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Titolo: LA ZECCA  FURIO COLOMBO CHE DICE ?

Roma - L'Agenzia delle Entrate indaga sull'eredit� degli Agnelli. Potrebbero 
esserci capitali per oltre un miliardo all'estero mai dichiarati al fisco. 
La notizia, diffusa dal Tg5, � confermata dai vertici dell'amministrazione 
fiscale: l'indagine dell'Agenzia sul "tesoro" degli Agnelli "� stata aperta 
in seguito alle notizie diffuse dagli stessi eredi sulla esistenza di beni 
all'estero".
Avviati i controlli sul tesoro degli Agnelli "Le diatribe sull'eredit� sono 
note da mesi, sono su tutti i giornali e l'Agenzia, sulla notizia di 
possibili beni all'estero non dichiarati al fisco, come fa sempre ha anche 
in questo caso aperto l'indagine", ha spiegato il direttore Attilio Befera. 
I controlli sono stati avviati in concomitanza con l'approvazione del 
decreto anti-crisi, a fine giugno, che contiene una stretta sui beni 
detenuti illegalmente nei paradisi fiscali. L'Ufficio accertamento dell'Agenzia 
ha archiviato meticolosamente, si apprende da ambienti della stessa 
amministrazione, giorno per giorno le notizie sulla diatriba diffuse dagli 
stessi eredi, in particolare dalla figlia dell'avvocato, Margherita.
I tempi dell'indagine Quanto ai tempi dell'indagine fiscale, Befera non si 
pronuncia: "La stiamo seguendo, al momento non c'� nulla di nuovo, non ho 
nulla da commentare", si limita a rispondere. Tecnici dell'amministrazione 
fanno notare che qualora venisse accertata l'evasione, gli eredi Agnelli non 
potrebbero usufruire dello scudo, la norma che concede una sanatoria per chi 
rimpatria i capitali detenuti all'estero illegalmente, perch� esiste un 
procedimento in corso. Secondo il Tg5 si tratterebbe di capitali detenuti 
per lo pi� in Svizzera e la cifra potrebbe collocarsi tra 1 e 2 miliardi di 
euro. Margherita ha sempre puntato il dito contro i gestori del patrimonio. 
Chiede l'esatto rendiconto dell'asse ereditario e, secondo quanto riferito 
sempre questa sera dal Tg5, ha citato in giudizio la madre: "Non volevo 
citare lei, sono stata costretta. Superato il lutto - sarebbero sempre 
parole della figlia dell'avvocato riferite nel Tg di Clemente Mimun - per 
aver perso mio padre ora devo affrontare il dolore di aver perso mia madre".


Margherita Agnelli � una dolcissima donna, pittrice e poetessa, anima
nobile, sfortunata nella vita per molte ragioni, fra le quali la sua grande
bont� .
Finch� � stato vivo suo padre, che l'adorava, ha potuto sopravvivere alla
pi� grande disgrazia che ha avuto ( e Dio sa se io la comprendo) : avere una
madre come � la Marella Caracciolo che per la sua faccia e facciata, ha
fatto fare i funerali religiosi cattolici al marito, che detestava la Chiesa
Cattolica ed i preti con tutto se stesso.
Margherita, inoltre, da quando spos� il primo marito, ebreo francese, con
solo rito civile a Vilar Perosa, impegnandosi a fare ebrei i figli, �
diventata invisa alla madre Marella ancora di pi� di quanto questa donna gi�
non amasse i figli.
Il fratello di Margherita, drogato, si suicid� e l'affetto profondo del
padre si rivers� tutto su questa adorata ed adorabile figlia.
Non so perch� ma ho sempre voluto un gran bene a Margherita, o forse perch�,
come me, ha avuto una madre matrigna e gelosa di lei, per il bene sacrosanto
che suo padre Gianni le voleva o forse per altre ragioni insite nel
carattere e nell' indole della Marella, nel protagonismo ben celato e
l'avidit� della madre.
Mia opinione.
Luciana Cencioni


No so che cosa dica la zecca Furio Colombo ma questo � quello che la comunit� accademica di New York dice di lui:
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
� 1993 The New York Observer Company Inc.
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JULY 19-JULY 26, 1993
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A Columbia Professor by His Own Fiat,
Agnelli's Man in N .Y.  Wears Out Welcome
By Antony Shugaar
Furio Colombo, who holds the San Pao�lo Chair of International Journalism at Co�lumbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, has an impressively eclectic r�sum�: former chairman of Fiat USA, chairman of the publishing company Fab�bri Bompiani, and longtime columnist for La Stanpa, a Turin dai�ly and one of Italy's most respected papers. Mr. Colombo is, more�over, the director of la Rivista dei Libri, the Italian-and the only, foreign-language---edition of The New York Review of Brooks, a joint venture of the American publication with Fabbri Bompiani. He is the di�rector of the Italian Cul�tural Institute, which is mai rained by the Ital�ian consulate in New. York, And when, two years ago, he was ap�pointed to the San Paolo Chair, The New York Times gushed that Mr. Colombo, then 60, had "added yet an�other facet to his career."
