VATICAN CITY
NBC News
By NBC’s Claudio Lavanga
ROME — A Vatican computer expert charged with helping the pope’s former butler Paolo Gabriele to steal and leak papal documents to a journalist was given a suspended, two-month prison sentence Saturday.
Claudio Sciarpelletti was initially given a four-month sentence, but it was reduced immediately to two months because of his clean record and later suspended.
In reading the verdict, chief judge Giuseppe della Torre said Sciarpelletti was sentenced for “obstructing justice.”
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