(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - Former Lower House Speaker Irene
Pivetti said after a court of first instance in Milan sentenced
her to four year in jail for tax evasion that it was "just the
end of the first half" and that she would appeal, confident in
the knowledge that "I have never evaded taxes".
The former League MP and youngest ever Speaker in 1994 said:
"This is only the end of the first half.
Pivetti says 'only end of first half, never evaded taxes'
Curious to see explanation, I will appeal