Berlusconi Ally Convicted of Mafia Ties
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A close political ally of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison.
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John Gotti's older brother was convicted Wednesday of trying to have Mafia turncoat Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano killed as payback for his testimony against the Dapper Don.
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The Italian government on Wednesday sped  up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the  corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.
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Italian authorities say they have discovered a conspiracy to kill a top anti-mafia politician
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A court in Milan today cleared the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, of corruption charges, but dropped a key corruption charge against him because time had run out.
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Milan judges acquitted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption after reducing the statute of limitations for the charge, ending a decade of legal battles that threatened his leadership.
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Italy's highest criminal court acquitted former Premier Giulio Andreotti Friday of charges he colluded with the Mafia during a long political career, the final judgment in a decade-long case that had gripped ...
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An Italian court found a close political ally and business associate of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi guilty of colluding with the Mafia, and sentenced him on Saturday to nine years in prison.
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Italy's supreme court on Friday acquitted former premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges related to the sale of food group SME, media reports said.
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Italy's highest court upholds a ruling that cleared ex-PM Giulio Andreotti of having colluded with the Mafia.
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Rome: Anti-Mafia judges in Italy have ordered the arrests on Monday of 52 people, including a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, for widespread collusion with organised crime gangs ...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi escaped a potentially devastating jail sentence when a Milan court cleared him of corruption charges after a four-year trial, a verdict which he hailed as "better late than never".
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Italy's top court Friday definitively cleared former prime minister Giulio Andreotti of charges that he had links to the Mafia.
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A Sicilian court sentenced a key political aide and confidant of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to nine years in jail for associating with the Mafia.
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Italy&#39;s billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, faces the most testing judgment of his political life today, when three judges in Milan are expected to decide whether he is guilty of corruption.
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Silvio Berlusconi, the Houdini of European politics, escaped jail last night on charges of bribing Roman judges. At the end of the Prime Minister&#39;s trial in Milan, judges cleared him
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi, an important ally for President Bush in Iraq, was acquitted of corruption charges that have dogged his government from the start. The verdict was a boost to the conservative leader ahead of 2006 elections. Berlusconi, 68, has long insisted he was the victim of left-wing prosecutors.