Then I guess the scandalous trials and political intrigue was really all just a bunch of BS, huh?
"Berlusconi bribery case thrown out over statute of limitations" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York Times, February 26, 2012
ROME - A court in Milan threw out the bribery case against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday, saying that the statute of limitations had expired and continuing his long run of seeming invulnerability to conviction....
Berlusconi is also on trial in three other cases, facing various charges, including paying for sex with an underage woman, and he was recently placed under investigation on charges of fraud at a subsidiary of his broadcasting empire.
The verdict will be closely scrutinized in Italy, where Berlusconi has dominated political life for nearly 20 years and continues to play a prominent role behind the scenes in supporting the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti, who supplanted him last November....
Translation: The New World Order austerity wasn' going to make it through with his ugly mug pushing it.
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