In February 2021, when Manuel Adorni was just an economist with an active Twitter account and without public office, he wrote the following: “Criminal who steals, criminal who has to go to prison for life. The end.”
Four years later, Adorni is Chief of Staff of the Nation and faces a accusation for alleged illicit enrichment. The case investigates properties that would not have been declared in its DDJJ – among them a house in a country in Exaltación de la Cruz in the name of his wife—, an apartment in Caballito deeded for less than its real value, and private plane trips whose financing is under scrutiny. The prosecutor noted a “disagreement” between his declared assets and their effective standard of living.
The context reactivated an increasingly frequent practice on the networks: tweet archeology. Users and journalists track officials’ accounts in search of past statements that contrast with their present. In the case of Adorni, the material is generous. In addition to the tweet about thieves and life imprisonment, other archive messages circulate in which the now Chief of Staff demanded transparency, condemned public spending, and celebrated corrupt officials being “held accountable”. They all have a resonance today that they didn’t have at the time.
The irony did not go unnoticed. “End”Adorni closed in that 2021 tweet, with the forcefulness of someone who does not consider nuances. Today his lawyers work at Comodoro Py to prevent that same forcefulness from being applied to his own file.
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