Vendetta: Truth, Lies and the Mafia (2021) s01e02 Episode Script
Death by Video
[suspenseful music playing]
A FEW HOURS LATER
THE CARABINIERI RELEASE A VIDEO
OF PINO MANIACI ALLEGEDLY
EXTORTING MONEY FROM THE LOCAL MAYOR
[newscaster 1] In Palermo,
an incredible story is unfolding.
From anti-Mafia champion to extortionist,
the double life of Pino Maniaci,
director of Telejato.
[Pino] I told you this was coming.
I warned you,
and you kept on making mistakes.
You want to keep on making mistakes.
[newscaster 2]
This is the other face of Pino Maniaci.
He is not a hero
fighting for the rule of law at all,
as revealed in secret recordings
by the Carabinieri as part of an inquiry
into the Mafia in Borgetto.
[Pino] So €366 plus 100
you still owe me, 466.
I need €466
because I need to go to the bank.
[newscaster 3] Journalist Pino Maniaci,
who is proclaimed the champion
of free and brave news,
has been accused of extorting
money to tone down his news reports.
[newscaster 4] Pino Maniaci
exposed criminals on Telejato,
and in Partinico, he fought the Mafia.
But for the prosecutor in Palermo,
he himself committed the same crimes
using the same methods as the Mafia.
[De Luca] Here's €100,
so you can get rid of some of that shit.
Two, three, four,
and five, and that's 200, 270, okay?
[Pino] They released a fucking DVD
with the aim of ruining
Pino Maniaci's reputation.
[camera lenses snapping rapidly]
[Parrino] As long as he fought the Mafia,
everyone was fine.
When he decided to attack the big guns,
Pino had to be stopped.
He had to be destroyed.
They put me with ten mafiosos
who we think are pieces of shit.
[music building up]
You have to ask yourselves,
"When will all this mess end?"
Ruining Pino Maniaci. Ruining Telejato,
to achieve what?
To shut us down.
[opening theme music playing]
A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES
[music fading out]
- [somber music playing]
- [horn honking]
MAY 2016
With everything that's come out,
this doesn't look good for you.
I know that.
It's really disgraceful,
and very disappointing.
[somber music playing]
The media has already sentenced me
without a trial.
Pino Maniaci isn't an extortioner.
Pino Maniaci
has never asked a dime from anyone,
except what is owed to him.
Pino Maniaci has had a lot of trouble.
- [journalist] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[thunder rumbling]
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [horns honking]
48 HOURS AFTER PINO MANIACI WAS CHARGED
NEWSROOM
[De Luca] Here's €100,
so you can get rid of some of that shit
Two, three, four, and five,
and that's 200, 270, okay?
[Pino] So this is the video
that incriminated me
and that was broadcast all over the world
to show that Pino Maniaci is an extorter.
I challenge anybody,
prosecutors, only an ignoramus,
the last of the idiots,
who fails to understand
that €366 is an invoice with VA
and not some kind of extortion.
[phone ringing]
Here it is. Now
Hello?
Yes.
Yes, what is it?
I get it.
I understand.
Give me half an hour?
Okay. Okay. Goodbye.
The Carabinieri have got the order.
They're going to serve it to me.
They're leaving now.
[calm music playing]
Okay.
Fuck. Is this for real, guys?
They're banishing you? To Sciacca, Pino?
Sciacca? Why? I decide where I go.
[Letizia] When it happened,
when my dad had to leave,
my world fell around me.
He had to leave Telejato.
He had to leave his family.
So that time was awful.
It's not just the Mafia who are the enemy,
but also the higher powers.
[newscaster 1] Pino Maniaci
is leaving Partinico.
From anti-Mafia hero to extortion suspect.
[newscaster 2] Today, the judges
banished him from Partinico.
He's no longer permitted to live
in the provinces of Trapani and Palermo.
[ominous music playing]
[magpie screeching]
[horn blaring]
[indistinct chatter]
[dogs barking]
[Pino] They're closing in on me.
Those who oppose the big guns,
get screwed in the ass.
They spread shit to destroy Pino Maniaci
and make him look like a fraud.
I have made some mistakes, of course.
I've made mistakes,
but I haven't committed extortion.
Their aim was to break up my family.
It's truly devastating
that the news was spread
at an international level.
[light-hearted music playing]
We'll start with the report
about me being banished.
You'll have everything by 1:00 p.m.
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
If anyone thought Telejato was closing,
you thought wrong.
Freedom of information continues
despite what I'm going through.
Pino Maniaci is being persecuted.
[music turning gloomy]
They want to stop this rabid dog
who is being accused
of extorting everyone.
Here is the report,
and we'll start by telling you
about the current situation.
