…my, Italian, other half has clarified the magistrates versus politicians thing, I am, almost, pleased to say.

Stop reading, start speaking
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
Apparently, the non-political magistrates are, in reality, political. This means that there are those who like Mr B who go after Mr Prodi’s cronies, and then there are those who think Prodi’s the bees knees and thus ‘investigate’ Berlusco’s boys.
There, now. Everything is crystal clear.