In one of the many interviews that Manuel Adorni gave, after the scandal over his wife’s trip within the official delegation to New York, he said that “it probably doesn’t make sense” for Bettina Angeletti to travel with him again, although without being able to guarantee it. This potential reflection not only refers to the political impact that the Government had due to Angeletti’s presence on the trip, but also to the personal impact suffered by Adorni himself. For the last ten days all eyes have been on him and his wife and the notorious economic leap that the Chief of Staff had began to attract attention.
During 2024, he left his apartment on Assembly Street in Parque Chacabuco, which he put up for sale at an estimated price of $290,000, and moved to another higher-class apartment with more meters in the same neighborhood, prioritizing proximity to his children’s school. But, in addition, deputy Marcela Pagano denounced that the Adorni family would have a house in the country Indio Cua Golf Club in Exaltación de la Cruz, in the northern area of Buenos Aires.
Before reaching public management, Adorni was what works quite well on television: an economics panelist with a sharp tone, a repeated face in studios, radio and networks, always ready for a quick retort and a spicy phrase. The arrival of Javier Milei to the government removed him from that place and put him in a much more sensitive one: first as spokesperson, then as Secretary of Communication and Media and later as Chief of Staff. In a short time he went from commenting on management to administering it and, therefore, to falling into the frivolous weaknesses of money and power.
To begin with, his wife began to have more work and increase her turnover, becoming an entrepreneur. Bettina Angeletti presents herself as a consultant and organizational coach. He has his own company, +Be, focused on leadership development, organizational transformation and consulting services for companies. According to Nic.ar records, the website masbe.com.ar appears in his name and was registered in May 2024, when Adorni was still Undersecretary of Spokesperson and Communication. One of its main clients is a company friendly to power, called Foggia Group, led by Marcelo Dionisio, a businessman who, according to the records of visits to the Casa Rosada to which NOTICIAS had access, is a regular visitor to the offices of Karina Milei and also Adorni. Dionisio has more than one reason to visit the Government House. The main one: she is the partner of Mara Gorini, Karina Milei’s best friend, who works with her in the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The Tecnópolis property is going through a 25-year tender that must be resolved this year and Dionisio is one of those interested in keeping the land, with the intention of building an Arena stadium.
Furthermore, in the customer section of its website, companies with strong contracts with the State are mentioned: the Datco Group, for example, is a supplier to organizations such as ARCA, AySA, Banco Central, Banco Nación, Aerolíneas Argentinas and Trenes Argentinos. Another client is National Shipping SA, a historic YPF contractor, according to the complaint by deputy Marcela Pagano.
Pagano’s complaint also points back in time, when Adorni was Secretary of Communication and Media. In May 2025, it promoted a bidding process for the contracting of mass messaging services: 36 million SMS, 600 million emails and 12 million automated calls for State agencies. The contract was awarded on December 30, 2025 to the company ATX SA for an amount of $3,650,226,300.
What the complaint indicates is that the three companies that participated (ATX SA, Area Tech SA and Movilgate SRL) would present cross-links: the president of ATX, Rubén Santiago Ward, would have worked with the president of Area Tech, Pablo Javier Casal, until 2022; Both companies and a third (Lugalu SA) share or shared an address at the same address in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Patricios. According to the judicial presentation, this would configure a possible simulation of competition: formally different but materially linked companies, designed to give the appearance of plurality in a tender that would have been conditioned in advance.
Agenda. Adorni had an original plan for his trip to New York: on Saturday, March 7, they were all going to travel to New York. He on the presidential plane and his wife on a regular plane. They would meet there. But the agenda changed and the trip was brought forward due to an activity with Donald Trump, so they all traveled to Miami on the presidential plane. On Sunday the 8th they continued towards New York and visited the tomb of the Lubavitch Rebbe. There the photo was seen in which Angeletti was next to Adorni and the storm broke out. According to the initial frustrated plan, she would take advantage of spending a few days in New York, where she supposedly had a work agenda, although she participated in several official activities. Argentina Week would end on Wednesday the 11th and on Thursday there was only an activity with governors, and then everything was ready to spend a few days walking through one of the most important cities in the world. None of this could come to fruition because the scandal had escalated to unimaginable levels and Adorni said he was going to “break down,” and he had to add an extra activity on Friday to justify his presence in the United States. He visited the stock exchange of that country, where he was received by the person in charge of institutional relations and given a tour of the premises with the consul in New York Gerardo Díaz Bartolomé. On Saturday he had to return. Slouched.