- [man] Okay.
- You can send that now.
- [thunder rumbling]
- [indistinct chatter]
[Parrino] If you wanna stop me
from using TV to extort people,
you'll have to take my cameras away.
You've banned me from broadcasting.
That was just a measure
to change the public's opinion
of Telejato and Pino Maniaci.
First, there was the video
from the Carabinieri,
then there was the precautionary measure
that said that Pino Maniaci
had to be sent away.
This um This concoction,
this diabolical arrangement
What was the aim of it?
It was intended to show
that Pino Maniaci can't be trusted,
that he's a scoundrel, that he's a cheat.
[children playing]
[somber music playing]
[dogs barking]
20 DAYS LATER
MAY 2016
[newscaster on radio] Pino Maniaci
returned to anchor Telejato News.
The journalist was accused of extortion
by the public prosecutors of Palermo.
Now his Provision of Residence
is revoked due to an administrative error.
[upbeat music playing]
[Pino talking to dogs]
[Parrino] After 20 days, he returned home
and returned to broadcasting Telejato.
However, the road remains long
because he's still facing trial,
we have to defend ourselves against
the existing accusation of extortion.
[Pino] What is it? What is it?
What is it?
MISTER VANITY
HAIR FOR MEN AND WOMEN
[Pino] I went to Sciacca.
A judge can say a politician is corrupt,
but you can't say that a judge is corrupt
because as soon as you say
that a judge is stealing money,
that they're corrupt, they destroy you.
[indistinct chatter]
[Pino] I think
that any normal person in this situation,
would have reacted differently.
My reaction was quite strong.
I defended myself, tooth and nail,
at all costs,
[Pino talking]
[Pino and man chatting]
[Pino] Did you bring oranges?
What did you bring me?
[man] How are you?
Telejato is Telejato today
thanks to Salvo Vitale,
our pillar of strength.
Last night, he went crazy.
He went so crazy last night.
He's been with me
through good times and bad,
since the start.
Peaches!
You know I like them.
The basket doesn't mean I bought them.
They're from my garden.
[Pino] Wonderful.
[Salvo] I've been working here
for almost 20 years.
I've always investigated the Mafia,
the environment, and the local news.
Pino is like a kamikaze,
who isn't afraid of anybody.
I don't think he'd fight
if he didn't think that something
would slowly but surely come from it.
[Pino] So, I have two aims.
One to save the TV station
because like I said,
they closed my bank account.
Everything went up in smoke.
Maybe they'll cut my phone line too.
We're completely screwed, if we shut down,
the world shuts down.
Two, get people's support back.
[Letizia] Rolling.
[calm music playing]
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
Whoever thought Telejato was closing down
[Pino] Some people thought
they had destroyed this TV station,
as you can see, they were wrong.
They were wrong because
even with everything
that has happened in the media
in recent days
Telejato has fought back.
From this point of view,
Pino is extremely stubborn and determined.
So he starts his investigation again
into the Preventive Measures Department
and continues to accuse its president,
Judge Silvana Saguto.
How will the Saguto case end?
The newspapers don't talk about it.
They don't talk about it.
It's one of the biggest scandals
of this century,
managing the seized Mafia assets
for personal use.
[music stops]
The first reports that we did
about preventive measures, on this theft
of confiscated goods, were back in 2013.
[calm music playing]
Now, dear Judge Saguto,
MARCH 2013
you are obsessed with power,
and you say
you managed the seized Mafia assets
for the collective good
not to line your friends' pockets?
You know what they say,
as the mouse said to the nut,
"Give me time and I'll crack you."
We'll see whether there will be
an arrest warrant, or a search.
- [music turning darker]
- [seagulls squawking]
[music fading]
[serene music playing]
[horns honking]
[door closing]
- [Saguto] How are you?
- [man] Good. Thanks.
[Saguto] Is this my car? No.
SILVANA SAGUTO IS UNDER INVESTIGATION
HER JUDGE TITLE IS AT RISK
[Saguto] Palermo is full of plaques.
Strangely, in Palermo, for a long time
people have referred to places saying,
"Where Judge Terranova was killed."
"Where Judge Chinnici was killed."
"Where Borsellino was killed."
"Do you know where Falcone was killed?"
It's very sad, and I think it only
it only happens in Palermo.
Look, the Mafia is quieter again
and so, I think, more dangerous
because no one's fighting them.
WE SHOUT, WE CHEER
BALLARÒ IS MAGIC!
See that building?
I seized it,
I confiscated it and fixed it.
It was one of
the first things I confiscated.
When I arrived
at the Preventive Measures Department,
as the president,
I increased the number
of preventive measures by 400%.
