The outgoing president of the United States Donald Trump has granted pardon to his former adviser Steve Bannon, accused of fraud, a few hours after his farewell to White House. Before leaving his post, the tycoon took the same action against others 72 people and also commuted the sentences of 70 other people. In total, therefore, the measures signed by Trump are 143, but among them neither the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, nor the ‘mole’ of the Nsa, Edward snowden. Deny the hypothesis that the president pardoned himself and his lawyer Rudolph Giuliani.
Among those pardoned by Trump is the Italian fixer Tommaso Buti, Florentine entrepreneur. Through his lawyer Valeria Calafiore Healy, Buti thanked Trump: “The provision of the American president – underlines his lawyer in a note – concerns hypothesized crimes against property occurred more than 20 years ago and for which the Italian entrepreneur was already processed in Italy and eventually acquitted by the Court of Appeal in 2007″.
from L’ chief strategist of the White House was arrested in August on charges, in competition with three other people, of online fundraising scam We Build The Wall, designed for the construction of the Wall on the border between the United States and Mexico. Federal prosecutors of Manhattan they accused him along with Brian Carbon phage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, its partners, of having “devised a scam against hundreds of thousands of donors” thanks to which they had been collected 25 million dollars.
Buti, on the other hand, was accused of more than 20 years ago financial fraud, but it is not never been convicted in the United States”. Entrepreneur in the field of luxury watches, also known for having founded the Fashion Cafè chain in New York in 1995 with members such as Claudia Schiffer e Naomi Campbell. The model was then replicated in New Orleans, London, Manila, Mexico City and Barcelona. It is precisely because of the bankruptcy of this chain and the non-payment of creditors that Buti was arrested in Italy at the end of 2000 at the request of the New York judiciary for recycling e aggravated scam. But the businessman has never been extradited to the United States.
Friend of Flavio Briatore, for which he organized a dinner at Riyad in which he also participated Matteo Renzi, e Adrian Mutu, Buti was condemned from Court of Florence to 5 years and 10 months in prison for fraudulent bankruptcy for distraction for the failure of the Spheres, a company that was supposed to provide consultancy and design for watches under the “TB Buti” brand, and unfaithful tax return in 2012, 2013 and 2015. For the prosecution it would not have declared income for more than 2.3 million euros. His older brother also condemned, Francesco, at four and a half years old.
The Sfere company was founded in 2010 and declared bankrupt in 2016. Just then the intervention of the Finance police, who waited for Buti on his return from Paris with a provision from the investigating judge who ordered him House arrest. To cause the overdraft would have been the expenses of the Buti brothers who would have used the company’s money for personal use and to whom it is accused of having stolen from the company’s coffers about 3 million euros from 2011 to 2015. The prosecution cites holidays in resort super luxurious, i rentals of very expensive machines, tens of thousands of euros staked in one betting room of Sesto Fiorentino and everything that contributes to a lifestyle of maximum luxury.
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