That law shortened the statute of limitations after which charges are time-barred, a provision that directly benefited Mr Berlusconi.
If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.
But under RICO, as long as the last predicate act in furtherance of the alleged scheme occurred within five years of the date the indictment was handed up, otherwise time-barred offenses can be used as RICO predicates as well.
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The seven-time world champion is barred from testing the 2009 Ferrari as part of the new Formula One rules for the season, but has had a run out at their Maranello center in the 2007 car.
His group has been barred since that time as well, though it's continued to operate under different guises.
Jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson once tickled its keys at a time when many other Vancouver venues barred black performers.
Banned from baseball amid World Series fixing and gambling scandals, White Sox great "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the league's all-time hits leader Pete Rose are barred from even being considered.
Ron Paul missed his morning breakfast on Monday as dozens of television cameras basically barred the Texas congressman from spending time with New Hampshire locals.
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"For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows, " Bauer wrote of his time in Iran.
At the time of his death, he was allowed to travel within China, but was barred from leaving the country, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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The fear, though, is that China will in time be able to buy high-tech, often dual-use, equipment now barred to it, as well as gaining more leverage in negotiating with other suppliers notably Russia as a result of having better access to European ones.
The excuses proffered in the Italian press range from Mr Milioni being physically barred by opposition party members, to him nipping out to buy a sandwich and forgetting the time.
Companies could be barred from using rolling contracts - where the contract is renewed each day so that at any given time directors have a fixed notice period to serve - to get around limits on the length of time they may serve.
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