Anti-graft czar Raffaele Cantone
said Friday that Rome's ATAC public transport company spent 2.5
million euros on outside legal counsel in 2011-2015, in spite of
the fact that it has 21 in-house lawyers.
Cantone has sent Rome's accident-prone, financially
troubled public transport operator a letter requesting board
meeting transcripts and a detailed list of in-house lawyers
currently on ATAC's books.
The letter is addressed to current ATAC President Roberto
Grappelli, Rome Commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca and former
transportation councillor Stefano Esposito, who brought the
situation to Cantone's attention in the first place.
Ex-mayor Ignazio Marino, who was recently forced to quit by
his own Democratic Party (PD), raised hackles when he said last
month that he would seek private partners for chronically
troubled ATAC.
Five of its former executives were indicted earlier this
year on charges of nepotistic hiring and abuse of office.
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