{"id":5047,"date":"2009-10-09T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2009-10-09T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:31:50","slug":"berlusconi-vows-to-fight-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/09\/berlusconi-vows-to-fight-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi vows to fight corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/56e42a22-b3f8-11de-98ec-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ Europe - Berlusconi vows to fight corruption charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Silvio Berlusconi, centre-right prime minister, said on Thursday he would defend himself in court against what he called &ldquo;absurd&rdquo; charges of corruption after the rejection of his immunity from prosecutionby the constitutional court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>I helped make the Panorama on David Mills - who has of course been found guilty of acting corruptly with Berlusconi. I was convinced by the evidence against Mills before his conviction: the case could have been made equally against Berlusconi but for his then legal immunity.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how he gets around it. If there's a defence it has to be a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Europe &#8211; Berlusconi vows to fight corruption charges. Silvio Berlusconi, centre-right prime minister, said on Thursday he would defend himself in court against<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/09\/berlusconi-vows-to-fight-corruption-charges\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}