The government resigned to cut communication with Diego Spagnuolo in the last hours of Wednesday 20. At that time, the scandal that had unleashed the filtration of audios where he denounced a system of corruption in the disability area that splashed Karina Milei was already a national news. The last attempts of the Executive’s dome were in vain: in messages that justice will find in the telephone of the former lawyer of the president different popes of the ruling party intimidated him to accept the guilt of the situation, to present everything as the error of a feverish imagination, to ask for forgiveness for affecting the reputation of the officials to whom he would have been meaningless already to give his renunciation.
For those hours Spagnuolo was exactly the same as the state in which he was when he closed this edition: in shock, but with some short moments of lucidity, abductions of consciousness where he tries to activate everything he learned after receiving in the Faculty of Law of the UBA. It is that “hell” that he is living, as he tells the few he continues to speak, did not start a week ago, although that was where he began to burn. For a year he has been thinking how to give an end to his experience in the public function, without implying ending in jail. That time that was his great fear, although he now became worse. Much worse.
Today, held at his home in Pilar, with his brother’s only company, a criminal lawyer, directly fears for his life. However, aware that any movement that makes will have a judicial impact in the immediate future, refused to accept what they asked for the ruling party. He did not want to present his resignation and the government ended up expelling him, the beginning of a defensive policy that was going to end with Javier Milei himself accusing him of “liar.”
A week later, Spagnuolo kept thinking the same thing: that he has nothing to hide and that the culprits are others. To the tumbos he found himself in the middle of his worst nightmare. Now, held in Pilar, the former Andis official tries to maintain strict silence, waiting for new audios to be filtered or that a formal imputation by justice arrives. In fact, you are not even following the news or social networks, as a way of isolation from the scandal. For now he lives in a world of Paronia. They fear they are spying on it. He also fears for his life because he speculates that, the worst of the scenarios, it would be convenient for the government and the opposition: some for what would eventually leave to count before justice, and others because only the scandal would grow.
Spagnuolo was surprised that the only ones who tried to contact him, on behalf of the ruling party, were the lawyer Santiago Viola and Jorge Anzorreguy, the son of the former leader the Menemist Side. I expected some more political contact, someone who, to put it in Creole, could negotiate with him some kind of peaceful exit. The presence of these lawyers – the second, contacted by this magazine, denies this version – disturbed it. In these hours he points against two people. One is Fernando Cerimedo, the consultant, owner of the daily right and one of the founders of Lla. He is convinced that it is he who recorded it, angry after he displaced his wife, Natalia Basil, of the organism from the Andis. “Natalia wanted to eat the position to Diego, and he at one time got tired and asked Javier to give her the endorsement to throw her away,” they say close. Also, in that line, they focus on Daniel Garbellini, former National Director of Access to Health Services, whom he points out in the filtered audios as the man who effectively raised for Karina Milei and Lule Menem. A friend close to Spagnuolo shows a date of a visit to Casa Rosada: on May 23, where he met for more than two hours with the president’s sister. In seven days the government appointed Garbellini in the Andis.
The former head of the Andis expects, at the close of this edition, that justice advances on it. All those who knew him do not imagine that he is a man who will die for the Milei cause, much less that he is prepared to spend a long season in jail. “He is just a labor lawyer,” they say to define it. That is, today, one of his problems: unlike other political scandals that happened in Argentine history, Spagnuolo is someone who came to previous experience or a nourished contact agenda in the red circle. Nor, in the course of this government, it was embedded behind either of the two sides of the internal. “Diego’s problem is that he has no network. He is totally alone,” says one of his friends. However, this man alone, a lawyer of the pile, today has the national government against the strings.
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