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I ALMOST FORGOT this other pair of slight little things here: Lies About P2 (false testimony) The Court of Appeal of Venice, in 1990, declares Berlusconi guilty of perjury before the court in Verona regarding his membership in P2, but the crime is covered by the amnesty of 1989. Charged with false testimony, he is cleared in preliminary hearings. BRIBES TO THE GUARDIA DI FINANZA (corruption). Sentenced to 2 years and 9 months for all four alleged bribes. ALL IBERNIAN 1 (illegal funding to parties) Sentenced to 2 years and 4 months for the 23 billion paid abroad by Fininvest, via the All Ibernian account, to two personal Swiss deposits of Bettino Craxi. ALL IBERNIAN 2 (false accounting) On September 26, 2005, the II section of the Milan Court, before which Berlusconi and three other former Fininvest managers are accused of the substantial black funds accumulated by the group in a series of foreign accounts of All Ibernian, acquits all defendants "because the fact is no longer punishable by law," in other words, Silvio Berlusconi, between 1989 and 1994, falsified the accounts, but cannot be convicted because, having become Prime Minister, he decriminalized his crime. MEDUSA CINEMA (false accounting) Sentenced to 1 year and 4 months for 10 billion of black funds accumulated during the purchase of the Medusa film company, on a series of bearer accounts of Silvio Berlusconi. MACHERIO LAND (embezzlement, tax fraud, false accounting) Acquitted of embezzlement and tax fraud (for 4.4 billion lire paid in black by Silvio Berlusconi to the former owner of the land surrounding the villa in Macherio, where his wife Veronica and three children from his second marriage live), the statute of limitations applies for false accounting of two companies to which "Berlusconi undoubtedly contributed." LENTINI CASE (false accounting) The crime (10 billion paid in black from Milan to Torino for the purchase of player Gianluigi Lentini) is declared extinct due to the granting of general mitigating circumstances and the reduction of the limitation period introduced by the new law on false accounting. FININVEST BALANCES 1988-1992 (false accounting and embezzlement) On October 25, 2004, the Milan investigating judge Fabio Paparella archived for statute of limitations an investigation for false accounting and embezzlement, related to Fininvest's balances from 1988 to 1992, which sees Silvio Berlusconi, his brother Paolo, and other executives and former executives of the group such as Confalonieri, Sciascia, Foscale, and Vanoni under investigation. The file concerned the purchase of television rights by some Fininvest companies, such as Fininvest Service and Fininvest Sa, and other offshore companies like Rovares, Antares, and Stanhope, at inflated prices to create alleged black funds. In this case, the new "shortened" limitation terms introduced by the Berlusconi government’s reform of false accounting were decisive. CONSOLIDATED FININVEST (false accounting) Judge Fabio Paparella declared, also thanks to the new rules of the new law on false accounting, the alleged black funds of about 1500 billion lire accumulated by the Berlusconi group in 64 offshore companies not included in the group's consolidated balance sheet to be time-barred. LODO MONDADORI (judicial corruption) Acquitted by the investigating judge, the Cavalier escapes in appeal only thanks to general mitigating circumstances: the crime is declared time-barred by the Milan Court of Appeals and later by the Court of Cassation. SME-ARIOSTO 1 (judicial corruption) The court presided over by Judge Francesco Castellano, on December 10, 2004, grants for the sixth time general mitigating circumstances to Berlusconi and declares the corruption of former head of the GIP of Rome Renato Squillante to be time-barred. SME-ARIOSTO 2 (false accounting) Following the new laws on false accounting, this charge also became time-barred.... TELEVISION RIGHTS (false accounting, tax fraud, embezzlement).... In 2006, t