Former centre-right Rome mayor Gianni
Alemanno got a suspended sentence of one year and 10 months in
jail Friday for influence peddling and illegal party funding in
one branch of the sprawling political-business racketeering case
in the Italian capital dubbed 'Middle World'.
Alemanno, who will be 64 next month, is former hard right
politician who was Rome mayor for Silvio Berlusconi's
now-defunct centre-right People of Freedom party from 2008 to
2013.
He voiced "bitterness over an unjust sentence" and said he would
appeal to the supreme court, which had sent the case back to the
second appeals level after quashing a former acquittal of the
former official.
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