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...longtime lawyer Cesare Previti served as Italian Defense Minister during Berlusconi's first term in 1994 before being convicted of corruption himself (and losing twice on appeal). During Berlusconi's second term (2001-06), Gaetano Pecorella, a former leftist, served as president of Parliament's Justice Commission, where he was instrumental in shepherding through new laws that helped shield Berlusconi from investigating magistrates...
...associates for allegedly bribing Rome judges in the mid-'80s returned to a Milan courtroom last Saturday. As usual, the defendant was not physically present. That doesn't mean he wasn't busy on the case. The Prime Minister had a two-hour meeting on Thursday with Gaetano Pecorella, a lawyer and legislator who divides his time between defending Berlusconi in the Milan case and chairing the lower house's justice committee - where he has been spearheading the passage of laws that directly affect the trials against his client and other political allies. Is this another glaring conflict of interest...
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