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Friday, October 26, 2012

International Berlusconi Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:53 AM

Al Jazeera:

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, has been sentenced by a court in Milan to four years in prison for tax fraud.

Friday's verdict came just days after he announced he would not run in the coming elections.

What Berlusconi needs right now is an emergency escape exit like the one in his cave.

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Italian courts are run by lunatics. They actually convicted scientists for not predicting an earthquake. Lunatics.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on October 26, 2012 at 8:12 AM

I'm constantly amazed that Italy is the world's 7th largest economy.

Posted by care bear on October 26, 2012 at 8:56 AM

I love that cave pool SO MUCH.

Pretty much everything else about the First-World economic/political environment of the last thirty years is wrong, but at least it gave us this.

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on October 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM

Right now the Chinese Supreme Leader's family is worth billions of US dollars.

I wonder if his family will be sentenced when Mitt goes to jail for tax fraud?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM

I would say that this is America's future if Romney wins the election, but I have a hard time seeing how a prosecution for tax fraud would ever get off the ground here.

Posted by Cascadian on October 26, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Thank God.

Posted by I have always been... east coaster on October 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM