Word: berlusconis
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Imagine if you will, federal prosecutors charging U.S. President George W. Bush with corruption on October 3, 2004. That's roughly what happened Friday in Milan, where magistrates requested an indictment against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi exactly 30 days before his April 9 bid for reelection...
...Berlusconi has won two times at the polls - in 1994 and 2001 -despite a range of accusations of illicit business dealings hanging over him. He has never received a final guilty verdict in Italy's three-stage appeal process, though several cases were eventually shelved because the statute of limitations had expired. This time, prosecutors accuse the 69-year-old media mogul of ordering the payment in 1997 of some $600,000 to British lawyer David Mills ? a onetime business associate of Berlusconi's who helped the magnate set up offshore accounts ? in exchange for Mills' false testimony...
...Diego's striker, the introverted, behind-the-scenes power broker to Diego's extroverted, genial public persona. (A recent cover story in Capital, an Italian business magazine, was titled "When the Secret Is Your Brother.") While Diego will make headlines sparring in the press with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi or hobnobbing with high-profile friends like Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Andrea is content to talk soccer scores and sneaker styles with production managers back at the factory?many of whom have known him since...
...Jesus Christ of politics." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, describing himself as a martyr for his nation. He has also compared himself to Churchill and Napoleon in recent weeks while seeking re-election...
...Embassy and changing into a pink suit, the First Lady went in her black Cadillac limousine - with District of Columbia plates, but not the hood flags that adorn the President's limousine - to the 16th Century Villa Madama for a leisurely lunch with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. During the photo session, the notably bronzed Berlusconi sucked in his midriff. Then he and Mrs. Bush went into lunch and the press milled about before being taken to a room with casserole, Coke and a few electrical outlets...