Word: berlusconi
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...respect with then Mafia "boss of bosses" Salvatore Riina. Andreotti, who is currently a Senator for Life, was definitively absolved of the charges, and there was never any corroborating evidence of the smooch. More recently, Italian Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, one of former center-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's closest aides, was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison for colluding with Cosa Nostra. Dell'Utri, who is free while appealing the decision, denies any wrongdoing and was re-elected to the Senate last month. Palermo prosecutor Antonio Ingroia says the lack of national outrage over the case...
...ELECTED. Giorgio Napolitano, 80, as the 11th President of Italy; in Rome. Blocked by outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition, which saw the former communist as too left-wing, Napolitano secured a majority backing for his appointment by Italy's Parliament after three failed ballots. As head of state, one of his first tasks will be to invite incoming Prime Minister Romano Prodi to form a new government...
...Italian politician is so despised by his cinematic nemeses that they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent none other than Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Premier, who last month lost his bid for re-election after five years in office. But Moretti's entry at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director...
...government's standing has also been buffeted by multiple scandals. His deputy, John Prescott, was exposed as having an affair with his appointments secretary. The husband of Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, is alleged to have taken bribes from outgoing Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Home Secretary Charles Clarke was forced out when it was revealed that his department had ignored repeated warnings that dangerous foreign prisoners were being released when their sentences were up rather than being considered for deportation. And Scotland Yard is examining whether Labour Party figures may have effectively sold places in the House of Lords...
...Happy now?" SILVIO BERLUSCONI, outgoing Prime Minister of Italy, to the left-wing paper L'Unita after resigning and paving the way for Romano Prodi, the center-left leader, to form a new government. Berlusconi held out for three weeks after Italy's election before conceding defeat...