Is Silvio Berlusconi related to the mafia?

Answer 1

On 8 april 2008, a few days before the elections, Silvio Berlusconi confirms that the life sentenced gangster Vittorio Mangano, who worked several years as ‘horse keeper’ at the villa of Berlusconi, was a hero.

In his last interview(19 may 1992), judge Paolo Borsellino described Vittorio Mangano not as a little fish but as the mafia bridge(‘il ponte’) to north Italy.
This interview has only been seen on one satellite television channel so in fact nobody in Italy has noticed it(video and written version)
Borsellino talks about the fact that the mafia is very interested to invest their money in the business world and tries to penetrate.
Furthermore he mentions that there are more running investigations involving Mangano, Berlusconi and senator Dell’Utri (Berlusconi’s right hand and co-founder of Forza Italia and several times convicted).

Four days after this interview, his colleague judge Giovanni Falcone dies in one of the most brutal bomb attacks ever.
100 meters of highway were destroyed in the ‘strage di Capaci’.
Two months later, Paolo Borsellino dies in again another brutal bomb attack.
A hero was murdered…
’Who has fear dies every day. Who has not, dies only once…’ was his belief.

Borsellino and Falcone were murdered in full ‘ mani pulite ’ time.
In that period Silvio Berlusconi decided to dedicate himself to politics and the bombings stopped...

Together with Marcello Dell'Utri(Convicted until 9 years for external association with the mafia) he raised Forza Italia and won the elections a
few months later.
Some party members of Silvio Berlusconi have declared explicitly that the raising of a new party would be the only escape to keep them out of jail.

Berlusconi's party 'people of freedom' is now the biggest fraction in the European parliament

Vittorio Mangano,an impressing curriculum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Mangano

Marcello Dell'Utri, an impressing career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Dell'Utri

The last interview of Judge Paolo Borsellino
http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/archive.php?eid=1207http://www.disinformazione.it/intervistaborsellino.htm

The strage di Capaci:100 meters of highway blown up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capaci_massacre.jpg

Answer 2

The origin of Silvio Berlusconi's fortune has never been
clarified. The legend that he's a self made man is as credible as the internet site that wants to give him the nobel price for peace(http://silvioperilnobel.sitonline.it/) and that is probably financed with his money

The Milanese bank, “Banca Rasini”,  was cited by Michele Sindona, as well as in numerous official documents drawn up by magistrates investigating the mafia,  as the principle bank used by the the mafia for laundering dirty money in the north of Italy.
Included among the Banca Rasini’s clients were Pippo Calò, Totò Riina and  Bernardo Provenzano, during the years in which they formed the “cupola” (leadership) of the mafia.

In those same years a certain Signor Luigi Berlusconi, father of Silvio Berlusconi,  was employed at the Banca Rasini, first as a clerk, then as “Procurator with signing rights”, and finally as Manager.

During the 1970s, a certain Signor Silvio Berlusconi registered twenty-three holding companies with the Banca Rasini as “Hairdresser’s and Beautician’s”...

For more information

Recent Italian history(1990-2008): Italian politics, Silvio Berlusconi and the mafia
http://matucana.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/recent-italian-history1990-2008-italian-politics-silvio-berlusconi-and-the-mafia/

2009:A small report of one year of 'christian democratic' governance: Welcome in the world of Silvio Berlusconi...
http://matucana.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/berlusconi-epp-evp-epd-media-european-elections-mafia-fascism-democracy/

Silvio Berlusconi:European democracy has never been in bigger danger…
http://matucana.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/silvio-berlusconi-europe-democracy-media-mafia/

Help Europe:Silvio Berlusconi is taking over the European media
http://matucana.wordpress.com/europe-silvio-berlusconi-media-mafia-maffia-democracy-fascism/

Silvio Berlusconi and the 2008 ‘democratic’ election campaign
http://matucana.wordpress.com/silvio-berlusconi-democracy-media-mafia-europe/