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"Maierovitch, a man with a soft voice and owl-like features, became a prominent figure in the early 1980s when he collaborated with Giovanni Falcone in his successful efforts to track down fugitive mafia members. Together, the two convinced Tommaso Buscetta to return to Italy and become a state witness in the so-called maxi-trial of the Sicilian mafia leadership. In January 1992, thanks to his testimony, some 350 mafia bosses were convicted. Falcone and his colleague, magistrate Paolo Borsellino, are the titans of the anti-mafia struggle worldwide. They were assassinated in Sicily two months apart in 1992, shortly after the maxi-trial verdict was confirmed, and their deaths shook and ultimately dismantled the Italian political system. Both had (rightly) assumed that the most important figures in the Sicilian mafia enjoyed the protection of the highest political hierarchies in Rome. Maierovitch tells me about his dinners with Falcone and how they worked to protect the great turncoat Buscetta from possible murder or suicide. (He almost succeeded in attempting suicide while under the protection of the Brazilian judge.) At first, Maierovitch smiles as he remembers his Italian friend, but after a while he begins to shed silent tears: a fitting tribute to Falcone (after whom Maierovitch named his Institute for the Fight Against Crime), whose charisma and commitment to justice, in the face of Rome's corrupt ruling class, made him a popular hero throughout Italy and among all those who fight crime around the world."

"The vultures and hyenas that Giovanni knew, and that I also know, pounced on Falcone's corpse."

"He only talked about the Mafia. He never showed the slightest interest in my life. He never asked me where I came from, what I had studied, nothing at all. He was single-minded, which is where his proverbial efficiency and professionalism came from."

"Bruno [Trentin] said to me, “Let's invite Giovanni to dinner, we have to celebrate.” He accepted. We talked about current political events, South Tyrolean irredentism, Mahler, who had had a house there, and Giovanni shrank into his chair: he was bored. At one point, I mentioned a news story about Stefano Bontate's son, and at that moment he suddenly perked up, sitting up straight in his chair."

"Falcone is praised without being studied. Anyone who talks about the Mafia mentions him, often inappropriately. When he was alive, he was very lonely. The magistrates who supported him could be counted on the fingers of one hand, while most criticized him for his alleged media protagonism."

"Alfredo Morvillo, the magistrate brother of his wife Francesca, introduced us in 1981. We were at the Palace of Justice in Palermo, where we had a coffee. We chatted and immediately hit it off. From then on, we saw each other regularly: at least a couple of times a week, we would meet for dinner with our wives."

"The corpse of Falcone was pounced upon by jackals and hyenas whom Giovanni knew and whom I also know."

"(About the Milan judiciary during Mani pulite investigation) A judiciary that must be protected from any attempt to delegitimize it, in order to maintain its prerogative as an institution committed to restoring legality."

"The appointment was set for early afternoon on Friday, May 22, at Ciampino airport. Falcone, as was often the case, would give me a ride to Palermo on the government plane."

"Giuseppe Ayala, Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno. I miei anni con Falcone e Borsellino, Mondadori, 2008. ISBN 9788804580683"

"(During the commemoration of Falcone in the main hall of the Palace of Justice in Milan}} You killed Giovanni Falcone. With your indifference. With your criticism... You slandered him. You distrusted him. And now some of you even have the nerve to attend his funeral..."

"Two months ago, I was in Palermo at an ANM meeting. I will never forget that day. The kindest words, especially from the left, from Md, were these: Falcone sold himself to political power. w:it:Mario Almerighi called him a political enemy. Now, I say that it is one thing to criticize the Superprosecutor's Office. It is quite another, as the CSM, intellectuals, and the so-called anti-Mafia front have done, to say that Giovanni was no longer free from political power. Giovanni was prevented from conducting mafia trials in his own city. So he chose the only possible path, the Ministry of Justice, to ensure that his project would be realized: a unified structure against the mafia. And it was a revolution."

"I can distinguish between right and wrong. In this, I am presumptuous."

"There has been misuse of telephone wiretapping by the judiciary, namely by public prosecutors' offices at the national level."

"Saying that the 'ndrangheta has logistical bases in Lombardy is not a new discovery. It could and should have been said twenty years ago. There are reports by some courageous and far-sighted police officers that seem prophetic. A 1983 report from the Vigevano police station already contained all the information. The police commissioner had understood the mafia system and organization long before our investigations. But the judiciary at the time did not understand those ideas, which were clearly revolutionary for the time. And so, from 1983 to today, a mafia family has been able to grow and increase its criminal capacity."

