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Berlusconi Fights to the End to Keep Senate Seat
Source: Associated Press
Berlusconi Fights to the End to Keep Senate Seat
ROME November 25, 2013 (AP)
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi is fighting to the very end, claiming that newly recovered documents from the U.S. will exonerate him from a devastating tax fraud conviction — even though the trial is over and his guilty verdict has been upheld by Italy's highest court.
Berlusconi's latest salvo Monday came 48 hours before the Senate is due to vote on whether to kick him out of Parliament because of the conviction. The 77-year-old media mogul has said his removal from Parliament would amount to a government coup, even though he has no role in the government.
Berlusconi is to elaborate on the documents later Monday, an event that has the air of a desperate performance by a master politician aimed at fending off the expulsion vote, or at least showing his electorate that he never gave up trying.
"These are documents that prove incontrovertibly that I had nothing to do with what I'm accused of," Berlusconi told his Mediaset TV channel.
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ROME November 25, 2013 (AP)
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi is fighting to the very end, claiming that newly recovered documents from the U.S. will exonerate him from a devastating tax fraud conviction — even though the trial is over and his guilty verdict has been upheld by Italy's highest court.
Berlusconi's latest salvo Monday came 48 hours before the Senate is due to vote on whether to kick him out of Parliament because of the conviction. The 77-year-old media mogul has said his removal from Parliament would amount to a government coup, even though he has no role in the government.
Berlusconi is to elaborate on the documents later Monday, an event that has the air of a desperate performance by a master politician aimed at fending off the expulsion vote, or at least showing his electorate that he never gave up trying.
"These are documents that prove incontrovertibly that I had nothing to do with what I'm accused of," Berlusconi told his Mediaset TV channel.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/berlusconi-fights-end-senate-seat-21001705
