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Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi
Source: BBC News
The Italian Senate has voted to expel ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament with immediate effect over his conviction for tax fraud.
Berlusconi, who has dominated politics for 20 years, could now face arrest over other criminal cases as he has lost his immunity from prosecution.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25128115
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Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Nov 2013
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Silvio Berlusconi's girlfriend calls on Pope Francis to help clear his name
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2013
#14
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)1. About bloody time (nt)
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)6. It would be great
to see this pig behind bars!
47of74
(18,470 posts)12. I'd pay money to see that.
The Italian people have a special place in my heart so it pains me to see what he and his ilk put Italy through.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2. good!
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)3. So, that will delay his re-election, what?
Six months?
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)5. He can't run for 6 Years
Good Riddance.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)8. Oh, come on...
Laws of for OTHER people. People not named Silvio Berlusconi.
Jeebus but this man is such a pervy little creep!
47of74
(18,470 posts)10. No wonder Shrub liked that SOB.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)4. Sic semper fascisti
Now, forward to true democracy.
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)7. Finalmente!
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)9. Unexpected appearance of sanity. Thank goodness. n/t
47of74
(18,470 posts)11. Everyone I came across in my travels to Italy could not stand that SOB.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)13. Good-bye and good riddance Mr. Bunga bunga
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)14. Silvio Berlusconi's girlfriend calls on Pope Francis to help clear his name
The 28-year-old girlfriend of Silvio Berlusconi has called on Pope Francis to grant her an audience so she can fight to clear the expelled senator's name.
In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".
"I am appealing to Pope Francis. An appeal for him to receive me and hear Berlusconi's story," she was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
...
Her declaration is not the first time the Vatican has surfaced as a perhaps unlikely source of salvation for a man who is, among other things, appealing against a conviction of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and then abusing his office to cover it up.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/28/silvio-berlusconi-pope-francis-vatican-italy
In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".
"I am appealing to Pope Francis. An appeal for him to receive me and hear Berlusconi's story," she was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
...
Her declaration is not the first time the Vatican has surfaced as a perhaps unlikely source of salvation for a man who is, among other things, appealing against a conviction of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and then abusing his office to cover it up.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/28/silvio-berlusconi-pope-francis-vatican-italy
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)15. Can't see the Pope approving of his dreadful antics.
Probably tell him to fuck off.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)18. Last pope maybe. Pope Francis will not do anything for this scumbag.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)16. Silvio Berlusconi paid off witnesses, says Italian court.
An Italian court has accused former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his lawyers of tampering with evidence by paying off witnesses in a trial related to his notorious "bunga bunga" parties.
Citing testimony and telephone wiretaps, the Milan court said Berlusconi convened about a dozen young women at his Milan mansion on 15 January 2011 to meet his lawyers after the women's homes were searched as part of a police investigation into the parties.
From then on, the judges wrote, the women each received 2,500 (£2,000) every month from Berlusconi and subsequently offered unusually identical testimony in court, denying the parties had sexual overtones.
The court made the accusation in explaining its decision to convict three of Berlusconi's former associates of procuring girls to prostitute themselves at the parties.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/silvio-berlusconi-paid-witnesses-says-court
suffragette
(12,232 posts)17. About damn time
K&R