Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013;a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023,and previously from March to November 2013;and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022,and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion as of June 2023,Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death.
Forza Italia was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy,with Christian democratic,liberal,social democratic and populist tendencies. It was founded by Silvio Berlusconi,who served as Prime Minister of Italy four times.
Marcello Dell'Utri is a former Italian politician. He is best known for being a senior advisor to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi,of whom he became a secretary in his early 20s and since the 1970s had worked for him at his many companies,including Publitalia '80 and Fininvest Rai. Dell'Utri's life and career have been marred by controversies and legal issues,including a conviction for external complicity in mafia association.
Trials and allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023) have been extensive and include abuse of office,bribery and corruption of police officers,judges and politicians,collusion,defamation,embezzlement,extortion,false accounting,mafia,money laundering,perjury,tax fraud,underage prostitution influence and witness tampering.
Filippo Mancuso was an Italian judge and politician. In 1995 he was Italy's Minister of Justice in the government of Lamberto Dini. The Italian Senate voted a motion of no confidence against him and this fact was the first time during the republican period. The left wing and Lega Nord complained about the review of the Mani pulite pool during Tangentopoli. He was elected for the first time as deputy in 1996 Italian general election with Forza Italia party and he was confirmed in the 2001 general elections. He left Forza Italia in 2002,because he was not elected to the Constitutional Court of Italy because of opposition of the left wing. Mancuso agreed with Silvio Berlusconi to nominate another person for the Supreme Court,possibly Mario Serio,but then Forza Italia denoted Romano Vaccarella,a close friend of Cesare Previti. After 2006 Mancuso retired to private life until his death
The People of Freedom was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list,including Forza Italia and National Alliance,on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano,Renato Schifani,Renato Brunetta,Roberto Formigoni,Maurizio Sacconi,Maurizio Gasparri,Mariastella Gelmini,Antonio Martino,Giancarlo Galan,Maurizio Lupi,Gaetano Quagliariello,Daniela Santanchè,Sandro Bondi,and Raffaele Fitto.
Giuseppe Piromalli,is an Italian criminal known as a member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. He succeeded his uncle Girolamo Piromalli as head of the family clan that controls the port of Gioia Tauro and is one of the major powers in the 'Ndrangheta. He became a member of La Provincia,a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta,formed at the end of the Second 'Ndrangheta war in September 1991 to avoid further internal conflicts.
Renato Maria Giuseppe Schifani is an Italian politician who has served as the president of Sicily since 13 October 2022. Schifani was Silvio Berlusconi's chief whip and was a prominent member of the Senate of the Republic from 1996 to 2022. From 29 April 2008 to 14 March 2013,he was the president of the Senate of the Republic.
Raffaele Fitto is an Italian politician and a former member of the European Parliament. He is serving as the Minister for European Affairs in the Meloni Cabinet since 2022.
Gaspare Spatuzza is a Sicilian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He was an assassin for the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano who headed the Mafia family of Brancaccio. After the arrest of the Gravianos in January 1994,he apparently succeeded them as the regent of the Mafia family. He was arrested in 1997 and started to cooperate with the judicial authorities in 2008. In his testimony,he stated that media tycoon and then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi made a deal with the Sicilian Mafia in 1993 that put the country in the hands of Cosa Nostra.
Carlo De Benedetti is an Italian industrialist,engineer,and publisher. He is both an Italian and naturalized Swiss citizen. He was awarded the Order of Merit for Labour by the Italian state in 1983,the Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte and the Legion d'Honneur in 1987.
The political career of Silvio Berlusconi (1994–2011) began in 1994,when Berlusconi entered politics for the first time serving intermittent terms as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011,his career was racked with controversies and trials;amongst these was his failure to honour his promise to sell his personal assets in Mediaset,the largest television broadcaster network in Italy,in order to dispel any perceived conflicts of interest.
Nicola Cosentino is an Italian politician. Nicknamed "Nick 'o mericano",he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 9 May 1996 to 14 March 2013 for Forza Italia and The People of Freedom in four legislatures,as well as undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Economy and Finance from 12 May 2008 to 14 July 2010 in the fourth Berlusconi government. In 2023,Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation confirmed his conviction for external complicity in mafia association.
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023) was an Italian media mogul and Prime Minister of Italy who owned the largest broadcasting company in that country,Mediaset. His promises to sell off his personal assets to avoid conflicts of interest were never fulfilled,which sparked controversy throughout his terms in office. Berlusconi is a controversial figure in modern Italian politics:his tenure as Prime Minister was racked with scandalous sex affairs and poor judgement and decision-making. These events were widely covered by the media,drawing outcry from many of his Italian contemporaries and worldwide counterparts.
The via D'Amelio bombing was a terrorist attack by the Sicilian Mafia,which took place in Palermo,Sicily,Italy,on 19 July 1992. It killed Paolo Borsellino,the anti-mafia Italian magistrate,and five members of his police escort:Agostino Catalano,Emanuela Loi,Vincenzo Li Muli,Walter Eddie Cosina,and Claudio Traina.
The term State-Mafia Pact describes an alleged series of negotiations between important Italian government officials and Cosa Nostra members that began after the period of the 1992 and 1993 terror attacks by the Sicilian Mafia with the aim to reach a deal to stop the attacks;according to other sources and hypotheses,it began even earlier. In summary,the supposed cornerstone of the deal was an end to "the Massacre Season" in return for a reduction in the detention measures provided for Italy's Article 41-bis prison regime. 41-bis was the law by which the Antimafia pool led by Giovanni Falcone had condemned hundreds of mafia members to the "hard prison regime". The negotiation hypothesis has been the subject of long investigations,both by the courts and in the media. In 2021,the Court of Appeal of Palermo acquitted a close associate of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi,while upholding the sentences of the mafia bosses. This ruling was confirmed by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2023.
Donato Bruno was an Italian politician.
Sergio De Gregorio is an Italian politician and journalist.
Carlo Taormina is an Italian lawyer,politician,jurist,and academic. Taormina was the defense lawyer of some of the most controversial trials in modern Italian history,from that of the Ustica affair to the trial of the Nazi Erich Priebke,and to the Abu Omar case and the Cogne homicide case. He entered politics in 1996,joining Forza Italia,the political party of Silvio Berlusconi. That same year,he ran for the Chamber of Deputies but was not elected.
Amedeo Matacena was an Italian politician. Born in Catania,Sicily,into a family of shipowners with Calabrian ancestry,he was the owner of a maritime company,among the others family companies he inherited from his father.
