Italian Courts Consider Putting Berlusconi on Trial

by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR

An Italian court is holding preliminary hearings to decide whether Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills should stand trial on corruption charges. Milan prosecutors have accused Berlusconi of paying Mills $600,000 for giving false testimony during two trials where Berlusconi was accused of corruption.

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• Morning Edition, March 31, 2006