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   XPost: uk.legal   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1141204967.479007.275110@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   joseph.hutcheon@virgin.net writes   
      
   >John Youles wrote:   
   >   
   >> banana  wrote in message   
   >> :   
      
   >> > Ms Jowell made it clear to friends she was determined to fight for her   
   >> > cabinet career, and could produce documents showing Mr Berlusconi was   
   >> > not behind the "gift" of more than £350,000 in dollars that sparked the   
   >> > allegations.   
   >   
   >One wonders why she hasn't do so before now, since such documents would   
   >presumably clear her husband of the charge that he was bribed by   
   >Berlusconi.   
      
   AIUI David Mills hasn't even said why the jailed shipping tycoon who he   
   says paid him the money, did so.   
      
   >> Whoever the "gift" was from, I would have thought that the Inland Revenue   
   >would   
   >> be interested.  Tax evasion is a crime, after all.   
   >   
   >That need not implicate Jowell, who could claim that she simply signed   
   >a document without fully understanding the implications.   
      
   What other documents has the minister for casinos, television contracts,   
   Wembley stadium, and the use of large amounts of concrete in   
   constructing the Olympic Village, signed without knowing what she was   
   doing?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)