Reprieve for Berlusconi

Posted By Annie Lowrey Monday, November 16, 2009 - 1:25 PM Share

Reuters reports that an Italian judge has delayed the resumption of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud trial until January, at least. Why? "Pressing state business" -- that is, presiding over a U.N. summit on hunger in Rome.

But Berlusconi has not managed to delay the other criminal case pending against him and is due in court later in November. The magnate/bon vivant/political leader allegedly paid a prominent British lawyer $600,000 to testify falsely on his behalf in a 1997 corruption case. (David Mills, who accepted the bribe, has already been convicted and is currently appealing his jail sentence.)

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8:20 AM ET

November 18, 2009

Superficial sentence

As written in Italian newspaper "Il Giornale"
(URL: http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/mistero_mills_corrotto_senza_mazzette/18-02-2009/articolo-id=329782-page=0-comments=1)

"il pm Fabio De Pasquale l’ha accusato di reticenza, ma le testimonianze di Mills al processo All Iberian non furono contestate dall’accusa, bensì dalla difesa: Silvio Berlusconi, cioè, in primo grado fu condannato anche per quanto detto da Mills."

In my (superficial, of course) translation:
"The judge Fabio de Pasquale accused him (David Mills) of reticence, but the testimony of mills in All Iberian's process have been contested by defense, not by accuse: Silvio Berlusconi in the initial step was condamned by testimony of Mills. "

Then, Berlusconi bribe a man for to testimoning against him and not in favour of him?

 

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