The Times failed to note that virtually all the facets belong to one Ritz-sized di�amond: Fiat, Europe's largest car manu�facturer and the single largest corporation in Italy, producing 4 percent of the country's gross national product.
The Agnelli family, which controls Fiat, owns the publishing house, the newspaper and the Italian edition of The New York Review of Books.
And the San Paolo Chair was endowed by the San Paolo bank, which is located in Turin.  Turin is a Fiat company town, and the San Paulo bank does a great deal of business with the auto�mobile company.
Just what machina�tions underlay Mr. Colombo's appoint�ment to the chair has been the subject of speculation at the jour�nalism school; sonic sources there have said that the chair was en�dowed at Mr. Colom�bo's own instigation, and with the condition that he sit in it. But the appointment has also prompted questions of journalistic ethics - How independent can an international journalist be who has for years been on the payroll of the largest cor�poration in Italy ? - as well as questions about the extent to which chairs at Co�lumbia University are for sale.
Agnelli's Man at Columbia Wearing Out His Welcome
Professor Colombo, who teaches a course in international  journalism, brushes aside the suggestion that his relationship to Fiat is closer than a journalist's should he. " I am an intellectual and the important thing is to do your work well," he told The Observer. "I know myself, and I know the level of independence and reliability my life offers. I know what I write, and I know what I am in the eyes of the Italians "
According to a memo From the jour�nalism school dean's office to the faculty dated June 30, Mr. Colombo will go on leave next year, ostensibly to work on a book about China. "I may or may not go on leave next year," he told The Observer in early July.
"His appointment was on a year-to-year basis. [The professor] was supposed to change and there 
would be another Italian journalist teaching," said Ken Goldstein, a professor at the journalism school.
Agnelli Courtier
Mr. Colombo, dapper, urbane, the author of 21 books, is a charismatic and self-assured man. Among his friends and ac�quaintances he counts Gay Talese, Henry  Kissinger, Gerald Ford and Umberto Eco. His most important friend, however, is his patron, Gianni Agnelli, the dynastic head of Fiat and a noted bon vivant. "He has always been � Agnelli's personal man in New York," said Claudio Gatti, a correspondent for Rizzoli's Europeo, also Fiat-owned."Ag�nelli needs to be entertained--he gets bored--and Colombo does that."
"Agnelli is the King of Italy," said Gay Talese. "He comes out of a Medici mythology, and so Furio Colombo is a prince of sorts to that court, a cultural prince, a cul�tural attach�."
The story of Mr. Colombo�s arrival at the journalism school begins in May 1991, with a $17,5 million donation from the Italian Government to Columbia, intended to renovate the venerable Casa Italiana, a building on Amsterdam Avenue that is the locus of Columbia's Italian studies and activities, and to establish a postgraduate res�earch center, called the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. Along with Mr. Colombo and Susanna Agnelli, Mr. Agnelli's sister, the academy's board at first featured Francesco Cossiga, former President of Italy, who resigned last year, as well as seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, now under a cloud of scandal and soon to face charges of or�dering the Mafia-implemented execution of a journalist named Mino Pecorelli, and Michael Sovern, who stepped down as president of Columbia--not under a cloud of scandal-- in June. An honorary fellow of the academy is Gianni De Michelis, ItaIy's former Foreign Minister, now facing prosecution on numerous corruption charges.
Soon after the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies was established in 1991, a call was put out for corporate donations from Italian companies with a presence in New York. The San Paolo bank was one of the first to respond. (Marisella Lorch, the academy�s  director, had been hopeful of getting a new endowment for a new chair in either medicine or archeology, from an association of alumni of Rome's La Sapienza university, an association headed by Mr. Andreotti, but the project is currently on hold. "The time is not right," she told The Observer. 'They say to me, let us get out of trouble first.")
Self-Nominated ?
Here the situation becomes more complex. That the San Paolo Chair of Interna�tional Journalism was endowed for $1.8 million in June 1991, and that Furio Colombo now sits in it, are not open to dispute. But sources at the university and at the bank have said that the gift was not a no-strings-attached donation; rather it came at the solicitation of Mr. Colombo himself. "It was Furio Colombo's wish that we set up this professorship in international jour�nalism," Luisella Giorda, head of the bank's public relations division, told a reporter from Lingua Franca, not long after Mr. Colombo�s post was announced.
