Cosentino 10-yr term for mafia upheld

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 27 - The supreme Court of Cassation on Thursday upheld a ten-year term for former economy undersecretary and ex-People of Freedom (PdL) coordinator Nicola Cosentino for helping the Neapolitan Camorra mafia, and specifically being a "reference point" for the notorious Casalesi clan whose death threats have forced anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano into police protection.
    Cosentino was elected MP four times between 1996-2008 as a member of three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi's now-defunct PdL Jail terms for his brothers, Giovanni and Antonio, were also upheld, becoming definitive. (ANSA).