Legal Meleagris: David Mills – Guilty of Accepting Berlusconi Bribe
Nothing like a heady mix of lawyers, politics and corruption to get the crowds baying. David Mills, the high-flying international lawyer and estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, was sentenced to 4½ years in jail yesterday for accepting a $600,000 (£422,000) bribe from the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to give false evidence in corruption trials. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Mills is also the brother-in-law of Dame Barbara Mills, QC, the former Director of …
Nothing like a heady mix of lawyers, politics and corruption to get the crowds baying. David Mills, the high-flying international lawyer and estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, was sentenced to 4½ years in jail yesterday for accepting a $600,000 (£422,000) bribe from the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to give false evidence in corruption trials.
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Mills is also the brother-in-law of Dame Barbara Mills, QC, the former Director of Public Prosecutions and of the Serious Fraud Office!
In a statement, Mills said he was "very disappointed" at the verdict and hoped that he would be cleared on appeal…
February 18, 2009
4 1/2 years for that much. If you do something as risky as that surely you go for big bucks.
February 18, 2009
not if you wake up next to a horse’s head
February 18, 2009
surely he would be earning enough to make that bribe paltry