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12-10-2004, 12:46 PM
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Jack Burton
 Join Date: July 19, 2003
Location: an expat living in France
Age: 38
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been cleared of corruption charges. Mr Berlusconi had been accused of bribing judges in the 1980s to favour his business interests. He was acquitted on one count, and on the other judges in Milan ruled that the alleged offence happened too long ago for charges to be pressed. The four-year trial was the first time a serving Italian prime minister had been tried in a criminal court. He has always said he was the victim of a politically-motivated judicial witch-hunt. State prosecutors had been demanding an eight-year jail term should he have been found guilty. Mr Berlusconi only attended court three times during the four-year legal process, The trial was suspended last summer after parliament passed a controversial law giving Mr Berlusconi immunity from prosecution. But the constitutional court later overturned the ruling.
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12-10-2004, 02:06 PM
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Symbol of Moradin
 Join Date: June 5, 2002
Location: Slovenia,Ljubljana
Age: 36
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I have seen it on the news. What can I say? I think that he is definitly linked to mafia so that is the main reason that he was let free for so many times.
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12-10-2004, 04:01 PM
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40th Level Warrior
  Join Date: April 15, 2002
Location: Utrecht The Netherlands
Age: 58
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He's not linked to the mafia, he IS the mafia.
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12-10-2004, 05:05 PM
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Symbol of Moradin
Join Date: June 5, 2002
Location: Slovenia,Ljubljana
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I know, I know. But it just sounds nicer when you say that he's just linked to it not it.
 IMO he will never be charged of anything.
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