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Olympic minister's husband gets jail sentence

David Mills, the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, was given a jail sentence today for accepting a bribe of $600,000 (at the time £350,000) from Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, to give false evidence on his behalf in corruption trials.

Judge Nicoletta Gandus sentenced Mills to four years and six months in jail and ordered him to pay legal costs of €25,000 (£22,000), though Mills hopes to avoid prison by stringing out the appeals process.

Mills, 64, who is said to have used the bribe to pay off a loan guaranteed by a home that he owned with Ms Jowell in London, has denied any wrongdoing. Ms Jowell was cleared of breaking ministerial rules after Tony Blair, the then Prime Minister, and Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, accepted her explanation that her husband had not told her about the money until four years later.

Yesterday Ms Jowell said: “This is a terrible blow for David, and although we are separated I have never doubted his innocence.”

Full story here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5753034.ece

She denies any knowledge of wrongdoing at the time.

I think it smacks of the arrogance that is endemic within New Labour. Barely a week goes by without another story surfacing about one of them, or their cohorts, with their noses in the trough.
Mort

Re: Olympic minister's husband gets jail sentence

raveydavey wrote:
David Mills, the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, was given a jail sentence today for accepting a bribe of $600,000 (at the time £350,000) from Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, to give false evidence on his behalf in corruption trials.

Judge Nicoletta Gandus sentenced Mills to four years and six months in jail and ordered him to pay legal costs of €25,000 (£22,000), though Mills hopes to avoid prison by stringing out the appeals process.

Mills, 64, who is said to have used the bribe to pay off a loan guaranteed by a home that he owned with Ms Jowell in London, has denied any wrongdoing. Ms Jowell was cleared of breaking ministerial rules after Tony Blair, the then Prime Minister, and Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, accepted her explanation that her husband had not told her about the money until four years later.

Yesterday Ms Jowell said: “This is a terrible blow for David, and although we are separated I have never doubted his innocence.”

Full story here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5753034.ece

She denies any knowledge of wrongdoing at the time.

I think it smacks of the arrogance that is endemic within New Labour. Barely a week goes by without another story surfacing about one of them, or their cohorts, with their noses in the trough.



Whilst I agree with that, I think it applies to all politicians, of whatever stripe - we're hearing about Labour more cause they're in power.
wewantourdarbyback

Gotta love the difference between here and the Yanks, they love their potential politicians, hype them up and have great expectations. We don't trust any of them

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