Judge Mesiano being tailed by Canale 5
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Judge Raimondo Mesiano is the man responsible for the sentence ordering Fininvest to pay De Benedetti’s “Cir” company 750 million Euro in compensation for the crooked sale of Mondadori. Back in 2007, the Court of Cassation found Previti guilty. “Cesarone” bribed a judge and, surprise-surprise, Mondadori landed up in the hands of Fininvest. He initially landed up in jail and is now in the care of social services. Now the damage done at the time has been quantified. That’s life and that’s what bribery does for you: 2.7 million Dollars paid over to a judge at the time in return for a favourable ruling. Mesiano’s ruling reads as follows: "In would be totally outside the natural order of humanity for a payment of around three billion Italian Lire to be made for the express purpose of bribery without the “headman” of the company making the payment knowing about it and agreeing to it". "It is a well-known fact that the Fininvest Spa company is owned by the Berlusconi family and that the entire company shareholding is held by a very small circle of partners". Your attorney bribes a judge in return for an ad-hoc ruling, paying him an enormous sum of money, just imagine, 3 billion, twenty years ago…and you expect us to believe that you knew nothing about it? You of all people, the very individual that stands to benefit from that ruling?
In recent days, in Benevento, the psychodwarf let slip that, as regards judge Mesiano: "You will be hearing some excellent stories very soon".
So ordered! Judge Mesiano was followed by Channel 5 television while on his way to his barber. The article is either simply an instigation to convulsive laughter or it was intended to be a P2-ist style intimidation of the judge.
Here are a number of supporting comments used in the "little report":
"...we have gotten used to his extravagant ways (precisely what extravagant ways would those be? Ed)... Raimondo Mesiano, the man, walks in the streets of Milan... in front of his favourite barber’s shop, he is impatient... he is unable to stop... back and forth... he stops... takes a drag on his cigarette and then, once again, back and forth (all we see is him taking a few steps and appears to be quite relaxed, Ed) ... before moving out of our line of sight (perhaps the word "tailing" would be more appropriate. Ed) then he does something else that is strange (there’s more? Ed)... look at him, sitting there on a bench, dressed in a shirt, blue pants, white shoes and turquoise socks (well, well, how strange is that, Ed)".
According to an article in the Financial Times, Fininvest has debts amounting to 1.7 billion Euro and assets worth 700 million Euro. That still leaves them short of another 50 to pay the fine, so perhaps we should pass the hat around.