Here, for example, I confiscated
the fruit and vegetable market.
Nothing was legal
about that fruit and vegetable market,
and they complained because we ruined
their flourishing, and illegal, business.
[music becoming suspenseful]
People were scared of what I was doing
because no one had ever gotten
the same results.
[reporter] The investigations
stem from complaints
about the appointment
of a group of administrators
that made huge financial gains.
"I'm completely above suspicion,"
says Judge Saguto.
"And I request to be heard immediately,
so I can clear my reputation."
It's crazy. Crazy.
TO THE VICTIMS
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MAFIA
The anti-Mafia Mafia.
This is really serious.
And it's devastating.
The judicial administrators,
after they got their money,
left businesses to go bankrupt.
[church bells ringing]
Isn't that great?
The anti-Mafia Mafia.
No one else
wanted to confront Judge Saguto.
Why?
Because she has
such strong influence and power,
that she just has to say the word,
and she can bring down half of Italy.
[music intensifying]
[Saguto] I'm just waiting.
There's nothing else to do.
I'm not scared.
I read what Telejato published recently,
but, obviously,
I'm not going to reply to Telejato.
[birds chirping]
[happy keyboard music playing]
[knocking on the door]
[Patrizia] No, not yet, Giovanni.
- [Letizia] Come in.
- [Patrizia] Pino's not having pasta.
[Giovanni] Really?
Am I wrong, or did you just want dessert?
[Giovanni] No, no.
[people talking in the background]
[Giovanni] Even if there was
some extortion,
why did they have to lump him in
with the Mafia?
Arresting him with his worst enemies,
so that anyone looking
at those photos would think
I think the idea is that Pino Maniaci
was the same as them, right?
Stay there.
[Giovanni] Because I think
that their goal was to
If these people hate him,
their aim was to make them hate him
even more, right?
[serene music playing]
PINO MANIACI IS ON TRIAL
WITH ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE BORGETTO MAFIA
[seagulls squawking]
THE CARABINIERI OPERATION
AGAINST THE BORGETTO MAFIA
IS CALLED KELEVRA
[music fading]
[Pino] The terrible thing
about operation Kelevra
was being imprisoned
at the Partinico Carabinieri Station,
as it happened,
with all the mafiosos
I had always badmouthed.
Seeing all that riffraff next to me,
was scary.
JUNE 2011
Nicolò Salto, who is often named
as the boss of the Borgetto Mafia,
has been placed under house arrest,
and therefore, he's back with us.
[somber music playing]
[Pino] Nicolò Salto
had Borgetto in his hands.
And when I saw him in Borgetto,
going into a pharmacy,
he threatened me
by saying that I should buy
three meters of rope
and find a tree to hang myself from.
That's the price you pay
for being a certain kind of journalist.
[dramatic music playing]
Kelevra is becoming a shit show
because by putting Pino Maniaci
with the people he was fighting,
it sent a message that,
"You're all the same thing."
That's what the prosecutors
of Palermo wanted to do.
It worked. It worked pretty well.
And then obviously, all together,
they decided to make me pay.
They are the ones with all the power.
[music becoming suspenseful]
PALERMO INTERNATIONAL AIRPOR
FALCONE AND BORSELLINO
[music becoming calm]
[man] I started my career
as a public prosecutor in Palermo
working on Mafia cases,
the relationship
between the State and the Mafia.
This is what made me popular.
PINO MANIACI'S LAWYER
Now, I'm a lawyer.
I defend citizens
who are victims of injustice,
and this is why
I came to Sicily, to defend Pino Maniaci.
Coming from the airport,
you pass the site of the Capaci Bombing,
where Giovanni Falcone died.
He was
one of the most famous judges in Palermo.
I was very lucky,
lucky to start my career
in the right place, at the right time,
let's say.
I worked with the best in the field,
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
I started my career
as a public prosecutor with Borsellino.
We liked each other straight away,
and we became friends.
On May 23rd, 1992,
I drove along the same motorway
Giovanni Falcone died on two hours later.
AMBULANCE
[ambulance honking]
MAY 23, 1992
[dramatic music playing]
A few months later,
Paolo Borsellino was killed.
[car alarm blaring]
He was blown up
outside his mother's house.
And when Borsellino died,
it was like the end of everything.
I was distraught
because not only was my boss dead,
not only was my teacher dead,
but my friend was dead.
[applauding]
And from then on, I dedicated myself
to investigations to find out the truth
behind those terrible events.
Pino Maniaci made his name on TV,
and he was destroyed on TV.
That video was the murder weapon.
[music turning suspenseful]
Tomorrow is an important day
in Pino Maniaci's trial.
