Italy Court Sentences Berlusconi to 1 Year Jail in Wiretap Trial

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

@Reuters: Italy court sentences Berlusconi to 1 year in jail in wiretap trial: judge says in court #breaking

@BreakingNews: Former Italian PM Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year in prison; won't serve time until all appeals complete

Italy court sentences Berlusconi to 1 year jail in wiretap trial

Thu Mar 7, 2013 6:10am EST

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a one-year jail term for making public the taped contents of a confidential phone call in a case related to a 2005 banking scandal.

The sentence, which was read in court by the judge, came as Berlusconi is facing two other trials for alleged tax fraud and paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

Prosecutors in the wiretap case had asked for a one-year jail term for the media tycoon.

Berlusconi, who has denied any wrongdoing, can seek to have the decision overturned before a court of appeal.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9260FG20130307

[dipsydoodle]

1. Reuters link here

Link here for you : http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/us-italy-berlusconi-trial-idUSBRE9260FG20130307

Still the same ol' same ol' though :

Berlusconi, who has denied any wrongdoing, can seek to have the decision overturned before a court of appeal.

Under Italian law, he is not expected to serve any prison term until all possible appeal trials have been carried out.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. A step in the right direction

but I doubt that he will serve one day in prison. He will wiggle himself out of it again - unfortunately

[pampango]

7. "Italian sentencing guidelines indicate that people aged over 75 and with sentences of less than two

years do not have to actually go to prison."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/03/201337113357106411.html

You're right about him not going to jail.

[dipsydoodle]

3. BBC link here

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted and sentenced to a year in jail over an illegal wiretap.

He was accused of arranging for a police wiretap concerning a political rival to be leaked and published in a newspaper run by his brother.

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He is presently appealing against another conviction and faces two more verdicts in the coming weeks.

One of the rulings expected later this month is about tax fraud, and the other trial concerns allegations the he paid for sex with an underage prostitute.

In October last year, Mr Berlusconi was convicted in another tax fraud case and sentenced to a year in jail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21698802

What's actually needed are about 100 guilty charges with 1 year sentences to run consecutively.

[Bohemianwriter]

4. Does that mean....

He won't be eligible for the prime minister post as he will now be a jail bird?

GOOOOD! I hate that Mussolini lookalike!

[ck4829]

5. And if he became PM, he and his party would have tried to push immunity for him again

[panzerfaust]

6. Di non preoccuparsi, che può servire a Palazzo Chigi!

Palazzo Chig is the Italian PM's official residence (seen in background here behind Silvio and crack Italian troops) and in which he could serve the year of his sentence.


All will be well: Non abbiate paura, Silvio tornerà - a meno che non viene eletto Papa (unlikely, as he likes women).