Alessandro Maiorano: Salvatore Baiardo and Alessandro Maiorano set to take the Italian publishing scene by storm with The Truths of Salvatore Baiardo, the new book due out at Christmas 2023. But who are these two characters? Baiardo needs no introduction. Factotum of the powerful Graviano family, Piedmontese but with Sicilian origins. A man of gentle and polite manners, he has served five years in prison for aiding and abetting and money laundering on behalf of the Graviano brothers, now again in the crosshairs of the Florence prosecutor’s office, which, under the signature of the assistant prosecutor of the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office, Dr. Luca Tescaroli, has called for his arrest for the whole issue related to the alleged photos between Berlusconi and dell’Utri, where today baiardo is under investigation for slander, having covered up precisely the former knight Berlusconi and Marcello dell’Utri.
Baiardo also represents a real-life cross-section of well-known Italian affairs. For years he allegedly aided the Graviano fugitives, and according to some magistrates, the former Omegna ice cream vendor still moves and speaks on behalf of the powerful Sicilian bosses. Returning to the national spotlight with his prediction (later fulfilled) of the arrest of the boss of bosses Matteo Messina Denaro, he gained national and international attention after his participation in various programs on La7, hosted by Massimo Giletti, where Baiardo himself allegedly spoke on many topics concerning well-known names in Italy.