We have to convince
the judges that his case
should be severed
from the other defendants'.
Because those defendants
have always been the enemy.
[doorbell buzzing]
He accused them of being mafiosos.
They can't and mustn't be tried together.
[Pino hitting the intercom] Oh, shit.
[door buzzing]
The light?
Where's the light?
Look, the light! They still haven't cut
the electricity off.
[Ingroia] Pino Maniaci
has been accused of serious crimes.
Extortion, attempted extortion,
and defamation.
He risks ten years
in prison for extortion alone.
[Parrino] So let's discuss
the process of separating this trial.
The prosecutor will object.
There's a 90% chance
that the judge will reject it,
but we have to put it on record.
We'll see what they do,
whether they retire to their chambers
or if they stay there
and decide straight away.
NEWSROOM
OCTOBER 2017
KELEVRA TRIAL
SEPARATION OF THE HEARING
[indistinct chatter]
[coughing]
[chairs being pulled]
[silence in the courtroom]
The request under review
is founded on the premise
that the crimes
that Maniaci is accused of,
have nothing to do with the crimes
the other defendants are accused of.
And we find that Giuseppe Maniaci
should be removed from this trial.
- [Pino] Congratulations.
- So, the first success.
- Tell your lawyers "congratulations."
- Congratulations.
[Ingroia] His trial continues.
There are serious charges, extortion,
attempted extortion, defamation.
We hope to win on all fronts.
[newscaster] The motion
from Maniaci's defense team was granted.
He won't be tried
alongside other Mafia defendants
because he has nothing to do
with their charges.
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
I will be tried alone.
If we were playing soccer,
we'd say, "Two-nil to the defense."
The judge decided to remove me
from a case that I had nothing to do with.
You can imagine [sighs]
the wonderful glances directed my way
from behind the glass.
[indistinct music playing]
Let's roll forward.
We will continue in this fight,
fighting criminals
and mafiosos with no ifs or buts,
regardless of what happens to me, always.
[sirens blaring]
AFTER ABOUT TWO YEARS
THE INVESTIGATION
INTO SILVANA SAGUTO COMES TO AN END
[dramatic music playing]
[newscaster1 ] Everything is clear.
The prosecution of Caltanissetta
has indicted Silvana Saguto,
following a five-hour-long debate.
She's been accused of creating a system
to manage assets seized from the Mafia.
[newscaster 2] From corruption
to embezzlement, the charges are serious.
[newscaster 3] She's accused of managing
the controversial department
for the custody of seized
and confiscated Mafia assets
like a family business.
[Saguto] When I found out
that the accusations were corruption,
embezzlement, and abuse of power,
I thought that my colleagues were crazy,
and I was furious.
When it emerged that Judge Saguto
was being investigated
for a series of serious crimes,
it was definitely big news.
- [thunder rumbling]
- [dramatic music playing]
No one expected that the president
would be involved in such serious crimes.
[reporter] "It's a huge blow to a credible
institution," write the magistrates.
It's made even worse by the fact
that it happened in the same department
that represents legality and commitment
to fighting criminal activity.
Then we found out that not only
was Saguto implicated as the president,
but also her family.
[dramatic music playing]
CRIMINAL CHARGES
CORRUPTION - EMBEZZLEMEN
FORGERY
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
CRIMINAL CHARGES
PLAGIARISM OF DISSERTATION
CRIMINAL CHARGES
MONEY LAUNDERING
[Saguto] How could my colleagues think
that I was corrupt?
39 CHARGES INCLUDING
FORGERY
ABUSE OF POWER
CORRUPTION
EMBEZZLEMEN
VIOLATING PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENTIALITY
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
[reporter] They were all charged with
corruption, Silvana Saguto,
her husband, Lorenzo Caramma,
and the most well-known
court administrator,
Palermo lawyer
Gaetano Cappellano Seminara.
Saguto was accused of favoring
Cappellano Seminara's appointment
in exchange for payoffs.
It has emerged that Cappellano Seminara
suggested an asset for seizure.
Silvana Seguro seized it,
and named Cappellano as the administrator.
He would then cash in a huge payment,
often based on
an excessive evaluation of the asset,
then he named Silvana Saguto's husband
as his collaborator,
and so a portion of what he had cashed in
went back to Saguto's family
as Saguto's husband's salary.
[reporter] She's accused of cronyism
with regard to assets
seized from the Mafia,
through a magic circle
of court administrators.
[Pino] A magic circle.
A banquet for a few people.
I don't know how to explain it.
[Parrino] Pino Maniaci was right.
The anti-Mafia had over-reached
and had become a sort of hidden power,
a way of profiting,
making money, and doing business.
