Oops, does the Mafia support me? (Berlusconi Stories V)

In what seems as a nasty attempt to get the Mafia to vote for Berlusconi, "Mafia connection" convicted key ally Marcello dell'Utri has made a promise to "rectify" the italian history books (which he accused as being leftist) and include the right wing heroes of Italy. On these list of "heroes" is the now dead Vittorio Mangano, former stable master at the Berlosconi estate in Milan, and convicted of a Mafia-linked murder

The judge (when convicting Mangano) said that Mangano had worked as a link between the Cosa Nostra (Mafia) and the industries in north Italy.

Marcello dell'Utri is also convicted of having mafia connections, but he is still waiting for the appeal case to come through (and has been waiting since 2004). In the mean time, even if the sentence is 9 years of prison, he remains a senator and runs a network of Forza Italia clubs, as well as serving as one of Mr Berlusconi’s closest advisers.

Berlusconi has avoided the subject of the mafia, but did use some of the same rhetorics when commenting on magistrates who have investigated him 11 times for alleged corruption. He suggested that they were left wing, and needed "regular mental health checks".