Libero, Sporting Justice is not the only joke, but the entire Italian Justice system. Summer 2006 is but a single example, yet it perfectly illustrates the circus. Punish first, then invstigate. Guilty until you prove you were innocent. This is why Italy convicts most and then all are overturned on appeal. I say "most" and not "all" because Berlusca has been acquitted all 6 times so far.
It is an impossibilty for any tribunal to consider more than one million recorded conversations during a 10 day hearing. Not enough hours to listen to them.
If it were possible then why is the Moggi trial in its 5th year?
Moggi has been named the head of a criminal enterprise, but has there been any evidence that Moggi acted differently from the other 19 similarly situated Serie A executives? NO.
Telecom Italia chief Signore Dickhead Troncheta Provera is an Inter director and investor.
Telecom Italia wiretapped all clubs.
Telecom Italia "lost" the recordings from Internazionale.
Guido Rossi, ex-director of Internazionale was appointed FIGC President.
His first act as President (during a time where corruption and mistrust were the order of the day) was to go to Inter and get a couple jerseys for the grandkids - no bias and favortism could be coming.
His second act as President was to declare 3rd place Inter as Champions of Italy. No corruption there.
His third and final act was to strip 2nd place Milan of just enough points to deny them the Scudetto, but not so many that the Berlusconi Boys would miss out on Champions League money.
Guido Rossi was then made President of Telecom Italia.
Typical Italian corruption? YES, but how is Moggi the crook?
Your balls have now been talked off.
You disappoint, Pepponzio. You really disappoint.
Regarding Silvio B., he wasn't acquitted 6 times.
In some of the trials he has benefited from statute of limitations, notably after he and his yesmen in Parliament drastically reduced the deadline of said statute of limitations.
Then there is roughly a dozen ad personam laws (some fortunately declared unconstitutional) that have allowed him to escape a condemnation.
Such as false accounting turned into a non-criminal offence, the "Cirami law" allowing him to move the trial to another juridiction (and re-start it from scratch) if there is a "legitimate suspicion" about the impartiality of the current court, the infamous "lodo Schifani", its ugly little brother the "lodo Alfano", etc.
Just this weekend I am being asked to vote in a referendum on the proposed "legitimate impediment" law. I.e. the possibility for the PM not to attend his trials due to the commitments of his job. If, as expected, the law is rejected, we might have some interesting developments ahead.
Regarding the Italian justice system and all its faults, I think I might still prefer it over the American counterpart.
I mean what do you make of the Strauss-Kahn story these days? I can't feel much pity for the ultimate representative of France's "caviar Left", but......handcuffed and exhibited to the press, Bernardo Provenzano-style?? Placed under house arrest, but not before paying a 5 million dollar bail (could Tyrone from Camden afford the same priviledge)??
WTF!
Now as for Calciopoli, the reason the sports justice is not credible is indeed because it was influenced by external factors and the pressure of time to apply just punishments. With an impending World Cup and with the importance of the teams involved, it decided to send Juve to B (an utter joke considering the gravity of the accusations) and to give mere deductions to Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina (joke number 2).
The ordinary justice, on the other hand, is proving or has proved everything that needs to be proven regarding the unprecedentledly criminal character of the association.
Blackmailing and/or buying of presidents, referees, vice-presidents of FIGC, referee designators, player agents.....ffs what more do you need? If you don't "send away" a band of delinquents like this, you might as well send away the rules as a whole.
Sorry, but you should be grateful for not going down after the doping scandal already ("a pharmacy equal to that of a mid-sized hospital" was the judge's conclusion!).
For which, as a reminder, Agricola and Giraudo were condemned, while the pharmacist that supplied Agricola opted for the aforementioned "patteggiamento" too (i.e. admission of guilt in exchange of a lighter sentence) before disappearing.
Again, like Giraudo himself for Calciopoli. Giraudo, not White Snow.
Antonio Giraudo, the FIAT man with a finger in every pie, felt so overwhelmed by the evidence, that he admitted his guilt and dropped out of sight.
Moggi on the other hand, the station master who by some godly miracle ended up as the "King's groom who knows all the horses' thieves" (dixit Gianni Agnelli), went the courageous way of prolonging the trial until it falls under statute of limitations.
Details, really.
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