The pocketed seven million lire that made a system start to unravel
A Milan judge catches a cleaning manager pocketing cash - Mani Pulite on everyone’s lips; how do you fall from that high?
The pocketed seven million lire that made a system start to unravel
In this episode, we follow the moment a routine cash handoff in a Milan nursing home collides with a judge’s stakeout and sets loose a chain of events that tested Italy’s political order. What made a normalized system of party-funded kickbacks suddenly implode, and why did one man decide to talk?
Person: Mario Chiesa
Person: Antonio Di Pietro
Date: 17 February 1992
Topic: Mani Pulite / Tangentopoli…
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