Umberto Bossi: Bossi

Silvio Berlusconi Dept: ROME - The firebrand founder of a populist anti-immigrant party in Italy, whose crucial support kept Silvio Berlusconi in power in three governments, has resigned amid a widening corruption scandal over party funds, according to Winnipeg Free Press. In a show of support for Bossi, 70, who had made a stunning comeback after a stroke in 2004 left him barely able to speak, party officials made him League president and also asked him "to carry on with his political activity with even greater determination and conviction," the party said and fILE -- In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo Northern League party leader Umberto Bossi leaves the Lower Chamber in Rome. An official of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party says Silvio Berlusconi's longtime political ally Bossi has quit as party chief amid a widening corruption scandal. Umberto Bossi, the League's founder and firebrand populist, quit the top post of party secretary during a summit in Milan on Thursday, April 5, 2012, according to Matteo Salvini told Radio Padania, the League's radio network. AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File Umberto Bossi quit as Northern League secretary, the top post, at a summit of party officials in Milan and repeatedly rebuffed pleas by his colleagues to change his mind, accordinng to a League statement Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.