Former economy undersecretary
and ex-People of Freedom (PdL) coordinator Nicola Cosentino on
Wednesday got seven and a half years in jail for extortion and
illegal competition with mafia links. His brothers, Giovanni and
Antonio, got nine and a half years and five years, four months
respectively. The case against former Caserta prefect and ex-PdL
MP Maria Elena Stasi timed out. In November a court in Caserta
sentenced Cosentino, to nine years in prison and banned him from
holding public office for life for colluding with the Neapolitan
Camorra mafia. Cosentino - who was elected MP four times between
1996-2008 as a member of three-time premier's now-defunct PdL -
was sentenced to four years in prison last June for corrupting a
prison guard.
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