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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A COURT has cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial, sparing Italy the potential embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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A court began deliberations Thursday in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's long-running corruption trial, with the billionaire politician at risk of becoming the first sitting Italian leader to be convicted on criminal charges.
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Judges in the corruption trial of Silvio  Berlusconi withdrew on Thursday to decide their verdict and the  prime minister said he was confident he would not be convicted.
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Prosecutors urged a court Friday to convict Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption in connection with business dealings and send him to prison for eight years.
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Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London bridge and known as "God's banker" for his Vatican links.
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A South African mercenary was today found guilty of leading the advance party in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that was allegedly bankrolled by Sir Mark Thatcher.
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An Italian prosecutor says that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi deserves an eight-year prison term for bribing judges. Berlusconi was not in court for to hear the request, the BBC reports.
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A CLOSE political ally and business associate of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was jailed for nine years yesterday for colluding with the Mafia.
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A close political ally of Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison in a fresh embarrassment to Italy's conservative government.
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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.
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Juventus doctor Riccardo Agricola has been found guilty of administering the banned drug EPO to the club&#39;s players during the 1990s.
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The confirmation came from a spokesman for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who described the killing as &quot;an act of barbarity&quot;.
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A look at some of the major cases against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi:
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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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Judges in the corruption trial of Silvio Berlusconi withdrew on Thursday to decide their verdict and the prime minister said he was confident he would not be convicted.
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Italy's top court on Friday definitively  cleared former prime minister Giulio Andreotti of charges that  he had been the Mafia's political godfather in the corridors of  power.