{"id":29149,"date":"2018-02-20T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/20\/accusations-about-berlusconis-ties-to-sicilian-mafia-revived\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:24:25","slug":"accusations-about-berlusconis-ties-to-sicilian-mafia-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29149","title":{"rendered":"Accusations about Berlusconi&#039;s ties to Sicilian mafia revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro di Battista, main rival in Italy\u2019s election, launches scathing attack on former PMAccusations about Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s historic ties to a close associate of the Sicilian mafia are being revived by his main political rival as Italy heads into the final stretch of campaigning before the general election on 4 March.Alessandro di Battista, a top official in the Five Star Movement, asked followers on Twitter to share his scathing takedown of the former prime minister, delivered at a rally earlier this month, in which he cited a court ruling against a former longtime aide to Berlusconi and the founder of Forza Italia, Marcello Dell\u2019Utri, who is in jail because of his ties to the Cosa Nostra. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/20\/berlusconi-accusations-ties-cosa-nostra-revived-alessandro-di-battista-italy-election\" target=\"_blank\">Accusations about Berlusconi&#039;s ties to Sicilian mafia revived<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro di Battista, main rival in Italy\u2019s election, launches scathing attack on former PMAccusations about Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s historic ties to a close associate of the Sicilian mafia are being revived by his main political rival as Italy heads into the final stretch of campaigning before the general election on 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}