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November 3rd, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Cancellieri has allegedly used her influence to move Giulia Ligresti, the ailing daughter of a former insurance magnate, from jail to house arrest.
“I will not resign, my conscience is clean,” said Cancellieri.
Critics accuse the minister of fuelling cronyism and acting out of a conflict of interest due to her long friendship with the Ligresti family.
The minister is to testify before the two houses of parliament on November 5 regarding the allegations, according to a government spokesman.
The scandal erupted after Italian newspaper La Repubblica published transcripts of her phone calls, which appeared to show Cancellieri promising the Ligresti family that she would deal with the issue.
Ligresti was arrested together with her father and sister during an investigation into false accounting and market manipulation at insurer Fondiaria-SAI, which the family controlled at the time.
Her father was placed under house arrest while she and her sister were sentenced to prison.
The opposition Five Star Movement has announced it will present a no-confidence motion against the justice minister, saying her help “could appear to be seen as the payment of a debt after her son’s gain.”
Cancellieri’s son, Piergiorgio Peluso, earned several million euros as an executive at Fondiaria-SAI when he worked for the company in 2011-2012.
The scandal could further destabilize Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s fragile coalition, which survived a confidence vote last month.
The vote came after center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi ordered his five ministers to resign from the government in a dispute over his fraud conviction.
On October 4, Berlusconi came a step closer to political exile after a Senate committee voted to recommend the former premier’s expulsion from the parliament over his tax-fraud conviction and jail sentence.
The country’s parliament is set to vote on expelling Berlusconi from parliament later this month due to his conviction.
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