A member of the Italian Carbiniere stands by an empty cell in the Pagliarelli prison in Palermo on June 29, 2010. The Palermo Appeals Court on June 29, 2010 upheld a conviction of mafia association for Senator Marcello Dell’Utri, a co-founder of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s political party, 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 / Marcello PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)