[music building up]
[music abruptly stops]
[dramatic music playing]
A FEW HOURS LATER
THE CARABINIERI RELEASE A VIDEO
OF PINO MANIACI ALLEGEDLY
EXTORTING MONEY FROM THE LOCAL MAYOR
[newscaster 1] In Palermo,
an incredible story is unfolding.
From anti-Mafia champion to extortionist,
the double life of Pino Maniaci,
director of Telejato.
[Pino] I told you this was coming.
I warned you,
and you kept on making mistakes.
You want to keep on making mistakes.
[newscaster 2]
This is the other face of Pino Maniaci.
He is not a hero
fighting for the rule of law at all,
as revealed in secret recordings
by the Carabinieri as part of an inquiry
into the Mafia in Borgetto.
[Pino] So €366 plus 100
you still owe me, 466.
I need €466
because I need to go to the bank.
[newscaster 3] Journalist Pino Maniaci,
who is proclaimed the champion
of free and brave news,
has been accused of extorting
money to tone down his news reports.
[newscaster 4] Pino Maniaci
exposed criminals on Telejato,
and in Partinico, he fought the Mafia.
But for the prosecutor in Palermo,
he himself committed the same crimes
using the same methods as the Mafia.
[De Luca] Here's €100,
so you can get rid of some of that shit.
Two, three, four,
and five, and that's 200, 270, okay?
[Pino] They released a fucking DVD
with the aim of ruining
Pino Maniaci's reputation.
[camera lenses snapping rapidly]
[Parrino] As long as he fought the Mafia,
everyone was fine.
When he decided to attack the big guns,
Pino had to be stopped.
He had to be destroyed.
They put me with ten mafiosos
who we think are pieces of shit.
[music building up]
You have to ask yourselves,
"When will all this mess end?"
Ruining Pino Maniaci. Ruining Telejato,
to achieve what?
To shut us down.
[opening theme music playing]
A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES
[music fading out]
- [somber music playing]
- [horn honking]
MAY 2016
With everything that's come out,
this doesn't look good for you.
I know that.
It's really disgraceful,
and very disappointing.
[somber music playing]
The media has already sentenced me
without a trial.
Pino Maniaci isn't an extortioner.
Pino Maniaci
has never asked a dime from anyone,
except what is owed to him.
Pino Maniaci has had a lot of trouble.
- [journalist] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[thunder rumbling]
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [horns honking]
48 HOURS AFTER PINO MANIACI WAS CHARGED
NEWSROOM
[De Luca] Here's €100,
so you can get rid of some of that shit
Two, three, four, and five,
and that's 200, 270, okay?
[Pino] So this is the video
that incriminated me
and that was broadcast all over the world
to show that Pino Maniaci is an extorter.
I challenge anybody,
prosecutors, only an ignoramus,
the last of the idiots,
who fails to understand
that €366 is an invoice with VA
and not some kind of extortion.
[phone ringing]
Here it is. Now
Hello?
Yes.
Yes, what is it?
I get it.
I understand.
Give me half an hour?
Okay. Okay. Goodbye.
The Carabinieri have got the order.
They're going to serve it to me.
They're leaving now.
[calm music playing]
Okay.
Fuck. Is this for real, guys?
They're banishing you? To Sciacca, Pino?
Sciacca? Why? I decide where I go.
[Letizia] When it happened,
when my dad had to leave,
my world fell around me.
He had to leave Telejato.
He had to leave his family.
So that time was awful.
It's not just the Mafia who are the enemy,
but also the higher powers.
[newscaster 1] Pino Maniaci
is leaving Partinico.
From anti-Mafia hero to extortion suspect.
[newscaster 2] Today, the judges
banished him from Partinico.
He's no longer permitted to live
in the provinces of Trapani and Palermo.
[ominous music playing]
[magpie screeching]
[horn blaring]
[indistinct chatter]
[dogs barking]
[Pino] They're closing in on me.
Those who oppose the big guns,
get screwed in the ass.
They spread shit to destroy Pino Maniaci
and make him look like a fraud.
I have made some mistakes, of course.
I've made mistakes,
but I haven't committed extortion.
Their aim was to break up my family.
It's truly devastating
that the news was spread
at an international level.
[light-hearted music playing]
We'll start with the report
about me being banished.
You'll have everything by 1:00 p.m.
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
If anyone thought Telejato was closing,
you thought wrong.
Freedom of information continues
despite what I'm going through.
Pino Maniaci is being persecuted.
[music turning gloomy]
They want to stop this rabid dog
who is being accused
of extorting everyone.
Here is the report,
and we'll start by telling you
about the current situation.
- [man] Okay.
- You can send that now.
