Miguel Ángel Rodríguez was never a notary and about 40 years ago he stopped being the classic information journalist. It’s something else. Rodríguez, the MAR brand for the world of politics and the media, argued before the Supreme Court, in the trial that has just condemned the State Attorney General in the case of Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of the president of Madrid, that in his nuclear intervention in that matter with the diffusion of false or mutilated messages to win the story in favor of his boss’s partner, “he did not have the support of any source”. The source has been MAR for decades. First to model the arrival of José María Aznar in La Moncloa. Now advise Ayuso in his life-or-death duel against Pedro Sánchez, who overshadowed Alberto Núñez Feijóo. He wrote to Amador after the sentence: “Congratulations, you destroyed them.”
“He has no limits, being bad, he is number one,” recognizes with some admiration one of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez’s most notable victims within the PP. And he reasons in this way to underline that now, after decades of ostracism, after having abandoned Aznar, dedicating himself to consultancy and private audiovisual production and before taking the baton with a still very new Ayuso, Rodríguez has become more refined and is more in danger: “Before having a filter that was Aznar and his team, the things he does now would not have happened to him. The character, now, has no one above him who can stop him.”
One of the people who worked with Rodríguez in the PP for many years explains it in another way to praise the b side of his professional merits: “He is a great creative, he has many ideas, many good and some horror, and a lot of courage in taking them and presenting them to his bosses, but other times he exaggerates. He has become a character himself.”
Rodríguez has been with Ayuso for six years now, since he helped her in her first campaign to come to power in the Community of Madrid, but there is no sign of retirement. He wants more fights. With Aznar, between Valladolid, the Junta de Castilla y León and the national presidency of the PP, he remained for a decade, but in La Moncloa it lasted only two years. He claims that that exhibition, in which he claimed to be in the Council of Ministers despite only being Secretary of State for Communication, wore him out too much, that he had to give press conferences, appear in the foreground of the media, give interviews… What fascinates Rodríguez is advising in the shadows and acting not like a puppeteer but like Toni Nadal, Rafa’s uncle: “You can teach or improve the serve or the backhand, but what is exposed on the field of Roland Garros or in the Assembly It is Ayuso.”
In the current case of Alberto González Amador, of whom he has become a friend and admirer, the relationship occurred in two phases. First of all, in the midst of post-covid, a date between 2020 and 2021, when a series of executives from the Quirón group requested a hearing to present a health study. Rodríguez claims he referred them to the Ministry of Health because the matter was not within its jurisdiction. In the meantime, without specifying the date, Amador and Ayuso become a couple and the Madrid president’s chief of staff strengthens these contacts and begins to evaluate his international executive level.
In those months, at the height of the pandemic, Maxwell Cremona, Alberto González’s company, invoiced 1,009,527.02 euros to the company FCS Select Products SL, an organization based in Barcelona with contacts in China that began importing masks despite being dedicated to the energy drinks sector. This invoice is part of the complaint against the entrepreneur for alleged fraud of 350,951 euros in the fiscal years 2020 and 2021. In August 2020, another invoice for one million euros was added, which would correspond to a commission that increased his income to around two million.
González Amador’s company multiplied its sales of medical supplies by six and Maxwell Cremona went from 357,773 euros in 2019 to 2.3 million in 2020 and 1.3 million in 2021. In those years, the main customer of that company was Quirón Salud, which exponentially increased its business with the Community of Madrid.
In the environment of the Madrid president, who from the beginning of this fiscal and judicial process defended her boyfriend until the end even in the seat of the regional government, Amador is portrayed as “a charming and pleasant executive” who years ago earned more than the president of the government. The comparison is always with Sánchez.
Rodríguez confessed that she took the attacks on her boss over her boyfriend’s business as an affront and welcomed him to her defense. To the point of not understanding or accepting some of the efforts that his first lawyer made during this period, such as the fundamental acceptance of the agreement in agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office when he sent an eight-page document on February 2, 2024 in which he admitted that his client committed two tax crimes and detailed the penalty he had agreed to in order to avoid prison.
Sources close to Rodríguez assure that he did not know of the existence of that email from the lawyer Carlos Neira proposing the agreement when, on the night of March 13, he distributed to a list of journalists a message in which he denied the information from La Sexta, which in turn denied the false information provided by The world which read: “The Prosecutor’s Office offers a deal to Ayuso’s boyfriend for two tax crimes.” Rodríguez went further and even stated, in those messages, that the pact had been interrupted by orders from above, alluding to some intervention by the government leadership.
Ayuso’s super advisor justified that that night he acted on instinct without contacting his boss’s lawyer until the next day, when he verified that several media outlets were reporting the real and true version of the same lawyer’s initial settlement offer, called him and asked him if that information was true. Those around Rodríguez claim that if he had known, he would have issued a statement entitled: “Amador’s lawyer makes a deal with the Prosecutor’s Office.” It wasn’t like that.
Amador, in his appearance before the Supreme Court, reserved as his final blow an argument in which, addressing the State Attorney General, he accused him of destroying his life. The Madrid president’s team claims that Rodríguez did not prepare that scene, which came spontaneously to Amador. Rodríguez, of course, after the sentencing against Álvaro García Ortiz advanced, wrote to Amador, who was en route: “Congratulations, you have destroyed them.” Amador replied, “hehe, we’ll talk.”
