He went as he had lived. What for Robert Ruggiero, Lawyer, toga of VIPs and Milan to drink, life was also the secular, of parties and clubs. Born in Molfetta 80 years ago, yesterday he was in a restaurant in Prati and down there he was struck by an illness. Tanned twelve months a year, great storyteller of anecdotes that revealed the backgrounds of the brilliant evenings, he was the protagonist of the processes that made history. His customers were primarily his friends. From Franco Califano, who witnessed the number one scandal when he was still young in the 1970s, to Maurizio Costanzo, who hosted it on Alberto Castagna’s show.
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Above all, however, the lawyer succeeded in acquitting Ferdinand Mach von Palmstein six times. The financier, right arm of Bettino Craxi and mastermind of the PSI had been arrested in Paris and was one of the targets of the pool: Di Pietro claimed he was Mister X. And Ruggiero had also defended Craxi himself, only to then become the lawyer of the inaugurated foundation.
Among his clients are Alberto Quinzi, owner of one of the most famous clubs in the capital, Quinzi and Gabrieli, a stone’s throw from the Pantheon, involved in an investigation into drugs and high-class prostitution, and Francesca Zenobi, who had accused Pocahontas of the parliamentary udc Cosimo trade in apples. But he wasn’t just defending VIPs and employees.
Roberto Ruggiero was also the historical attorney for Fabiola Moretti, the former Scarlet Primrose of the Magliana band, as well as a civil party in the Costa Concordia sinking trial.
And to defend his clients, he’d also ended up in prison on the gun-trafficking hypothesis. Twenty-seven days behind bars by order of Judge Carlo Palermo, for which he was then compensated. As the recipient of a plaque of honor from the Bar Association, he had chosen to leave the classroom. The lawyer Franco Merlino recalls: “He was a master: an example of commitment and tenacity. But he was also a great man who knew how to smile at life».
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