Giorgia Romitelli, an administrative law partner with DLA Piper in Milan, is facing a corruption trial on charges that she and a trio of other Italian lawyers engaged in fraud in order to bring the Expo 2015 trade fair to Milan next year.
An investigating judge in the northern Italian city ordered on June 23 that seven defendants—including Romitelli—face trial on Sept. 18 over allegations that they engaged in conspiracy, fraud and bid rigging in attempting to influence public tenders related to Expo 2015, according to reports by leading Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, which were picked up on by U.K. legal publication The Lawyer.
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