'Furio Colombo is a prince o sorts to [the Agnelli] court,
a cultural prince, a cultural attach�.'  - Gay Talese
Mr. Colombo's post was announced. At any rate, the search for a candidate to fill the chair was perfunctory at best, according to various of the professors involved. ''Dean [Joan Konner] said that there was this wonderful man they had been introduced to as the ideal candidate, ''said Karen Rothmyer, who, as a professor at the journalism school, was on the committee for appointments, and is now a business re�porter for Newsday. ''As far as I was ever io}ld Oq he.ard, there was ever told or heard, there was never any other candidate. I did make a point of reading the only book [by Mr. Colombo] that I knew of that had been translated into English [God in America, published by Co-lumbia University Press], I felt it was not the work of a true scholar, it was pretty disjointed, and the information was large�ly taken from newspaper clippings."
"His name was not generated by our faculty, but by the Academy," Phyllis Garland, a tenured professor at the journalism school and another member of the committee on appointments, told The Observer. 'I am not certain that we knew he was a member of the board of the Academy. We weren't aware of the extent of the links to Fiat".�
  He was a present to us, "Ms. Garland continued. "The money did not come from our budget, and he filled a position that we had not established. If we had established the position, we would have advertised. But there was no advertising for this position. He came by a different avenue. "
Joan Konner, dean of the journalism school, had a somewhat different view of Mr. Colombo's appointment. "A search was done," she told this reporter some six months ago. "There were definitely other candidates. " However, she could not recall if the other names where brought before the committee.
However the selection process was conducted, many--on both sides of the Atlantic--have wondered whether a man of Mr. Colombo's background should be teaching journalism at all. "We don't con�sider him to be a journalist," said Giorgio Bocca, a columnist for L�Espresso.  "He is a different sort of journalist--he's rich, he's powerful, he's anomalous. He is more a businessman, or a high-Level P.R. man than he is a journalist. He is an ambassador for the Agnelli family, and he spends much of his time on that."
Mr. Bocca added, "More than a chair in journalism, he should have a chair in ca�reer advancement."
An American journalist based in Italy for a leading American news organiza�tion--who asked not to be named--said, "It seems like a conflict of interest to me. It seems like he can't help but protect [Fiat], even subconsciously ... That's fine in Italy, that's the way it works over here. But I think it's bad to have someone teaching American journalists different standards."
And Ms. Garland said, "One of the problems we saw was that of a different con�cept of journalism between America sad Italy. There is a different set of Rules, es�pecially about relations with business. The point of view of someone  writing about what happens in society must be separate, independent. That was a major question,"
Ms. Kenny said, "We were aware there was a different environment in Italy. Cor�porations there are like college campuses. There is a great corporate contribution to the cultural life of the country."
In his defense, Mr. Colombo said that in Italy, he la a respected and much-read jour�nalist, and that, furthermore, he does not 
Write about economics or business. "When they made Pablo Neruda the ambassador to France, "he said, "was he made ambassador because he was a poet, or was he considered a poet because he was
ambassador ? " As an example of his independence from Fiat, he pointed out that he wrote books in favor of Israel at a time when Libya' state oil company had taken a 10 percent share in Fiat. "I don't think any P.R. man has engaged in soiling strongly opinionated books at odds with the firm that employs him, "he explained. 'That is La regarding the idea that I ever did P.R. If I was a P.R. man, I was an extremely in�convenient one. "
Get Me Rewrite !
Mr. Colombo's two years at Columbia have not been smooth sailing.
A professional editor reportedly had to be hired to edit the pieces his students sub�mitted. "There had been complaints about his editing, " a source at the journalism school said. "It was presented as a prob�lem with his English, but a number of stu�dents seemed to feel. Differently."
Soon after Mr. Colombo was hired, a student interviewed him for a piece that later appeared in the magazine Lingua Franca (and to which this reporter also contributed). "He presented the matter at a fac-ulty meeting, and said that he was upset at this inappropriate interview," recalled Ms. �Rothmyer, "We  told him that a journalist is free to ask any question that the journal�ist wants to ask, and that that included a student journalist ... I became convinced that this was someone who didn't under-stand the American way of journalism."
A source at the journalism school said that word was the faculty had recom�mended that Mr. Colombo not be asked back after this year. Several professors close to the process at the journalism school would neither confirm nor deny that such a recommendation had been made, and Ms. Konner did not return calls seeking comment. But one professor said that a meet�ing between Ms. Konner and Mr. Colombo took place in late May "to determine what was to be done. "
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