"[...] the Gomorra series warns us against evil, pushes us against a wall, gives us no excuses (after all, there is the good cop, the anti-Mafia prosecutor, the anti-Mafia priests, etc.), and forces us to look inside ourselves. Saviano (and the authors who wrote the screenplay with him) understood that only by starting from absolute evil, from the absence of good, can the authentic motive for renewal arise. He invites us to look with eyes free from preconceptions and false hypocrisy, namely that the reality of the south, of Naples, of Secondigliano, of Scampia... is also that represented by Gomorra. Urban decay does not originate from the series, it pre-exists. We have been accustomed to seeing the hairstyles of Genny and the other young characters for years, not only in the neighborhoods and districts of Scampia, but also in the North, in America, as well as the actors' clothing: Gomorra reproduces reality, far from any risk of emulation. Depicting evil does not mean smearing the south. On the contrary, the spirit of the series is precisely that, I repeat, to depict evil in all its facets in order to achieve renewal. [...]That's why I'm on the side of Gomorra, which investigates evil in order to overcome it. I am grateful to Saviano for trying, and I am grateful to Stefano Sollima (and the other directors) and the actors who have taken on an immense responsibility and done so with awareness and talent. All of them have shown courage that cannot be taken for granted: they have brought evil to the stage and left it up to us to decide where good lies."

"(About the Silvio Berlusconi prostitution trial) Absurdly, in this situation, the non-EU minor [Ruby] – a person who, I repeat, is intelligent and cunning, with that particular “Eastern” cunning of her origins – exploits, manages to exploit her non-EU status."

"There is a magistrate, a charming red-haired woman who was a friend of Giovanni Falcone, who after the attacks in Capaci and Via D'Amelio went to Sicily and had the perpetrators of the two massacres arrested: Ilda Boccassini. A tenacious woman who stops at nothing, she has a single goal: to ensure that justice prevails, as Judge Falcone did in Palermo in the maxi trial against the Mafia."

"I do not believe this would’ve ever happened in a more affluent area."

"Check out this racist article referring to me speaking about the Westar poles issue in our community by Chimpmania.com"

"I think you need sunshine to expose people like that."

"Duane Howard - Uncle"

"Isaac Robinson-Smith as Rick"

"Debra Wilson as Denise"

"Alison Haislip as Sandra"

"Terri Douglas"

"Robin Atkin Downes"

"Matthew Yang King"

"Piotr Michael"

"Andrew Morgado"

"Ashley Peldon"

"Michael Ralph"

"Fred Tatasciore"

"Mike Vaughn"

"Matthew Wood"

"“I fear for my life. I have not given my statement to IG Prisons. I confirm that I have not spoken to anyone.”"

"“I have forgiven all those people who have hurt me during this process and I would say that one must learn how to forget people.”"

"“I was successful, little did I know that women aren’t allowed to. Ambition is a man’s domain after all.”"

"My life crashed, unexpectedly, one morning in 2015. I was accused of the most heinous crime there can be... My character was assassinated by people who did not know me. My chiffon sarees and body were the subjects of news. People who had never known me had a hot take on what I did and liked in life, and I was labelled a bad mother."

"I am not going to go back to jail."

"More than men, women tried to pull me down. After the first chargesheet came out, people from all corners of our social life descended upon me with their claws out."

"“I am going to get acquitted in this case because I haven’t done it.”"

"“So many people asked how I didn’t cry during the documentary. I will cry in my own private moments. I cannot kick butt and sit and cry simultaneously. Why should I show my tears to you? I will not.”"

"“Whatever people feel about me is irrelevant. Even at the cost of being called a narcissist I’ll do what makes me happy. But somewhere, up there, the big guy is doing karmic justice for me.”"

"“When a man makes it big, do you say that he is a social climber? You don’t say that. How does a man get from nowhere to becoming a CEO? I’m sure he has done something. I don’t know whether he slept with his boss. I don’t know whether he did whatever he had to do, or whether he stabbed his boss and then became the CEO. I don’t know about that. Maybe it was just his capabilities. But it is very, very difficult for society to accept the same for a woman.”"

""I was married thrice but fell in love only twice”."

"" “My first relationship was more of an arrangement for situations and circumstances that I was thrown into. But I have been very clear that I was definitely never in love,”"

""Social media can be a dark place if you let trolls control your narrative.”"

"I've not been the perfect mom, but that does not make me a murderer."

"“I am convinced about one thing: Sheena is definitely alive, and I know she’s roaming around somewhere.”"