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Article: CAVALLI GUILTY OF EVADING TAXES.( Roberto Cavalli )(Brief article)
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- March 27, 2006
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Byline: COURTNEY COLAVITA
MILAN - Defense attorneys for Roberto Cavalli said they would appeal a Florence court's decision that found the Italian designer guilty of tax evasion.
A judge sentenced Cavalli to 14 months in prison last Thursday following almost four years of trial.
However, an Italian judicial technicality will likely exempt the designer from ever serving a day in prison. The clause gives judges discretionary rights to suspend sentences of less than two years under the pretext that the convicted person won't recommit the same crime.
In a statement Cavalli's defense attorneys Alessandro Traversi and Massimo Dal Piaz called ...