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You forgot buying judges and (financial) police officers

• Ekaros 3y ago
  How can you ever trust judicial system when even the top people got their position from the rotten people... Why would any of them bite the hand that got them their position and possibly in future a higher position. Everyone is corrupted and rotten.
  • gpderetta 3y ago
    To be fair many of those he surrounded with, including his second in command Dell'Utri, did end up in jail with extremely serious convictions like Mafia conspiracy and corruption of Judges. But he personally managed to change enough laws, delay trials, and keep enough plausible deniability to avoid the charges to stick.
  • richardfey 3y ago
    I think it's more subtle than that: there's an already highly inefficient system in place and then delaying or swaying procedures becomes easier and less traceable. This is where cronyism flourishes; but it's far from a hierarchical direct favour relationship and more akin to a network or web.