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Titolo: (ot)??? cosa si dice del berlusca all' estero

sono un clone di Robinhood, tuttavia non sono fazioso e non faccio
pistolotti come lui, su fidel cuba e non faccio propaganda rossa, mi
limito solo a riportare il parere degli altri, un pò alla stardust.
comincio con il parere della redazione di bloomberg, che con ogni
probabilità ha poco a che vedere con la proganda rossa:
Berlusconi's Ex-Lawyer Draws Aim of Prosecutor `Ilda the Red'
 
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Ilda Boccassini, the Milan prosecutor nicknamed
``Ilda the Red'' because of her rust-colored hair, put Mafia boss
Salvatore Riina in prison for life. Now she has set her sights on Cesare
Previti, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's former lawyer. 
``She never gives up,'' Carla Del Ponte, the United Nations prosecutor who
charged former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, said.
``She keeps going until she learns the truth, and that earns her many
enemies.'' 
The Italian parliament passed an immunity law in June that led to a
suspension of a case Boccassini brought against Berlusconi. That hasn't
stopped her from prosecuting Previti for allegedly bribing judges on the
billionaire premier's behalf. 
The Milan court's decision is scheduled for November, during Berlusconi's
six-month stint as European Union president. The premier and Previti deny
any wrongdoing and say prosecutors and judges are trying to use the
justice system to oust the government. 
Berlusconi's first government fell in 1994 when a coalition partner pulled
out a month after Milan magistrates announced they were investigating him
for allegedly bribing tax police. Berlusconi was exonerated by Italy's
highest appeals court seven years later. 
Previti, a former lawyer of Berlusconi's holding company, Fininvest SpA,
had already received an 11-year prison sentence in April for twice bribing
judges for favorable rulings, in one instance to favor Fininvest in a
fight for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, Italy's second-biggest magazine
publisher that Berlusconi now controls. A Milan court called the case
``the worst corruption in the history of the Italian Republic.'' 
Previti is appealing the ruling and doesn't have to serve his sentence
while the appeals process continues. 
`Fervid Imagination' 
Berlusconi's trial for allegedly bribing judges to block the sale of
state-owned food company SME Meridionale SpA in the mid- 1980s was
suspended June 30, a day before he took over the EU presidency, when the
Milan court applied the new law that protects the prime minister's office
from criminal prosecution. Previti, 68, is still on trial for alleged
bribery at Berlusconi's bidding. 
``There's nothing, there's only the fervid imagination of who invented
this theorem,'' Berlusconi said, glancing in Boccassini's direction during
his June 17 testimony in Milan. ``There's not, I repeat, and I want to say
it forcefully, a single piece of evidence, no proof, no accuser, no
witness, no document and there's not a motive.'' 
Boccassini, 53, says magistrates prosecuting charges of judicial
corruption are simply trying to enforce what's on the law books. This at a
time when public confidence in the justice system is 34 percent, half what
it was in 1994, according to Milan-based polling company Ispo/ACNielsen. 
`Rule of Law' 
``The law is the same for everyone,'' Boccassini told a Milan court in May
before asking that Previti be sentenced to 11 years in prison for
allegedly bribing judges to stop the SME sale. ``These are constitutional
principles that we must follow and that we have a duty to enforce because
if not, our democracy is at risk.'' 
Berlusconi, 66, can turn for support in his battle over the allegations to
the 55 percent of parliamentary votes held by his coalition and to Italy's
largest commercial television broadcaster, Mediaset SpA, which he
controls. 
Mediaset's Rete 4 channel aired Berlusconi's entire testimony to the Milan
court on June 17 without commercials after his communications aide, former
Mediaset cameraman Roberto Gasparotti, directed the placement of the
cameras for both Mediaset and RAI, Italy's state-owned broadcast company.
As Berlusconi finished speaking and before Boccassini quizzed him on
allegedly illegal Swiss payments to Previti, Rete 4 ended the broadcast. 
Canceled Programs 
As prime minister, Berlusconi, who is the world's 45th- richest man and is
worth $5.9 billion, according to Forbes magazine, has added influence over
the selection of management at RAI to his role in the media industry. RAI
and Mediaset draw 90 percent of Italy's prime-time viewing audience and 75
percent of TV advertising, according to TV-industry monitor Auditel. 
Last year, RAI canceled the news-commentary programs of two journalists,
Enzo Biagi and Michael Santoro, after the prime minister criticized them
at a news conference in Bulgaria in April 2002. ``They used the state
broadcaster, which is funded by citizens' license fees, in a criminal
way,'' Berlusconi said. 
The ruling House of Freedoms coalition has passed since October 2001,
apart from the immunity law, three other measures that were linked to the
fate of the trials involving Berlusconi. They include measures that have
decriminalized most false- bookkeeping offenses, restricted the use of
Swiss legal documents, and made it easier to move trial venues. 
Legal Battles 
``We need to put a system in place where citizens choose their government,
not a group of judges,'' Berlusconi said on Aug. 1. ``It's a battle that
must be won, even if it's the only battle I ever win.'' 
