Berlusconi proved to have bribed judge but avoids prison
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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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MILAN, Dec 10 - An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to press a conviction.
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Italy is awaiting the verdict in the long-running corruption trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Three judges in Milan are deliberating and the verdict may be announced later on Friday.
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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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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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An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to press a conviction.
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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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Berlusconi, a billionaire media mogul, is accused of bribing Rome judges in the late 1980s and again in 1991 to win favorable rulings for his Fininvest business empire.
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An Italian prosecutor asked a court on Friday to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for bribing judges as the prime minister's four-year corruption trial reached its closing stages.
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Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport Tessa Jowell said she was convinced that her estranged husband was innocent of claims that he took bribes from former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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MILAN, Italy  - A court cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial Friday, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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An Italian prosecutor on Friday asked a court to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in prison for allegedly bribing judges.
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An attempt by Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to delay his corporate fraud trial suffered a setback on Wednesday with a decision that the trial judge should stay on the case.
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Just 24 hours after Silvio Berlusconi escaped a conviction for corruption, one of his closest allies was jailed yesterday for colluding with the Mafia.
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A Milan court yesterday went behind closed doors to consider a verdict in the trial of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, who is accused of corrupting judges in a case involving his
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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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A judge in Argentina has paved the way for trying two notorious figures from the former military government.