With her acquittal on charges of corruption and one count of fraud, the Milan Court of Appeal, at the end of the "Mensa dei Poveri" case trial, significantly reduced the first-instance sentence handed down to former Forza Italia MEP Lara Comi, reducing it from 4 years and 2 months to 1 year, suspended, and a €500 fine.
The former politician burst into tears immediately after the ruling was read. The Court recognized the mitigating circumstance of compensation equivalent to the aggravating circumstance for Lara Comi.
The second-instance judges handed down sentences against 14 defendants, upholding the acquittal of former FI deputy coordinator for Lombardy and former Milan city councilor Pietro Tatarella.
Former Forza Italia MP Diego Sozzani was acquitted (the court sentenced him to one year and one month), and the sentences for businessman Daniele D'Alfonso were reduced from six and a half years to five years and two months, and for Giuseppe Zingale, former director general of Afol Metropolitana, from two years to one year and six months.
(Unioneonline)