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That year, however, a massive political bribery scandal in Italy, dubbed Tangentopoli, brought down the country's ruling class and froze public-works projects for years.
No Italian Job 2008
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He was thus the incumbent president less than a year later when the so-called Tangentopoli "Bribesville" scandal exploded, which led to the speedy collapse of both the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties.
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The so-called Tangentopoli or Bribesville investigations were triggered on February 17, 1992, when Milan prosecutors arrested Mario Chiesa, a close associate of Craxi and director of an old people's home, as he was pocketing a bribe from a cleaning firm.
Gates of Vienna 2010
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But Craxi, a symbol of the "Tangentopoli" (Bribesville) bribery scandals in the 1990s which toppled the old guard, is as divisive in death as he was in life.
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The rules of the game were shattered in the early 1990s by "Tangentopoli" or Bribesville --
CNN.com 2009
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As the " Tangentopoli " "kickback city" scandal widened, every major party crumbled.
Rome After Silvio Alexander Lee 2011
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The story seems a bit similar to how the old Christian Democratic Party dominated postwar Italy, before falling apart in the Tangentopoli scandal.
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"We're in a transitional phase, and we've been in one since 1993," says Cristian Vaccari, a political scientist at the University of Bologna, referring to the apex of the Tangentopoli bribery scandal.
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Most of the country's ruling class had been toppled in a sweeping bribery scandal called Tangentopoli.
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When the Tangentopoli investigation led to the arrest of so many politicians in 1992, people looked forward to an era of honest government.
A Nation Spent Tim Parks 2008
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