{"id":186979,"date":"2013-08-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/01\/silvio-is-going-to-jail\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:44:00","slug":"silvio-is-going-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/01\/silvio-is-going-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvio is Going to Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s highest court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-23542525\">affirmed his jail sentence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Italy&#8217;s highest court has upheld a prison sentence given to former PM Silvio Berlusconi for tax evasion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The court also ordered a further judicial review on whether he should be banned from holding public office.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an emotional video statement, Berlusconi denounced the decision as &#8220;based on nothing, and which deprives me of my freedom and political rights&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The sentence cannot be appealed against further but Berlusconi, 76, is unlikely to go to jail because of his age.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The ruling by Rome&#8217;s Court of Cassation came after a three-day hearing. Berlusconi was not in court.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The former prime minister was sentenced to four years in prison at the conclusion of the trial in October last year, though this was automatically reduced to a year under a 2006 pardon law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Berlusconi is likely to serve house arrest or carry out community service.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, this spells the end of his political career.<\/p>\n<p>Now go and break up his television monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s highest court has affirmed his jail sentence: Italy&#8217;s highest court has upheld a prison sentence given to former PM Silvio Berlusconi for tax evasion.The court also ordered a further judicial review on whether he should be banned from holding public office.In an emotional video statement, Berlusconi denounced the decision as &#8220;based on nothing, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,984,972,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-europe","category-justice","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}