Silvio Berlusconi - I believe him, don't you

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I believe him... don't you?

If I had such a position of wealth and power... and had pretty girls around me all the time , I would definitely keep it in my pants. Particularly in a culture that expects the rich to have many affairs and it is accepted. Not me... no way.



Silvio Berlusconi: 'scenes of a sexual nature' never took place at bunga bunga
Silvio Berlusconi stood up in an Italian court on Friday to insist that "scenes of a sexual nature" never took place at his so-called "bunga-bunga" parties.

By Nick Squires, Rome
1:41PM BST 19 Oct 2012
The former Italian prime minister made a rare appearance in the court in Milan where he is on trial for abuse of office and paying for sex with an alleged under-age prostitute, an erotic dancer nicknamed Ruby the Heart Stealer who was 17 at the time.

The charges carry a potential prison sentence of 15 years but both he and the teenager, now 18, have denied that they ever slept together.

"I can exclude with absolute certainty that there were ever scenes of a sexual nature," he told the court's three female judges.

"Everything happened in front of the staff and at times my children too came in to say hello," he added. He has five grown-up children from two marriages, both of which ended in divorce.

Models and showgirls who have given evidence in the trial described how young women would dress up as nuns and police officers and perform strip teases and pole dances for the then prime minister at his luxury mansion in Arcore, outside Milan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... bunga.html

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He will never see the inside of gaol. What a clevr scumbag... don't you love him.

Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, has been sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion and banned from holding public office for three years.


BUT... there is more.....

His lawyers immediately appealed and, given their client's record of running down the legal clock or winning appeals, the colourful 76-year-old politician and tycoon is unlikely to spend time behind bars in the near future, if at all.The statute of limitations in the case is set to expire sometime next year.

Defence lawyers Piero Longo and Niccolo Ghedini denounced the verdict as "incredible".

"It is to be hoped that in the appeals court there will be a different atmosphere," they said, describing the decision by the Milan court as "totally divorced from all judicial logic".

The sentence was heavier than the three years and eight months requested by prosecutors, and was the longest of the four Berlusconi has received so far in a career marked by marathon legal battles.

The judges have yet to release their official explanation of their verdict, and Berlusconi's lawyers did not comment immediately.

Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -jail.html

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