesman till he decided to get into politics in 1994.
Since then, regardless of the fact that he was the premier or the leader of the opposition, he had at least a new court case every year. It was always sentenced not guilty in the end but few times he was candemned first and then vindicated in the appeal (Like Amanda Knox, ring any bell?).
But what’s more important italian liberal media like “La Repubblica” had the chance to keeps his trials in the headlines the whole time. That’s the way it works.
Just yesterday Berlusconi annunced he won’t run in the 2013 election. Probably the judges didn’t bother to change the sentence, the appeal court will take care of it (sarcasm).
say Hi to the quake officials.