XVII
"Nuto Marradi."
"Nut... but wasn’t he blown up in a plane?!"
Until the scandal that had annihilated him, the politician whose skin I had almost certainly saved had enjoyed enormous respect, and in fact he was considered the next probable President of the Republic. His number one accuser had been Tartaglia Fioretti with his newspaper and two of his magazines, at the same time providing evidence to the judiciary that, over the course of fifteen years, Marradi had used straw people to illicitly constitute an international cartel with illicit proceeds obtained from political-economic fraud – a cartel which had become a fearsome competitor of the financier's trust. It was generally known that the day before the Chambers met in joint session for his impeachment and to grant the judiciary