A court in Brescia started investigating Boccassini and fellow prosecutor
Gherardo Colombo in July for ``abuse of office.'' Defense lawyers want the
probe to determine if the prosecutors are withholding evidence that may
help prove their clients' innocence. 
Boccassini and Colombo ``oppose the truth,'' said Alessandro Sammarco, one
of Previti's lawyers. The bribery charges are designed to hurt Berlusconi,
he said. 
Boccassini, in a telephone interview, declined to comment on the cases
that are currently before the courts. 
``Magistrates have been attacked since 1994 by Berlusconi's media and his
political allies,'' Gerardo D'Ambrosio, a retired chief prosecutor in
Milan, said. ``Berlusconi has mobilized his media and it's brought about a
complete delegitimization of the judiciary in the eyes of the public.'' 
`Ultimo' 
Boccassini, who was born in Naples, said she never doubted she would be a
magistrate, a career also chosen by her father and grandfather. 
After she passed the state magistrate exam in 1977, the University of
Naples law-school graduate began investigating drug dealers, thieves and
crimes of passion in Milan. It wasn't until meeting Palermo magistrate
Giovanni Falcone in 1985 that she took on the Mafia. 
Falcone, Boccassini and Del Ponte, then a prosecutor in Lugano,
Switzerland, worked to unravel Mafia money laundering, and Falcone took to
calling the two female prosecutors, jokingly, ``my women.'' Boccassini
began working with a team of undercover agents led by a military police
captain who called himself ``Ultimo'' -- meaning Final or Ultimate. 
Italian magistrates have investigative authority and with the help of
detectives conduct what is exclusively police work in the U.S. or Britain.
Falcone worked with Rudolph Giuliani, then a U.S. attorney for the
Southern District of New York, in the 1980s to probe drug trafficking
between Sicily and the U.S. 
Falcone's Murder 
Using techniques Falcone advocated -- planting electronic listening
devices in hideouts and filming clandestine meetings -- Boccassini and
Ultimo's team documented for the first time the Sicilian Mafia's activity
in Milan, uncovering racketeering and drug trafficking. 
The resulting trial put 20 mobsters in prison on May 25, 1992 -- two days
after Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were blown up on a Sicilian
road by more than 1,000 pounds of explosives hidden in a culvert. 
``The death of Falcone had an enormous effect on my life,'' Boccassini
said. ``I respected him because he was the best magistrate that Italy
could ever have.'' 
She requested a transfer to Sicily to pursue -- with Ultimo and his team
-- Falcone's killers. Del Ponte and Boccassini visit his grave in Palermo
every year on the anniversary of his death. ``I can't not think of him,''
Boccassini said of Falcone. ``I'm always wondering what he would do in my
place.'' 
Roman Judges 
Boccassini helped amass the evidence that prompted a Sicilian court in
1997 to sentence Riina, the leader of the ``Corleonese'' clan, and 23
others to life in prison for the murders of Falcone, his wife and the
bodyguards. In 2000, six more Mafiosi received life sentences. 
Bodyguards have provided Boccassini 24-hour protection since 1989, when
she spearheaded the investigations of the Mafia in Milan, and she said she
receives hate mail every day. 
``The Mafia doesn't forget,'' Francesco Saverio Borrelli, chief Milan
prosecutor for 11 years, said in an interview. Borrelli assigned
Boccassini to investigate corruption among Roman judges that led to the
trials against Previti and Berlusconi. 
A key witness for Boccassini's cases against Berlusconi and Previti was
socialite Stefania Ariosto, former girlfriend of Vittorio Dotti, a
Fininvest lawyer and a parliamentary leader of Berlusconi's Forza Italia
party. 
Envelopes of Cash 
Ariosto, who was given the code name ``Omega,'' said in a telephone
interview earlier this month that she saw Previti twice give money to
Renato Squillante, one of the Roman court's most senior judges. Ariosto
had told Boccassini how after a five-a- side soccer match at a sports club
along the Tiber River she witnessed Previti give Squillante an envelope
full of cash. Another exchange took place at Previti's home during a
party, she said. 
``They turned corruption into a habit, so commonplace that they didn't
bother to hide it,'' Ariosto said. 
Berlusconi called Ariosto a ``mythomaniac'' in testimony to the Milan
court and said she ``has lied about everything. Nothing she has said has
proven to be true.'' 
Dead Rabbit 
Ariosto received a dead rabbit in the mail on Dec. 23, 1995, after she
began collaborating with Boccassini, with a note that said ``Merry
Christmas.'' She still receives death threats, she said. 
To verify Ariosto's assertions, Boccassini ordered police to bug
Squillante's phones and hangouts, including his local cappuccino bar, and
to stake out his home. After police tailed Squillante and a Rome-based
lawyer to Switzerland, Boccassini was able to obtain bank records to build
her cases. 
``Even though she's a woman,'' Ultimo, the military-police captain, said
in a book of interviews compiled by Maurizio Torrealta and published in
1995, ``to us, she's a soldier.'' 
Last Updated: August 25, 2003 19:01 EDT 
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