More for Berlusconi, this time hit by Mafia link claim
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Silvio Berlusconi faces more damage to his reputation with claims that he was directly linked to Mafia bosses and new disclosures about his private life in the memoirs of an escort girl who says that she was attacked and threatened after sleeping with him.
The Italian Prime Minister, who has lost his immunity from prosecution on two counts of corruption, could face further charges after a convicted Mafia hitman told magistrates that he had been the political protector of a Cosa Nostra godfather in the 1990s.
Gaspare Spatuzza, who became a pentito (turncoat) last year, told magistrates that the godfather, Giuseppe Graviano, had told him in 1994 — the year that Mr Berlusconi entered
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