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Clean Hands began in 1991, and got a break a year ago, when Luca Magni, owner of a cleaning company, got tired of paying tangenti, or kickbacks, for the contract to service a public nursing home. He led prosecutors to the facility's administrator, Mario Chiesa, a Socialist Party activist and Craxi associate. The police moved in, Chiesa squealed and the political house of cards began to collapse. Admits Clean Hands chief prosecutor Francesco Saverio Borrelli: "We had no idea when we started how deep this would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sick of It All | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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