16 January 2007

Looking out for number one

Former Italian Prime Minister and medial mogul Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills, estranged husband of New Labour minister Tessa Jowell, are on trail in Italy for fraud, embezzlement, false accounting and receipt of stolen goods. Yesterday a number of the charges that the two were facing were dropped by prosecutors.

"Why" you may ask. Because of a change to the law on the statute of limitations brought in whilst Mr. Berlusconi was in power. Sweet. Isn't he one of Dubya's buddies?

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