Posted on 05/21/2006 8:28:30 AM PDT by an italian
ITALIAN JUSTICE MINISTER LINKED TO MAFIA INQUIRY
Prodi forced to name man holding balance of power. Clemente Mastella was at mob associates wedding.
Mr Mastella was questioned this year at Italys National Anti-mafia Directorate in Rome about his relations with Francesco Campanella, who confessed to helping the mafias then-fugitive boss, Bernardo Provenzano. In July 2000 Mr Mastella was a witness at Mr Campanellas wedding. Mr Mastella was not a suspect and has not been accused of any offence.
Mr Campanella, who sat on the town council of Villabate, a mob-ridden town outside Palermo, has confessed to providing vital assistance to the mafias fugitive boss of bosses, Provenzano, who was seized last month after 42 years on the run. In 2001 he used his official position to supply Cosa Nostras top godfather with an identity card so he could travel abroad for medical treatment.
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