Mol reports inside Privacy Guarantor can sleep peacefully for a while. The break with Secretary General Angelo Fanizza, who won much praise for his controversial decision to examine the emails of 200 of the Authority’s employees, makes identifying those who, for at least a year, have provided Rai’s broadcasts with key elements to build the “politicized” Guarantor narrative much more difficult. What we know since the Authority decided to sanction Reports on the violation of the privacy of Genaro Sangiuliano’s wife, ridiculed on state TV where she herself worked from a telephone call with her husband that was supposed to be kept secret. Coincidentally, after the Order of Journalists pardoned Ranucci, the other day the Rome Prosecutor’s Office was with prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini who asked for a halt to the same crimes against Ranucci and his attacking reporter. So only the Privacy Assurers remain opposed to the Report.
Ranucci was the first to know the contents of a letter Fanizza wrote to the owner of the IT Department, asking to violate the privacy of Privacy Guarantor employees. His sources preferred to violate the Underwriters’ Code of Ethics and the confidentiality obligations of the office they represent, relying on the impunity that was apparent yesterday.
Thinking badly is always a sin: Il Giornale wrote that after Ranucci’s attack on the ANM to defend the “No” cause in the judicial reform referendum, no decision could be taken peacefully against Ranucci. Imagine a judge of the most ideological current like Cascini – leader of Area, already in ANM and touched by the mud of the Luca Palamara case – a prosecutor who openly supports the same causes as Ranucci, a close friend of Milena Gabanelli and at home in the Report as many former journalists of investigative programs remember. In fact, together with his colleague Giulia Guccione, Cascini believes that the Report detectives could not have known that the conversation between Sangiuliano and his wife was recorded in a private residence, their house in the Reatino area. Certain important details escape the attention of even the best journalists, thereby avoiding investigation.
Cascini was Palamara’s right-hand man in ANM but he never paid attention to the subdivision of which the judge was accused, excluded from the justice system. But the two are such good friends that once, in October 2018, Cascini wrote to him to ask for free tickets to the Olimpico for his Roma-supporting son. A mistake that cost him, once he returned to Rome, came under fire from the ANM arbitrators.
However Roman prosecutors were also involved in the case that led to the final conviction of Piercamillo Davigo due to revelations made to him by Milan prosecutor Paolo Storari, related to the alleged Hungarian Inn. The former Mani Pulite sought advice from deputy prosecutor Cascini, who in Rome has been dealing with super fake witnesses in the “adjusted” punishment investigation at the Council of State. Instead of reporting Davigo for the tip and reporting it to judicial authorities, Cascini told him that he thought Amara was right. He was wrong, but whatever. All in the cavalry.
Confirming a climate of benevolence towards Ranucci on the part of a judiciary that leans more towards “No”, the blessing of anti-mafia oracle Nicola Gratteri could not be missed, slightly in the shadows after the television gaffe about a fake interview with Giovanni Falcone about career separation. Yesterday a brave anti-mafia prosecutor visited the Report’s editorial office and was greeted as a hero – as he should be – despite the impartiality that those who do this work, both executive and judiciary, must maintain. “Quite a few attacks on a great judge and a great man like Gratteri, they were passed on to him by others out of generosity, not to deceive but to inform,” Ranucci said in defense of the Calabrian prosecutor, who thanked him yesterday.
Meanwhile, the trail of the instigators of the attack on Ranucci’s home in Pomezia on October 16 expanded to include the Camorra and arms trafficking. Before Carlo Villani, Francesco Cascini, already a bold anti-‘Ndrangheta judge and Giuseppe’s younger brother, addressed the threats received by the Report host.
Yang in 2017 wrote to Palamara promoting himself as deputy prosecutor (which he later replaced) and supporting Cascini jr. “Now to the third Commission to defend your brother”, then the message “Francesco ok” appears. “Thank you Luca”, responded Giuseppe Cascini. More than just a prosecutor, to Ranucci the Cascini looked like a PM… familiar. FMan
