I work with a guy that lives in Italy. I sent him an email this morning to confirm this, along with the info about Leonardo SpA... See his response below.
IT APPEARS ALL THE NEWS THAT WE ARE HEARING ABOUT ITALY AND ARRESTS ARE LIKELY FALSE…
Hello Sam,
Lot of crazy and never heard news …. Our president is one the most honest people I ever heard, his brother was assassinated by mafia and he was member of the Italian “Supreme Court” (Corte Costituzionale) . The president has limited power and the real power stays in the prime minister. None arrested, maybe low-level people but OK.
About Leonardo (I worked for them in the remediation as consultant in ERM and now we supply lot of permanganate) it is a very big state-owned corporation and recently we read about a couple of employees stole some data few years ago.
It is more probable that US influenced Italian elections in the ‘70s rather than Italians influences US nowadays…. There is a story in Italy stating that our former prime Minister (Renzi) and Obama were working together to help Biden to win … Bur Really Mr. Renzi is just a narcisist, some good ideas but too much of himself in the politics.
The Vatican story is weird but one of the old Cardinals (Card. Viganò) is part of the USA traditionalists organization supporting Trump. Maybe he said Vatican is working against Trump and for sure Vatican and Trump cannot be on the same page…
No worry about Italians we like US and we are too busy with our own stuff, we are more worried about what happened in Washington DC last week but I assume it is fixed..
All the best and stay safe !!
Lorenzo
Thanks, same basic reaction from my relatives in Rome.