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Until a few days ago was around with her nice big face in the corridors of the Palazzo Madama, seat of the Senate . Since yesterday, his home is a cell on the ground floor of the prison Rebibbia , Department G12, Rome. Italy. I wonder if
Salvatore "Toto" Cuffaro by Raffadali (Agrigento), former President of Sicily Region , former deputy secretary and former national UDC (until yesterday, to be precise) of the Italian Republic Senator , expected when an inglorious fate as September 26, 1991, with the proverbial timing, on his debut national television screens sweaty and foaming with rage hurling fiercely against the judge Giovanni Falcone , a few months before an attack Mafia did it blow up.
stronger than that amazing performance, the young shoots ahead Cuffaro: in the past few years a promising member of the Regional Assembly (net DC) as President of Sicily Region. Not yet elected governor the island - we are in the spring of 2001 - Cuffaro sets to work. To help its citizens? No, to promote mafia.
This is the verdict of the judges of the Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court who have sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting Cosa Nostra .
The facts show that in 2001, Cuffaro is aware of a bug installed by the Carabinieri's ROS (Special Operations Department) internal Palermo's Giuseppe Guttadauro , Mafia boss of Brancaccio of the district. Cuffaro, perhaps concerned about the fate of the boss and incriminating conversations that took place in the house, informa della notizia Mimmo Miceli , un altro politico siciliano che, a sua volta, informa Guttadauro. Il gioco è fatto: il 15 giugno 2001 si interrompono le conversazioni “compromettenti” che il boss intratteneva nella sua abitazione. Tre giorni dopo la cimice viene individuata e distrutta, mandando in frantumi una promettente indagine sui rapporti e le connivenze politico-mafiose in Sicilia.
Ma l’attivismo di Totò “Vasa-vasa” (ovvero “bacia-bacia”, soprannome che deriva dalla sua proverbiale propensione ad elargire baci ai suoi interlocutori) non si ferma qui.
Celebre è l’incontro tra lui e Michele Aiello – imprenditore ritenuto molto vicino Provenzano to - occurred in the back of a sporting goods store Bagheria, during which Cuffaro had agreed the regional tariff reimbursements to the clinic "Villa Teresa", of which Aiello is the owner.
Nor visited in "hazardous" Cuffaro stop there. Friend and best man (along with Clemente Mastella, a former justice minister) of Francesco Campanella, regretted that the power of attorney to the Provenzano false passport which allowed the boss of bosses of exile in France, attended Cuffaro Vincent also Greek and Salvatore Aragona , both sentenced for the Mafia. But woe to let him out: "I have to do - goals amazed Toto - sidelining? I'll have to listen to everybody, talk to everyone. " God forbid.
In fact, neither the initial investigations, neither the trial, nor the conviction at first instance to facilitate "easy" on a single mob, stop the political climax of Toto .
course, the cannoli which in 2008 celebrated the conviction at first instance (or rather not: "I was just moving them", he defends Cuffaro), forced him to leave the chair as President of the Region as soon as the elections confirmed . But it's worth a good seat in parliament. To ensure this, ironically, the election law to League's signature and the firm will of Pier Ferdinando Casini , whereas the definition of Totò a "political persecution" and violating a promise not to nominate anyone in the general election had been convicted, the gives the gift of a chair Senator. In January 2010
, however, things get complicated: the Court of Appeal sentenced him to seven years for aiding and abetting aggravated by 'Cosa Nostra have favored, suggesting the real possibility of jail. Yesterday, the final sentence in prison entrance .
Cuffaro bequeaths un posto da Presidente della Regione Sicilia, oggi occupato da Raffaele Lombardo , già arrestato un paio di volte e tutt’ora sotto inchiesta per concorso esterno in associazione mafiosa , e un seggio da Senatore della Repubblica, già assegnato a Maria Pia Castiglione . La quale, unendosi alla solidarietà bipartisan (nel PD si segnala il dispiacere di Follini) tributata dalla politica al povero Totò, ha subito precisato: “per me resta un amico dotato di grande umanità, disponibilità e generosità. Tutti gli dobbiamo tanto ”.
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