Word: caglio
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...spreading "false and adulterated news" about her death. To the millions gobbling up each day's revelations of debauchery in high places, the fate of Wilma and Muto seemed of secondary importance compared to the speculations swirling about the "Marchese" Ugo Montagna, stage-struck Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, his onetime mistress, and Piero Piccioni, son of Italy's Foreign Minister...
...Worried, she went to Rome's district attorney, Dr. Angelo Sigurani. She told him all she knew. She told him that she suspected Ugo Montagna of running a narcotics ring, of his frequent trips to visit the commanders of such ports as Genoa and Naples. Said La Caglio: "Sigurani listened very carefully, patted me on the shoulder and advised me to keep out of these things, and the sooner the better." Two weeks ago Dr. Sigurani tried to get the case dropped because investigation showed "the complete absence of a basis for any new charges." La Caglio wrote anxiously...
Enter the Carabinièri. Up to then, the charges had been the word of Anna Maria Caglio, a woman scorned, against that of the wealthy Marchese Montagna. But now the court demanded the carabinièri report. It was a bombshell...
...wealth, he paid taxes on a declared income of only about $1,000 a year, little more than he was said to have given La Caglio each month. One of Montagna's partners in business, said the report, was the son of Giuseppe Spataro, vice president of the Christian Democratic Party. The report also confirmed that Piccioni's son was a close friend of Montagna, as were the Vatican physician and other lay Vatican and government officials...
Such was the man who moved in Rome's most select circles, who addressed the national chief of police Tommaso Pavone with the intimate "tu." Many of those who originally doubted La Caglio's story changed their minds. The Communists promptly trumpeted the fact that Scelba and Montagna had both been witnesses at the wedding of Spataro's son two years ago, pointed out that Scelba himself had appointed Pavone chief of police...