Berlusconi set to appeal against tax fraud conviction

[Gerald]

Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.

The appeal will be lodged by 10 November, reports said, and could take several years.

Mr Berlusconi and others were convicted of inflating the price of distribution rights bought by his Mediaset group to avoid paying taxes.

On Friday a Milan court sentenced him to four years but later cut it to one.

The media mogul was also barred from holding office for five years.

A furious Mr Berlusconi later went on national television to condemn the sentence as "intolerable judicial harassment".

He has long complained that he is being persecuted by left-leaning judges in Milan.

"It is a political, incredible and intolerable judgement," Mr Berlusconi said on Italia 1 - one of the TV stations he owns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20106777


Note: 27 October 2012 Last updated at 01:15 GMT

[STEED]

WHY?

Under their own law he is too old to bang up even if he is not too old to bang some young chick.

[Catfish]

That he's too old to bang up depends on a law he himself introduced. Among some other laws that saved his a$$ until now, like expiring accusation for tax crimes or molesting children -
He was safe from it as a politician, being immune as a state servant until leaving office. Now it all has expired lol.

Seriously that this monkey of a man could remain in politics so long as the Leader of Italy (his words) can only be justified by his controling of 80 percent of the italian media.

Berlusconi is a one-man-Mafia.

[Gerald]

Of course, the judgment under appeal, and do not be surprised if he is acquitted.