The deputy Speaker of the Senate,
Maurizio Gasparri of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI)
party, was acquitted Wednesday of embezzling 600,000 euros in
public funding earmarked for Berlusconi's now-defunct People of
Freedom (PdL) party. Prosecutors had said Gasparri used the
money for a life assurance policy in his name. Gasparri, who was
acquitted according to the maximum possible verdict, "the event
did not take place", said "I would have a lot of things to say
but I won't say them". His lawyers said the sentence was
"vindication" of the fact that he had done nothing wrong.
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