- [thunder rumbling]
- [indistinct chatter]
[Parrino] If you wanna stop me
from using TV to extort people,
you'll have to take my cameras away.
You've banned me from broadcasting.
That was just a measure
to change the public's opinion
of Telejato and Pino Maniaci.
First, there was the video
from the Carabinieri,
then there was the precautionary measure
that said that Pino Maniaci
had to be sent away.
This um This concoction,
this diabolical arrangement
What was the aim of it?
It was intended to show
that Pino Maniaci can't be trusted,
that he's a scoundrel, that he's a cheat.
[children playing]
[somber music playing]
[dogs barking]
20 DAYS LATER
MAY 2016
[newscaster on radio] Pino Maniaci
returned to anchor Telejato News.
The journalist was accused of extortion
by the public prosecutors of Palermo.
Now his Provision of Residence
is revoked due to an administrative error.
[upbeat music playing]
[Pino talking to dogs]
[Parrino] After 20 days, he returned home
and returned to broadcasting Telejato.
However, the road remains long
because he's still facing trial,
we have to defend ourselves against
the existing accusation of extortion.
[Pino] What is it? What is it?
What is it?
MISTER VANITY
HAIR FOR MEN AND WOMEN
[Pino] I went to Sciacca.
A judge can say a politician is corrupt,
but you can't say that a judge is corrupt
because as soon as you say
that a judge is stealing money,
that they're corrupt, they destroy you.
[indistinct chatter]
[Pino] I think
that any normal person in this situation,
would have reacted differently.
My reaction was quite strong.
I defended myself, tooth and nail,
at all costs,
[Pino talking]
[Pino and man chatting]
[Pino] Did you bring oranges?
What did you bring me?
[man] How are you?
Telejato is Telejato today
thanks to Salvo Vitale,
our pillar of strength.
Last night, he went crazy.
He went so crazy last night.
He's been with me
through good times and bad,
since the start.
Peaches!
You know I like them.
The basket doesn't mean I bought them.
They're from my garden.
[Pino] Wonderful.
[Salvo] I've been working here
for almost 20 years.
I've always investigated the Mafia,
the environment, and the local news.
Pino is like a kamikaze,
who isn't afraid of anybody.
I don't think he'd fight
if he didn't think that something
would slowly but surely come from it.
[Pino] So, I have two aims.
One to save the TV station
because like I said,
they closed my bank account.
Everything went up in smoke.
Maybe they'll cut my phone line too.
We're completely screwed, if we shut down,
the world shuts down.
Two, get people's support back.
[Letizia] Rolling.
[calm music playing]
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
Whoever thought Telejato was closing down
[Pino] Some people thought
they had destroyed this TV station,
as you can see, they were wrong.
They were wrong because
even with everything
that has happened in the media
in recent days
Telejato has fought back.
From this point of view,
Pino is extremely stubborn and determined.
So he starts his investigation again
into the Preventive Measures Department
and continues to accuse its president,
Judge Silvana Saguto.
How will the Saguto case end?
The newspapers don't talk about it.
They don't talk about it.
It's one of the biggest scandals
of this century,
managing the seized Mafia assets
for personal use.
[music stops]
The first reports that we did
about preventive measures, on this theft
of confiscated goods, were back in 2013.
[calm music playing]
Now, dear Judge Saguto,
MARCH 2013
you are obsessed with power,
and you say
you managed the seized Mafia assets
for the collective good
not to line your friends' pockets?
You know what they say,
as the mouse said to the nut,
"Give me time and I'll crack you."
We'll see whether there will be
an arrest warrant, or a search.
- [music turning darker]
- [seagulls squawking]
[music fading]
[serene music playing]
[horns honking]
[door closing]
- [Saguto] How are you?
- [man] Good. Thanks.
[Saguto] Is this my car? No.
SILVANA SAGUTO IS UNDER INVESTIGATION
HER JUDGE TITLE IS AT RISK
[Saguto] Palermo is full of plaques.
Strangely, in Palermo, for a long time
people have referred to places saying,
"Where Judge Terranova was killed."
"Where Judge Chinnici was killed."
"Where Borsellino was killed."
"Do you know where Falcone was killed?"
It's very sad, and I think it only
it only happens in Palermo.
Look, the Mafia is quieter again
and so, I think, more dangerous
because no one's fighting them.
WE SHOUT, WE CHEER
BALLARÒ IS MAGIC!
See that building?
I seized it,
I confiscated it and fixed it.
It was one of
the first things I confiscated.
When I arrived
at the Preventive Measures Department,
as the president,
I increased the number
of preventive measures by 400%.
Here, for example, I confiscated
the fruit and vegetable market.
