Totò Cuffaro ends up in jail. The Court of Cassation upheld a sentence of seven years' imprisonment for the former governor of Sicily guilty of aiding and abetting aggravated Cosa Nostra and violation of the confidentiality of investigations.
The former governor of Sicily, Salvatore would be going to build up in prison in Rome. The ruling of the Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court presided over by Antonio Esposito definitively concluded the investigation called "moles to Dda" Palermo, who had seen the sentence in the second grade of the trial to 7 years imprisonment for Cuffaro, who loses in the condemnation also appointed a senator.
The Court ruled that in addition to the position of Cuffaro also for other 11 defendants including Michael Aiello, manager of private health in Sicily, was sentenced to 15 ½ years in prison. Yesterday, Attorney General John Galati asked the Court to postpone the position Cuffaro to restate the sentence downward. In particular, Cuffaro was convicted of having informed members of Cosa Nostra on-going investigations by the DDA in Palermo.
Wonder and dejection expressed Cuffaro defense immediately after the final sentence of the Supreme Court to 7 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting aggravated Cosa Nostra. "We are facing a sentence that arouses amazement and humiliation, says the lawyer Oreste Dominioni, who attended the reading device, and because the sentence Court of Appeals showed numerous deep erroneous in point of law or because the same pg with a well-argued request, asked to cancel the aggravating circumstance of mafia that would have remained a mere facilitation. "
Cuffaro was initially investigated and interrogated, July 1, 2003, in the event of the crime of collusion with the Mafia. According to prosecutors, he wanted help from the outside, in a systematic way, the Mafia organization, for example by winning a contest to two doctors recommended by your doctor-boss Giuseppe Guttadauro and accepting the constraints of the latter in the appointment of primary hospitals facilitating a variation to the plan of Palermo to allow the construction of a hypermarket on a plot of the boss's wife Gisella Greek: Cuffaro why he boycotted the authorizations for the construction of another shopping center, Villabate, not far from Brancaccio.
also Guttadauro would get through Cuffaro, Mimmo Miceli's candidacy, which the surgeon would direct expression mafia. One of the main favor, then, would have allowed the state to discover the bug that the boss was in the lounge.
The prosecution of the Mafia was, however, foundered in the face of developments in the investigation: he had discovered a second episode of the revelations of secrets, given to Cuffaro, and coordinated by the pool and adding Grasso Giuseppe Pignatone had preferred to focus on specific episodes and were considered reliable. The episode Guttadauro had become so one of the two aspects of the new challenge of aiding and abetting aggravated authorities must and disclosure of secrets of the Cosa Nostra.
Faced with the demand for external storage of the survey had dissociated the prosecutor Gaetano Paci, who in the summer of 2004, had left the pool, which included Nino Matteo, Maurizio De Lucia and Michele Prestipino. At the end of 2006 had also left Di Matteo, who had wanted to challenge the governor is open competition in the classroom. Of this crime, however, Cuffaro was then called to account, however, and is currently on trial before the Court of Palermo, where the prosecutor has asked for his sentence to 10 years.
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