Italian Senator Marcello Dell’Utri, a co-founder of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s political party, gives a presse conference in Milan on June, 29 2010 after the Palermo Appeals Court upheld his conviction of mafia association for which he was judged in 2004 but reduced his sentence from nine to seven years. In a court hearing last year a Mafia turncoat said he heard Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Graviano claim in 1994 that the Sicilian Mafia had “the country in their hands” thanks to the help of their political contacts, Berlusconi and Dell’Utri. AFP PHOTO / DAMIEN MEYER (Photo credit should read DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images)