Nothing was legal
about that fruit and vegetable market,
and they complained because we ruined
their flourishing, and illegal, business.
[music becoming suspenseful]
People were scared of what I was doing
because no one had ever gotten
the same results.
[reporter] The investigations
stem from complaints
about the appointment
of a group of administrators
that made huge financial gains.
"I'm completely above suspicion,"
says Judge Saguto.
"And I request to be heard immediately,
so I can clear my reputation."
It's crazy. Crazy.
TO THE VICTIMS
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MAFIA
The anti-Mafia Mafia.
This is really serious.
And it's devastating.
The judicial administrators,
after they got their money,
left businesses to go bankrupt.
[church bells ringing]
Isn't that great?
The anti-Mafia Mafia.
No one else
wanted to confront Judge Saguto.
Why?
Because she has
such strong influence and power,
that she just has to say the word,
and she can bring down half of Italy.
[music intensifying]
[Saguto] I'm just waiting.
There's nothing else to do.
I'm not scared.
I read what Telejato published recently,
but, obviously,
I'm not going to reply to Telejato.
[birds chirping]
[happy keyboard music playing]
[knocking on the door]
[Patrizia] No, not yet, Giovanni.
- [Letizia] Come in.
- [Patrizia] Pino's not having pasta.
[Giovanni] Really?
Am I wrong, or did you just want dessert?
[Giovanni] No, no.
[people talking in the background]
[Giovanni] Even if there was
some extortion,
why did they have to lump him in
with the Mafia?
Arresting him with his worst enemies,
so that anyone looking
at those photos would think
I think the idea is that Pino Maniaci
was the same as them, right?
Stay there.
[Giovanni] Because I think
that their goal was to
If these people hate him,
their aim was to make them hate him
even more, right?
[serene music playing]
PINO MANIACI IS ON TRIAL
WITH ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE BORGETTO MAFIA
[seagulls squawking]
THE CARABINIERI OPERATION
AGAINST THE BORGETTO MAFIA
IS CALLED KELEVRA
[music fading]
[Pino] The terrible thing
about operation Kelevra
was being imprisoned
at the Partinico Carabinieri Station,
as it happened,
with all the mafiosos
I had always badmouthed.
Seeing all that riffraff next to me,
was scary.
JUNE 2011
Nicolò Salto, who is often named
as the boss of the Borgetto Mafia,
has been placed under house arrest,
and therefore, he's back with us.
[somber music playing]
[Pino] Nicolò Salto
had Borgetto in his hands.
And when I saw him in Borgetto,
going into a pharmacy,
he threatened me
by saying that I should buy
three meters of rope
and find a tree to hang myself from.
That's the price you pay
for being a certain kind of journalist.
[dramatic music playing]
Kelevra is becoming a shit show
because by putting Pino Maniaci
with the people he was fighting,
it sent a message that,
"You're all the same thing."
That's what the prosecutors
of Palermo wanted to do.
It worked. It worked pretty well.
And then obviously, all together,
they decided to make me pay.
They are the ones with all the power.
[music becoming suspenseful]
PALERMO INTERNATIONAL AIRPOR
FALCONE AND BORSELLINO
[music becoming calm]
[man] I started my career
as a public prosecutor in Palermo
working on Mafia cases,
the relationship
between the State and the Mafia.
This is what made me popular.
PINO MANIACI'S LAWYER
Now, I'm a lawyer.
I defend citizens
who are victims of injustice,
and this is why
I came to Sicily, to defend Pino Maniaci.
Coming from the airport,
you pass the site of the Capaci Bombing,
where Giovanni Falcone died.
He was
one of the most famous judges in Palermo.
I was very lucky,
lucky to start my career
in the right place, at the right time,
let's say.
I worked with the best in the field,
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
I started my career
as a public prosecutor with Borsellino.
We liked each other straight away,
and we became friends.
On May 23rd, 1992,
I drove along the same motorway
Giovanni Falcone died on two hours later.
AMBULANCE
[ambulance honking]
MAY 23, 1992
[dramatic music playing]
A few months later,
Paolo Borsellino was killed.
[car alarm blaring]
He was blown up
outside his mother's house.
And when Borsellino died,
it was like the end of everything.
I was distraught
because not only was my boss dead,
not only was my teacher dead,
but my friend was dead.
[applauding]
And from then on, I dedicated myself
to investigations to find out the truth
behind those terrible events.
Pino Maniaci made his name on TV,
and he was destroyed on TV.
That video was the murder weapon.
[music turning suspenseful]
Tomorrow is an important day
in Pino Maniaci's trial.
We have to convince
the judges that his case
should be severed
from the other defendants'.
Because those defendants
have always been the enemy.
