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Berlusconi complains to Obama over sex probe
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 27, 2011 11:30am |
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| Author | msnbc.com news services |
| News Date | Friday, May 27, 2011 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ROME — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has taken his claim that he is being persecuted by leftist judges to the G-8 summit, telling a clearly perplexed President Barack Obama that in Italy they represent "almost a dictatorship."
His comments carried on Italian TV news broadcasts from Deauville, France, set off a barrage of criticism Friday from Italian magistrates and his political opponents.
Italians are used to such statements from Berlusconi, but Obama seemed surprised when he was buttonholed by the Italian premier.
"We have presented a justice reform that is fundamental to us. In Italy, we have almost a dictatorship of leftist judges," microphones picked up Berlusconi telling Obama, through an interpreter.
Berlusconi is currently a defendant in four cases, three related to his business interests and one on charges of paying for sex with an underage Moroccan prostitute. He denies wrongdoing. |
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