"On 21 February, four days after the arrest of Chiesa, I was visited by Ugo Finetti, vice-president of the Lombardy Region and a leading figure in Milanese socialism. He was accompanied by Paolo Berlusconi, who was not yet the editor of Il Giornale (he would become so on 16 July: and for this reason, on 20 January, Montanelli had written to Silvio informing him that the announced transfer of ownership would not alter the agreements on the independence of Il Giornale and its editor, which had been made with Silvio and “always respected”). Finetti was pale, Paolo seemed annoyed that the various appeals made to me by Fininvest representatives, asking that Il Giornale not disrupt the group's relations with the PSI, continued to fall on deaf ears. Finetti has a folder with articles from our Milanese news section, underlined with a pea green highlighter. He gives them to me so that I can challenge my fellow reporters. “The judges of the Public Prosecutor's Office,” Finetti explains to me, “make files with newspaper clippings, just like this one: then, when something happens, they find already abundant documentation and dig out what they want.” Paolo Berlusconi cuts to the chase: “We have to work with the institutions, the Region, the Municipality, the Fair, so we have to be able to maintain good relations”."