[doorbell buzzing]
He accused them of being mafiosos.
They can't and mustn't be tried together.
[Pino hitting the intercom] Oh, shit.
[door buzzing]
The light?
Where's the light?
Look, the light! They still haven't cut
the electricity off.
[Ingroia] Pino Maniaci
has been accused of serious crimes.
Extortion, attempted extortion,
and defamation.
He risks ten years
in prison for extortion alone.
[Parrino] So let's discuss
the process of separating this trial.
The prosecutor will object.
There's a 90% chance
that the judge will reject it,
but we have to put it on record.
We'll see what they do,
whether they retire to their chambers
or if they stay there
and decide straight away.
NEWSROOM
OCTOBER 2017
KELEVRA TRIAL
SEPARATION OF THE HEARING
[indistinct chatter]
[coughing]
[chairs being pulled]
[silence in the courtroom]
The request under review
is founded on the premise
that the crimes
that Maniaci is accused of,
have nothing to do with the crimes
the other defendants are accused of.
And we find that Giuseppe Maniaci
should be removed from this trial.
- [Pino] Congratulations.
- So, the first success.
- Tell your lawyers "congratulations."
- Congratulations.
[Ingroia] His trial continues.
There are serious charges, extortion,
attempted extortion, defamation.
We hope to win on all fronts.
[newscaster] The motion
from Maniaci's defense team was granted.
He won't be tried
alongside other Mafia defendants
because he has nothing to do
with their charges.
[Pino] Welcome to today's Telejato News.
I will be tried alone.
If we were playing soccer,
we'd say, "Two-nil to the defense."
The judge decided to remove me
from a case that I had nothing to do with.
You can imagine [sighs]
the wonderful glances directed my way
from behind the glass.
[indistinct music playing]
Let's roll forward.
We will continue in this fight,
fighting criminals
and mafiosos with no ifs or buts,
regardless of what happens to me, always.
[sirens blaring]
AFTER ABOUT TWO YEARS
THE INVESTIGATION
INTO SILVANA SAGUTO COMES TO AN END
[dramatic music playing]
[newscaster1 ] Everything is clear.
The prosecution of Caltanissetta
has indicted Silvana Saguto,
following a five-hour-long debate.
She's been accused of creating a system
to manage assets seized from the Mafia.
[newscaster 2] From corruption
to embezzlement, the charges are serious.
[newscaster 3] She's accused of managing
the controversial department
for the custody of seized
and confiscated Mafia assets
like a family business.
[Saguto] When I found out
that the accusations were corruption,
embezzlement, and abuse of power,
I thought that my colleagues were crazy,
and I was furious.
When it emerged that Judge Saguto
was being investigated
for a series of serious crimes,
it was definitely big news.
- [thunder rumbling]
- [dramatic music playing]
No one expected that the president
would be involved in such serious crimes.
[reporter] "It's a huge blow to a credible
institution," write the magistrates.
It's made even worse by the fact
that it happened in the same department
that represents legality and commitment
to fighting criminal activity.
Then we found out that not only
was Saguto implicated as the president,
but also her family.
[dramatic music playing]
CRIMINAL CHARGES
CORRUPTION - EMBEZZLEMEN
FORGERY
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
CRIMINAL CHARGES
PLAGIARISM OF DISSERTATION
CRIMINAL CHARGES
MONEY LAUNDERING
[Saguto] How could my colleagues think
that I was corrupt?
39 CHARGES INCLUDING
FORGERY
ABUSE OF POWER
CORRUPTION
EMBEZZLEMEN
VIOLATING PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENTIALITY
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
[reporter] They were all charged with
corruption, Silvana Saguto,
her husband, Lorenzo Caramma,
and the most well-known
court administrator,
Palermo lawyer
Gaetano Cappellano Seminara.
Saguto was accused of favoring
Cappellano Seminara's appointment
in exchange for payoffs.
It has emerged that Cappellano Seminara
suggested an asset for seizure.
Silvana Seguro seized it,
and named Cappellano as the administrator.
He would then cash in a huge payment,
often based on
an excessive evaluation of the asset,
then he named Silvana Saguto's husband
as his collaborator,
and so a portion of what he had cashed in
went back to Saguto's family
as Saguto's husband's salary.
[reporter] She's accused of cronyism
with regard to assets
seized from the Mafia,
through a magic circle
of court administrators.
[Pino] A magic circle.
A banquet for a few people.
I don't know how to explain it.
[Parrino] Pino Maniaci was right.
The anti-Mafia had over-reached
and had become a sort of hidden power,
a way of profiting,
making money, and doing business.
[music building up]
[music abruptly stops]
[dramatic music playing]