/ Source: The Associated Press
Italy's highest court has upheld the conviction against Sicily's former governor of helping a Mafia boss.
The ANSA news agency says Salvatore Cuffaro turned himself in to Rome's Rebibbia prison Saturday to begin serving a seven-year sentence.
Cuffaro was convicted in 2008 of aiding and abetting the Mafia. Prosecutors said he learned in 2001 that the home of a convicted Palermo boss had been bugged by investigators; prosecutors say Cuffaro told a doctor who knew the mobster and that the doctor then passed the information on, thus ruining the investigation.
Cuffaro, a Christian Democrat, had maintained his innocence and had been free pending his appeals. On Saturday, ANSA quoted him as saying he respected the Court of Cassation ruling.