Thursday, September 1, 2011

Italian businessman arrested over Berlusconi blackmail http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14751432

This article is discusses Prime Minister Berlusconi, On the BBC news website the article stated that Giampaolo Tarantini admitted he paid for escorts to attend the PM's so-called bunga bunga parties. Tarantini would bring over prostitutes to the Prime Ministers house but introduce them as his friends, later Tarantini blackmailed the Prime Minister. The police said that half million euros were extorted in exchange for telling investigators that the Prime Minister did not know that the women were prostitutes. The Prime Minister admits he payed money but only did it because he was helping a family in need. The article quotes him from the news magazine Panorama, "I helped someone and a family with children who found themselves and continue to find themselves in very serious financial difficulty, I didn't do anything illegal, I limited myself to helping a desperate man without asking for anything in exchange. That's how I'm made and nothing will change that." Prime Minister Berlusconi denies being blackmailed but he was only helping a family in need. I feel the Prime Minister was in-fact being blackmailed, but is denying the fact of it so he does not in any way get in trouble for sleeping with prostitutes since he already is suspected of sleeping with a 17 year old at his parties in Milan, Italy.

Josip

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1 comment:

  1. So, the PM pays a man $700,000, along with subsequent payments, out of the green-lined pockets of his heart. I don't understand how the businessman can be arrested if the blackmail was for a true cause. I'm glad he got some money out of it to secure his family, but the businessman shouldn't have been arrested. That's similar to the wikileaks character going to prison, a noble cause shut down by "law". The only thing that's missing from this story is drug charges. I mean, come on.. the PM has parties with prostitutes, evidently of all ages, and I'm to believe there is no table lined with hills of cocaine as seen in the movie "Blow". That's shocking.

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