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Berlusconi doing community service in lieu of prison helping the elderlyMilan court ruled that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will have to work for four consecutive hours at least once a week at the Fondazione Sacra Famiglia home for the elderly in Cesano Boscone just outside Milan. In 2013, the leader of the centre-right Forza Italia political party was found guilty of tax fraud. He was sentenced to four years in prison and banned from public office in what is being billed as a historical verdict.So why is he not in jail then, many people wonder?Firstly, the four-year sentence is reduced to one year because of the indulto (a general amnesty/pardon passed by Parliament in 2006) which applies to the case, and secondly, because he is too old to go to jail under standard Italian legal practice.
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