Bossi's son Riccardo gets 20-month jail term (2)

(ANSA) - Milan, March 14 - Riccardo Bossi, the eldest son of Northern League founder Umberto Bossi, was given a 20-month jail term by a Milan court on Monday after being found guilty of aggravated embezzlement for using party funds for personal use.
    It is the first sentence to handed out after a big scandal into the allegedly fraudulent use of the party's funding exploded in 2012. Jail terms of such a short length are usually suspended in Italy. Bossi was found guilty of embezzling some 158,000 euros of taxpayers' money which he put to various uses between 2009 and 2011 including paying personal debts, renting cars, paying university fees and his rent, maintaining his ex-wife, subscribing to pay-TV, paying gas and electricity bills and the vet for his dog. The prosecutor in the case had requested a one-year sentence.