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The truth is, if [Silvio Berlusconi] hadn't gone into politics, if he hadn't founded Forza Italia, today we would be under a bridge or in prison on mafia charges. There was no way we were going to win an acquittal in the Mondadori case.

— Fedele Confalonieri

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