The collaborator of justice Nino Lo Giudice was definitively sentenced to 5 years in prison for blade against the magistrate Alberto Cisterna. The Court of Cassation has in fact declared the appeal filed by the lawyers of the repentant inadmissible, thus confirming the sentence that had been issued in November 2024 by the Court of Appeal of Florence. The trial was celebrated in the capital of Tuscany after the Supreme Court, in 2023, had canceled with postponement the acquittal sentence of Lo Giudice who had been issued by the Court of Appeal of Perugia, who had reformed the first instance sentence.
Lo Giudice, in 2011, during two interrogations in front of the then prosecutor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Pignatone and the deputy prosecutor Beatrice Ronchi, “glued Alberto Cisterna – according to what the judges of the Court of Appeal of Florence – of the crime of corruption in judicial documents wrote in the sentence, knowing him innocent, reporting that he had learned from his brother Luciano Lo Giudice who had paid to the Cisterna. To the National Anti -Mafia Prosecutor’s Office, a large sum of money so that their brother Maurizio Lo Giudice, seriously ill and restricted at the Milan prison ‘Opàrà, was granted home detention “.
Following the declarations of the repentant, Cisterna had been registered in the register of suspects but, after “capillary investigations that had concerned the life and finances of the magistrate”, his position had been stored because it was excluded that “he had never received sums of illicit money or even only unjustified by anyone”. According to the Court of Appeal of Florence, moreover, Lo Giudice “lied knowing that he lies”. In the sentence that has become definitive, it is stated that the repentant has slandered cistern, now in service to the general prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, “in order to obtain the double advantage of consolidating his position as a useful subject to the other investigators and to regulate the accounts with a magistrate who had arrested him previously. Saying, accusing and portraying, bending the reality of the facts to his personal desire for revenge, and in order to profit from the state “.
Finally, in the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Florence, it is stated that Lo Giudice has “a way of sneaking” and, “to credit himself as a useful collaborator and to profit from the benefits he did not hesitate to slander a man of the institutions, with a mirrored career, throwing him into a media chopper, who destroyed his reputation and profession”.