Rome prosecutors on Monday
arraigned the husband of prominent Forza Italia (FI) politician
Alessandra Mussolini on underage prostitution charges.
Floriani faces one to six years in prison if found guilty
of being a client of two teen prostitutes working out of an
apartment in the upscale Parioli neighborhood.
Eight ringleaders of the teen bordello have already been
convicted. These include barman and pimp Mirko Ieni, who was
sentenced to ten years behind bars. Army Corporal Major Nunzio
Pizzacalla got seven years and the mother of one of the teens
was sentenced to six years and loss of parental rights.
Eleven clients have so far plea bargained a year in prison,
while prosecutors are about to request that another 22 be
arraigned.
The investigation is continuing into another 30 alleged
clients of the teenaged hookers, including Nicola Bruno, son of
FI MP Donato Bruno.
Wiretaps last year revealed Mussolini's husband Floriani is
one of the suspected clients who contacted the girls most often.
Floriani, a former finance police officer, is
a manager at State-controlled national rail company
Trenitalia.
He has three children with his wife, who is the
granddaughter of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and has
recently served as chair of a parliamentary children's rights
committee.
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