Berlusconi: Watch this guy go

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Thursday June 27, 2002 13:58

by blisset

Berlusconi: Watch this guy go

Berlusconi: Watch this guy go

Mark Crospin Miller reports this item from ROME via (AP)

"Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sued the authors of a best-selling book about the origins of his fortune for $9.7 million, news reports said Tuesday. Authors Marco Travaglio and Elio Veltri and their publisher were named in a lawsuit they received notice of Tuesday - more than a year after ``The Smell of Money'' was first published, the ANSA news agency said.

"The book, which alleges Berlusconi's empire was founded on mob money, had languished on bookshelves until Travaglio appeared on a TV talk show in the middle of last year's national election campaign.

"The book became an instant best-seller…."