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The Offer Antonio Ingroia Cannot Refuse

July 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Those of you who read Italy Chronicles from outside of Italy have probably never heard of the Italian magistrate Antonio Ingroia.  If this is the case, you will not have heard Ingroia has recently been made an offer he cannot refuse. In Italy though, and especially in Palermo, Sicily, Antonio … [Read more...]

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Profiting from 32 Deaths – Costa Concordia Tragedy

July 6, 2012 by 5 Comments
The Costa Concordia Tragedy

The Costa Concordia cruise ship incident claimed the lives of 32 innocent people.  The captain of the ship, one Franscesco Schettino is likely to face charges of multiple homicide, failing to assist the victims, abandoning his ship and failing to communicate with maritime authorities.  Such grave … [Read more...]

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Men Killing Women in Italy

June 12, 2012 by 6 Comments
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Since the start of 2012, sixty three women in Italy have been murdered by husbands and spurned lovers.  That is one death every three days.  128 women were killed in Italy in 2011. Sadly, it was clear from fairly early stages that many of the situations involving men harassing women would end … [Read more...]

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Italy Has One Million Invisible Homes

March 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
There's a Italian City Here. Honest!

The clampdown on fiddles in Italy is producing some remarkable results.  How about discovering that more than one million homes in Italy are invisible?  No, it is not April 1st! Presumably inhibited by millions of invisible Italians, these invisible homes have been identified from satellite … [Read more...]

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Amanda Knox Supported by Silvio Berlusconi

May 27, 2011 by 13 Comments
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Amanda Knox, an American student in Perugia, her then boyfriend, an Italian Raffaele Solecito, and Rudy Guede were convicted of the murder of English student Meridith Kercher in a case which has sparked seemingly endless controversy. Now, even Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has become … [Read more...]

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Reverse Money Laundering

April 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Clean or Dirty Money?

I was chatting to a journalist friend of mine at Il Sole 24 Ore the other day. Said journalist, Stefano Elli, specializes in investigating financial crime and he's told me about some of the goings on in Italy he's been looking into - plots and counter plots, schemes and more, but the latest … [Read more...]

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Italy – The Vatican and the Mafia

November 16, 2009 by 9 Comments

When mention is made of Italy, mixed in with thoughts of pasta and wine will be the Vatican and, the mafia. With regard to which springs to mind first, Vatican or mafia, I have no idea, but it does not matter really, as both are intrinsically Italian. Yet the Vatican champions the morally … [Read more...]

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Corruption and Extortion in Italian

January 15, 2009 by 11 Comments
Corrupt Legislation, Vedder Highsmith

Those of you who are not Italian, but read Italian newspapers, will often come across the words 'corruzione' and 'concussione'.  Do you know what 'concussione' means? No, it's got nothing to do with being banged on the head, just in case you were wondering.  That would be far too simple.  Such … [Read more...]

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Too Much Power?

September 24, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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Italy decided to put battle dress clad troops on its streets to help maintain law and order just before the summer this year. Aside from a few soldiers hovering around Milan's central station, I had yet to see much evidence of the military on the streets here in Milan, until recently. … [Read more...]

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Business is Revolting in Palermo

September 15, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Sicily

'Don't pay the pizzo man' is the message being sent out to businesses down in sunny Sicily. First medium sized and large businesses started to refuse to pay the Sicilian mafia's informal business tax, know as the 'pizzo'. Reports in many of Italy's national newspapers are giving the impression … [Read more...]

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