Berlusconi may be ordered to help elderly disabled - report
Ex-premier needs to serve year remaining on tax-fraud sentence
08 April, 19:31
(ANSA) - Rome, April 8 - Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi may be
asked to serve the remaining year of a four-year tax-fraud
conviction by doing community service at a home for disabled
elderly people, the website of Avvenire, the daily of Italian
bishops conference CEI, reported Tuesday.A Milan judge is set to decide on Thursday whether Berlusconi should serve the sentence under house arrest or do community service.
The 77-year-old billionaire is too old to actually go to jail here.
The three other years of the sentence were covered by an amnesty. According to Avvenire, a report prepared by judicial office recommended that a Milan court tell Berlusconi to work one day a week at a home for the elderly.
